A thundering good all round ride - all round the mountain too!!

Advantages: unmissable ride that epitomises Disneyland Paris.
Disadvantages: The queues can be horrendous.

... BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN . Our first visit to Disneyland Paris was for the New Year 2001, my son was five (almost six) and was so excited. Even then he was obsessed with roller coasters and he had not stopped looking on the Disneyland website at Big Thunder Mountain - he couldn't wait to go on it. We knew he was tall enough for the ride so he wasn't going to be disappointed. I'll never forget the first day we walked through those gates at the entrance to Disneylad, it was - as they say - pure magic - we stepped into Main Street, USA - some of the first through the gates that day - and there were Minnie and Micky Mouse sat in an old American car. But we had no time to waste looking around Main Street as Jack had researched the park well and knew the way we had to go to get to Frontierland ( the home of Big Thunder...

oldchem 22.06.2009 · Read review
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Big Bear Mountain, Southern California

Advantages: Good prices for renting equipment, friendly staff, not too busy
Disadvantages: Snowboarders don't always take beginners into consideraton

...A Few Facts Big Bear Mountain is situated in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California and is an approximate two hours drive from Los Angeles. Big Bear Mountain sits 8805 feet above sea level and averages 100 inches of snowfall per year. It currently holds twelve mountain lifts: 2 High-speed quad chairs 1 quad chair 2 Triple chairs 4 Double chairs 3 Moving carpet lifts I visited Big Bear mountain on a school trip during February 2007. We stayed in a local hotel, The Northwoods Resort which was approximatley a ten minute drive from the mountain. Big Bear Mountain has a fairly large car park, but please note that during the heavy snowfall months, parking may be difficult. Bear Mountain offer rentals for all your skiing/snowboarding needs, which can be brought as a complete package (ie, skis/board and boots...

lozzy_lou178 16.02.2008 · Read review
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The Blue Mountains

Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: nothing

...This next review is on my time on The Blue Mountains National Park, located in Sydney Australia. A few friends and I had decided to hire a van and take a tour of the national park, as we had been recommended it by several people we had met along the way. I am usually a fan of national parks; it gives you a chance to take in the scenic view, it gives you a chance to relax and unwind if you have had a busy week, and you even get to see some wildlife. It?s a great experience, which allows you to camp overnight, whilst also have a magnificent driving experience. History & Park Info: The park covers 267,954 hectares, which included several mountains and rivers along the trek. The highest point of the park is Mount Werong (1,215 m), and there are some breathtaking views from the top. The area became a national park in 1932, and ever since...

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Mountain Language

Advantages: Clear and important political message
Disadvantages: Direct, dim, and disturbing

...Mountain Language (1988) By Harold Pinter (1930- ) Mountain Language is a very short one-act play by the English playwright Harold Pinter. The first scene shows a young woman and an elderly woman as they go to visit one of their relatives who was accused of speaking the forbidden mountain language. The older woman was bitten by one of the dogs in the prison, and yet the officer and sergeant torture her and her companion with stupid questions and harass the latter sexually. We see in the second scene that the elderly woman was in the prison to visit her son. The woman tries to talk to her son with the mountain language she is used to, for she doesn't know the capital language, yet the officer starts jabbing her with a stick. Still, she manages to tell her son that his wife and three kids are waiting for him. In the third scene...

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High up a mountain

Advantages: Great vocals. tracks
Disadvantages: One more ballad?

...**Introduction** This is the third instalment of my Yolanda Adams reviews after reviewing "Believe" and "Day By Day" which were two of the three Yolanda Adams albums I requested for review a couple of weeks ago. Mountain High Valley Low is the third and final instalment for now and was the the first of the three released in 2000 compared to 2001 for Believe and 2005 for Day by Day, So with the release of her latest album this year I decided to complete the three requested album reviews now. **Mountain High...Valley Low** This is Yolanda Adam's major record label debut courtesy of the Elektra label. With a major label comes major names and that's the same here with two major names from the world of Music. Joining her on the album is the phenomenally successful production duo of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis As well as Keith Thomas. This...

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A "mountain" climb to the best!

