Advantages: efficient, good service, free drinks
Disadvantages: no food served on board.

...A couple of years ago I was invited to attend a European convention in Slovenia. Quite excited I started looking for ways to get there. The year before, on my way back from Lanzarote, I was taken quite ill on the plane and spent a whole 4 hour journey on oxygen, later being met off the plane by an ambulance. I was not keen on flying so tried to find alternative ways of traveling. Coach seemed like a great idea, only *hint of sarcasm* 6 changes and only £300 odd quid. This idea quickly went out of the window as did the idea of train. The only other option I had was to fly… I looked up on many websites and found that the cheapest airline by far was 'Adria Airways'. Adria, what?… I hear you ask. ADRIA AIRWAYS Adria Airways is an airline based in Ljubljana in Slovenia. Adria Airways is the national... Read review

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Advantages: Great location, friendly staff
Disadvantages: Nowhere to plug in the hairdrier

...PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS HOTEL DOES NOT HAVE A SAUNA,POOL OR SPA - I COULDN'T SEND MY REVIEW UNLESS I TICKED SOME OF THESE BOXES! I must apologise for bringing the subject up again but it is due the usual combination of my itchy feet and my curiosity that I ended up at Edinburgh's Adria Hotel. You see, the previous evening I had been in Stirling to see my old chum Ian McNabb (ex-Icicle Works, remember them?) playing at the Tollbooth. Ian told me that he would be playing the next evening in Edinburgh and I decided that since I had enjoyed the show so much I would see him play again in Edinburgh - actually it was really because I did not want to miss anything - would Ian play different songs, who would be at the gig, these were questions I could not let lie. With more than a degree of reluctance my long-suffering partner (he went along... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful nature & cultural sights, extremely cheap.
Disadvantages: Increased security risks in northern Macedonia, rather poor infrastructure.

...LATEST UPDATE (27.06.2001): On June 26, 2001, both the British and German Foreign Offices have issued travel warnings for Macedonia. The FCO advises British Citizens who live in Macedonia to leave the country. Official information from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on the situation in Macedonia can be found at the following website: www.fco.gov.uk/travel/countryadvice.asp?MA Meanwhile Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Swissair and Adria Airways continue their services to Skopje, in addition to Adria Airways' daily flight from Ljubljana to Ohrid in southwestern Macedonia. Here is my personal advice on the situation: Overland travel in Macedonia is currently non-advisable, as most bus routes from Skopje to the south lead through the city of Tetovo, a battleground for fights between the Macedonian army and ethnic Albanian UCK... Read review

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Advantages: Solid storyline that ties up the loose ends of the series
Disadvantages: Need to have seen season 9 and 10 of the series to appreciate it

...Wow! What a surprise! Thanks Sky One for all the publicity surrounding the showing of this film (They were so busy publicising The Colour of Magic, that they almost forgot to mention this was on at all!!!!) I had been waiting for this to come out, Stargate - The Ark of Truth, nicely rounded off the Ori saga and would not have meant a lot to anyone as a stand alone product, you really needed to have seen Stargate SG-1 Series 9 and 10 to have appreciated this story line. The gang were all back (with the exception of Richard Dean Anderson). Starring Ben Browder (Cameron Mitchell), Michael Shanks(Dr. Daniel Jackson ), Amanda Tapping(Cpt. Samantha Carter), Christopher Judge (Teal'c) and Claudia Black (Vala Mal Doran) the story takes up at the end of Stargate SG-1, Season 10. The Ori are supposedly destroyed, their leader (Adria) ascended... Read review

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Advantages: Fun; Styling; Handling; Practicality
Disadvantages: Cost of car and extras

...(and any car from the original film) from Venice to Brighton (pictures will be added). We headed south, doing Edinburgh to Dover in one hop, with the car perfectly behaved on the motorway, and very happy to cruise along at 70mph. On the continent it proved itself a confident tourer at even faster speeds. Never missed a beat, 6000 miles added in the space of two weeks. We got to play on a couple of racetracks as well - the tight motorbike circuit at Adria had the car working beautifully, and the open space of Monza let you open out (before realising you were holding up the Cooper S Works behind). Reading all of this you might begin to wonder if there are ANY downsides at all - and unfortunately I have to say there are. The primary problem com