There’s a better way to see Venice than pounding the tourist-heavy pavements, and it involves a lesson in becoming a gondolier, writes Dianne Bortoletto.
Sir Elton John has headlined Glastonbury, duetted with Britney Spears and bankrolled Watford FC to the FA Cup final. Now, at 76, pop’s Rocketman has blasted.
Dunedin’s gulls are becoming such a menace to diners that one restaurant has armed its patrons with spray bottles. But amid claims from businesses that gulls.
Wang Ya-june didn t think much of the town where she washed up in the autumn of 1949. When she stepped off a Chinese Nationalist warship laden with refugees and injured and dead soldiers in Keelung on that rainy day, the port on the northern tip of Taiwan was just another Chinese city to her, just another place for seeking temporary refuge.