Advantages: Easy listening, fulfilling, comforting
Disadvantages: Repetitive, predictable, too many ballads

...This is the latest album from Lonestar at the current time, and being a life-long Lonestar fan I have to say I was really dissappointed in this album. After two or three listens it went back onto the cd rack for a few months until i recently decided to give it another chance, afterall Lonestar have never dissappointed in the past so it deserved another go. I have to say, it proved me wrong, i guess it is one of those cds you just have to listen to a few times! The album start off with a great song, being the released single "Mountains" but until the middle of the album I felt it was "ok but good". The latter half of the album is much better. It is a very emotional album behind the lyrics - possibly too many ballad and slow-songs for my liking of Lonestar but all in all a good listen......given a few chances. 1. Mountains This is...

Chocolatyclaire 16.03.2007 (25.06.2007) · Read review
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THE MOUNTAIN DRINK.

Advantages: NICE CITRUS FLAVOUR.
Disadvantages: TASTELESS WHEN HOT AND EXCESS SUGAR AND CAFFEINE.

...When I heard about the mountain dew drink, I was anxious to know the company responsible for the drink because it was a new drink. Later to realize that it is manufactured under the license of the Pepsi & 7up company. Normally my interest for fizzy drinks are now moving off but I still give them a little bit attention by drinking them occasionally but this mountain dew drink is a drink you will like to drink as an adult because as a caffeine content most people like me will like to getting the caffeine taste. Came in existence in the 1940"s in Tennessee the mountain dew I think came into competition with other fizzy drinks of recent. Actually, this mountain dew drink is banned in many countries do to the excess caffeine present in it and no wonder I cant actually drop this drink...

apatra 23.02.2007 · Read review
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How dare it snow in the mountains!!

Advantages: Lots to see & do, easy to get to
Disadvantages: Not for the lazy

...may as well go to The Blue Mountains as we are only 30 minutes away. "Sounds great" so off we went. The Blue Mountains are approx 100 kms West of Sydney (60-90 minutes drive) and form part of The Great Dividing Range. This was an impenetrable barrier on the voyage of discovery and it wasn't until 1813 that they were crossed by Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth and a Lieutenant Lawson, along with four servants. By July 1814 a 47 mile road had been built and within six months the road extended all the way to what is now Bathurst, 101 miles away. They were originally named Carmarthen Hills and Landsdowne Hills in 1778 although not long after were renamed The Blue Mountains due to the distinctive blue haze surrounding the area. I must say that the name to me is a bit of a misnomer. To my mind they are neither mountains nor...

TheWizardsSleeve 15.10.2007 · Read review
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All aboard the runaway mine train

Advantages: A classic Disney ride, fun for almost everyone, can Fastpass
Disadvantages: Queues and isn't exactly white knuckle!

...Big Thunder Mountain is a ride in Disneyland Paris. There is also a version of the same ride in Magic Kingdom Florida and Disneyland California. It can be found in 'Frontierland' which is situated on the west side of the park. Other attractions in Frontierland include the Phantom Manor and the Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing (which is a big Mississippi riverboat which sails the lake around Big Thunder Mountain). As with all the rides in Disneyland you don't have to pay to ride Big Thunder Mountain as the price for rides is included in the entry fee. You can't miss Big Thunder Mountain as it is set on a huge orangey red rock and as the ride is in contant use trains go by every minute or so. The theme behind the ride is that gold was discovered on big thunder mountain way back in the late 1880's and a mining company soon...

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Small Lives Among Big Mountains

Advantages: Great descriptions, fabulous verbal 'scenery'
Disadvantages: Not a lot of plot

...marry a man with a big future. Therefore, he married the girl, pocketed a generous dowry and a ticket for the ship to England without her. On returning from Cambridge - a place where he felt totally isolated and very foreign - he found his wife too 'Indian' and sent her back to her parents, where six months later she produced a daughter. When that daughter was subsequently killed with her husband in Russia (they were involved in the space programme, which should have been an interesting theme but wasn't developed at all in the book), their only child, Sai, was left with no other living relative. The Judge grudgingly agreed for her to come and live with him in his ramshackle home in the mountains. The other key player in the judge's household is the cook - another outsider from a different region of India. All his hopes are riding on his...

koshkha 09.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai