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Struth! Will the Real Phil Campbell Please Stand Up?

Struth! Will the Real Phil Campbell Please Stand Up?

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that when fifteen men sat down to dinner in Alabama in America’s south-east at the weekend, there was no fear about forgetting the names of those around them. Because every one of them was named Phil […]

Struth! Megaliner moves in

Struth! Megaliner moves in

  STRUTH !     IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Australia is to get its first-ever “megaliner” to be based here for a whole cruise season: the 138,000-tonne Voyager of the Seas that’s the length of three football fields will call Sydney “home” […]

Struth! Megaliner moves in

Struth! Megaliner moves in

  STRUTH !     IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Australia is to get its first-ever “megaliner” to be based here for a whole cruise season: the 138,000-tonne Voyager of the Seas that’s the length of three football fields will call Sydney “home” […]

Struth! Where airliners go to die

Struth! Where airliners go to die

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that Alice Springs has been ear-marked to become home to the first major “aircraft boneyard” outside the USA. It will be similar to those in the deserts of Arizona and California where old planes that have […]

Struth! Where airliners go to die

Struth! Where airliners go to die

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that Alice Springs has been ear-marked to become home to the first major “aircraft boneyard” outside the USA. It will be similar to those in the deserts of Arizona and California where old planes that have […]

Struth! Titanic plans fetch small fortune

Struth! Titanic plans fetch small fortune

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a huge 10-metre long plan of the Titanic that was used at the official enquiry in 1912 into the ship’s sinking, has sold at auction in England for an extraordinary GBP220,000 (AU$340,000.) It was bought […]

Struth! Titanic plans fetch small fortune

Struth! Titanic plans fetch small fortune

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a huge 10-metre long plan of the Titanic that was used at the official enquiry in 1912 into the ship’s sinking, has sold at auction in England for an extraordinary GBP220,000 (AU$340,000.) It was bought […]

Struth! Empty Cigar Box worth thousands

Struth! Empty Cigar Box worth thousands

STRUTH !     IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that for years Hilary Mee dusted it, moved it, sometimes wondered about it, but simply considered it one of the family’s many accumulated antiques and oddities. But ‘It’ has now earned her an unexpected […]

Struth! Empty Cigar Box worth thousands

Struth! Empty Cigar Box worth thousands

STRUTH !     IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that for years Hilary Mee dusted it, moved it, sometimes wondered about it, but simply considered it one of the family’s many accumulated antiques and oddities. But ‘It’ has now earned her an unexpected […]

STRUTH! Hotels help clean up with used soap

STRUTH! Hotels help clean up with used soap

STRUTH !    IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says an organisation in America is asking hotels in the country to give it the nearly one-million bars of soap that are only partly-used by guests every day. Orlando-based Clean the World Foundation is a […]