Advantages: Brand new caravans that are well kept. Disadvantages: As with all caravans a little on the pricey side.
Apologies in advance, this is long review!
After seeing a report on my local news the other night I thought I would review the one thing that, over the last 5-6 years of my life has been a constant, come rain or shine, recession or boom we have visited and stayed at this particular place as our holiday home of choice.
The particular report I was referring to earlier, was the fact that out of all the poor companies in my local area (I live in the Midlands, we are one of the worst hit areas for redundancy?s), the caravan companies were flourishing.
Now as I have already stated, we (myself, my husband, my two children and various other members of my family, depending who is available on holiday week!), have stayed at this particular caravan site for a while.
The caravan site in question is ?Tomlinsons caravan and leisure park ...
Advantages: Plenty of space and surprisingly quiet setting Disadvantages: Outside the town so you'll need transport to get around
On a group tour of Iran in 2006 we spent two nights at the Caravan, a large hotel located a few miles outside the ancient desert city of Yazd. The Caravan is close to a large but surprisingly quiet road and takes the form of lots of small white single-storey apartment-style chalets set back from the road and surrounded by gardens. Ciao have done a great job of finding a good photo that shows what these look like. There was nothing else anywhere near the hotel so be aware that once you are there, unless you have transport, there's nothing to see or do nearby.
Pulling off the highway from the airport, the driveway brought us past a large building that housed the reception, the restaurant and other shared facilities and then to the accommodation area. Our tour leader hopped off the bus to go and get the keys whilst we unloaded the bags ...
Advantages: Quite heavy hardback edition - would make good door stop Disadvantages: Truly awful rubbish
whether they sober up or not. Even a short way into the book it feels repetitive as someone gets drunk yet again and messes up some part of their/someone else's life. Alcoholism is perhaps one of the most repetitive and destructive addictions a family can harbour, but recreating this pattern in the prose doesn't work.
When it isn't going in circles, the narrative takes us on mind-bogglingly boring tours of the surroundings. Setting the scene is one thing, but Woodward seems to run with his factual mapping and it just isn't readable. Did I mention the mother also indulges in a spot of glue-sniffing. Your normal, every day middle-class set up? Not quite - all families have their dark sides, but this just doesn't sit right. The people populating the miserable house are so unbelievable it pains you to read each new sentence.
Now, I know some ...
