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Just 45 minutes from the raucous theme parks and gaudy casinos of Queensland's Gold Coast is one of Australia's best-kept secrets - and possibly its finest distiller. The Tamborine Mountain Distillery, tel: (61-7) 5545 3452, uses organically grown fruits and botanicals - such as raspberry, pink grapefruit, wild peppermint, melon, jaboticaba and lemon myrtle - to make an award-winning range of liqueurs, schnapps and eaux de vies sold in hand-painted bottles. Garrulous owner Michael Ward welcomes visitors like an old friend and explains the distillery's traditional methods (first developed by Benedictine monks). Despite the arrival...
...declines all honors offered him. "I am not a Commander of the British Empire," he says. "I will never be Sir David, Lord David or King David." He and his wife Jane spend most of the year in self-imposed exile in a compound on the rocky, wave-scoured coast of Cornwall, at the very southwestern tip of England, a surreal, almost uninhabited landscape of ancient stone circles, 12th century churches and sheep-dotted, wind-blasted meadows. He rises early to writeoften before 6and when he isn't writing, he takes long walks along the gray, fog-baffled cliffs...
...Fox’s banal “The Simple Life” has contributed anything to society, it’s making clear in a blunt way that a cultural divide exists between East Coast types and the “simple” folks of the West, Appalachia, Deep South...
Even apart from the images of the Rocky Mountain states which are likely to alienate East Coast dwellers—those of bumpkin right-wingers who are to the right of Barry Goldwater—it is undeniable that the vast majority of people here do not share a culture with the East Coast. My own freelanced education was something grossly different than a St. Albans one—characterized by reading books outside of the classroom and dabbling in local politics. Other Montanans who didn’t have the luxury of living in “the city?...
SEPTEMBER Hurricane Isabel (rocks East Coast on Sept...