Wonderful, wonderful Turks and Caicos

Advantages: Turquoise seas, white sands, fabulous hotel, food to die for
Disadvantages: You get fat! Heat can be overpowering. Advantages far outweigh any drawbacks

...How do I start? My brother got married here in 2001, my Mother, eager to attend paid for me to go with her. It was one of the most outstanding experiences of my life. We flew via the Bahamas where, when I went, there was a two hour stopover. Unfortunately we could not disembark there. Then we flew, fairly low, over a turquoise sea and small islands with white sandy beaches. Disembarkation at Turks and Caicos was quite strange, it is a fairly new resort. We exited the plane down steps on a very small runway - the wings overhung the grass. And boy, was it hot! Customs was not in an air conditioned part of the small airport buildings and I thought I might wilt! We were to stay in the Sandals resort, an oasis in somewhat of a desert. A taxi took us there, something of an experience as there are few cars and many quite mad...

Ann1eS 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Doing A bit of Work for the Turk

Advantages: It's free and It's easy
Disadvantages: You couls have hits rejected

...Over the past few weeks I've been scouring the internet, looking for different ways to make a bit of extra cash online. I must say, I have been rather busy and found some quite interesting things on my travels around the World Wide Web. It feels like I haven't written a review for ages, so please forgive me if my review appears a bit out of practice. I want to share my experience of working for Amazon Mechanical Turk with you, I hope it's of some help or interest to you. Amazon Mechanical Turk I found out about this by accident really, this wasn't what I was researching at the time but found myself drawn into reading about it and then things just progressed from there. I don't really know the history of the site, although I think it stared up in 2005, but to be honest, if your anything like me, you're not really bothered...

Myredpip 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Should You Work For The Turk?

Advantages: Varied tasks to chose from, Quick and reliable tracking of work and payments
Disadvantages: US-centric, Can only cash out via Amazon.com

...Amazon.com is now more than just a place to buy cheap books from, it seems. One of a suite of extra web services now offered by the internet giant, the Amazon Mechanical Turk was first launched in 2005 as a crowdsourcing marketplace - or to put it more bluntly, a place for people to post jobs they wanted doing, and for other people to do them in return for payment, a bit like a virtual job centre. In case you are wondering where the slightly unusual name of this service comes from, the Mechanical Turk is named after a famous 18th century hoax. The original Mechanical Turk was a chess-playing machine made up of a wooden cabinet at which an automaton dressed in Turkish costume sat, with the mechanism appearing to be able to play a strong game of chess against human opponents (which it usually won) and solve challenging chess puzzles that...

Collingwood21 01.01.1970 · Read review
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