₪ ₪ Carcassonne ₪ ₪

Advantages: ~~a unique visit
Disadvantages: ~~ the crowd

...Carcassonne, classed as World Heritage, and national monument since 1997, is known world wide for it's Cathare "cité". It's not easy to describe, but I'll do my best : Imagine a small town, built in the IVth century. This town has it's cathedral, (built later, by the Cathares), and a castle.... the lot is surrounded by a doubled fortified wall. That's for the quick description, but let me tell you how it came to be, and how my visit went. ۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞۞ ~~ I'll start with my visit ~~ ¨?"°º••º°"?¨¨?"°º••º°"?¨¨?"°º••º°"?¨¨¨?"°º••º°"?¨¨ Carcassonne is an hour...

bodsquidge 10.06.2006 · Read review
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Narrow dog to Carcassonne by Terry Darlington

Advantages: A great story, very well told
Disadvantages: It ended!

...This is the tale of Jim, who is a whippet. And his two companions (the humans who mistakenly believe that they own him) Terry and Monica Darlington. And their "brave" decision, on retiring, to take a canal narrowboat the Phyllis May, all the way from Staffordshire to Carcassonne in Southern France. Everyone told them that they were mad, or brave, or stupid or brave in a madly, stupid way. The upshot of this advice was that they were more intent on making the trip. Jim has bad habits. The kind of bad habits that endear dogs to people who are not their owners. His habit of begging in pubs is told by Terry in a fashion that is both highly amusing and original in tone. Terry's sense of humour that shines through the telling of this tale has brought a unique voice to the fore of British writing and it is to be hoped that Terry will...

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Narrow Dog to Carcassonne - Terry Darlington

Advantages: Makes you want to do the trip yourself
Disadvantages: Puts you off ever doing the trip yourself

...My choice this month is a work of non fiction and it represents a complete change of tone; it is an hilarious account of a completely hairbrained attempt by a couple of pensioners to navigate a narrow boat from Stoke in Staffordshire through the canals of France to the Carcassonne region. It would have probably have been safer and less eventful if either the author or his wife had any idea of what they were doing, but it is all too apparent that they had not. Fortunately their whippet Jim, who can be viewed in a disgusting pose on Terry's web site, seems to have some sense of self preservation and, despite his penchant for rogering large lady Labradors, inveigles his way into the sympathies of characters crucial to their survival, who would otherwise have been justified in having Terry and his wife sectioned or whatever the equivalent...

annie777flower 11.10.2007 (10.10.2007) · Read review
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GAME

Advantages: great games
Disadvantages: n/a

...Game is a great shop for any gaming fan, when it comes to getting the games that you want.If it is a console im afraid you are not so lucky, i spent ages trying to get a Nintendo Wii and they always seemed out of stock. They stock consoles, games and accessories for th Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, PC Games, Sony Playstation 2, Sony Playstation 3, Sony Playstation Portable, Nintendo Wii, Xbox and Xbox 360. Game offer special deal when you buy a bundle with any of the consoles, games and accessories. Game is a shop that is well worth visiting if you are passing as they have special offers on a weekly basis on certain games, so worth a visit to try and bag bargain. I have noticed that you can get better offers if you look around online using the comparison sites as the game market is a very competitive market. Game...

jo_field26 22.10.2008 · Read review
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Game

Advantages: read opp
Disadvantages: read opp

...This review is focuses on game.co.uk, an online gaming, and gaming accessories website, that allows people to purchase games online, with it then later being delivered a couple of working days later. Now ive used game.oc.uk several times, infact in 2007, I would say ive spent roughly £350 purchasing items from their website, so I guess I seem to have some experience regarding what the company has to offer, the layout of the website, customer service, price and so on. This review will hopefully bring to attention why I like the site, and why I use the company on a regular basis. Company Info: Game, is a retailer both online and in store, they have a wide selection of consumer products relating to games, and gaming consoles, such as the PS2, X Box and so on. They initially started off with small retail outlets in Europe, namely in...

jaygami1986 03.03.2008 · Read review
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COME FOR TEA IN MY CASTLE.

Advantages: Beautiful place.
Disadvantages: None at all.

...I visited Carcassonne this year and I think that it is an experience that is worth sharing with my friendly Ciao companions, because I notice that Ryanair do cheap flights to Carcassonne and thus that a visit there by people from England is very cheap and quite a viable proposition. Carcassonne is a Medieval Town, housed in the walls of a castle. Imagine living there, it would be a super address to have in France. I wish that I could add photographs to this op because I am not sure wordpower is sufficient to describe how beautiful the place is. As you approach Carcassonne, you suddenly see the turrets of the castle high on a hill in the distance, and it is breathtakingly beautiful, as well as entire, instead of being a relic from the past. It is a living town, a place where people are born and raised, not just a dead monument like...

thingywhatsit 04.11.2003 · Read review
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Life is just a game - enjoy it

Advantages: Good family fun
Disadvantages: Rules are quite difficult to pick up at first

... THE GAM OF LIFE Mention 'games' to children today and they automatically think of Wii, X Box, Play Station or DS games. But what is better than a good old-fashioned board game that the whole family can play together? I expect that many of you reading this review played it as a young person - but have you any idea how long it has been going? It may amaze you to know that it was originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley, and was then known as The Checkered Game of Life. The modern version was originally published one hundred years later, in 1960) by the Milton Bradley Company (now a subsidiary of Hasbro). Game of Life is, just what it says on the box, a game about living your life and making choices along the way. Luck does play a major part in the game, but there are also so important decisions that have to...

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Play the Game

Advantages: Entertaining subject, engagingly written, very amusing in parts.
Disadvantages: Loses interest towards the end.

...Want to make yourself irresistible to women? Fancy being a master of seduction? This book is the story of a man who learnt how, who learnt the secrets of the Game. Neil Strauss wasn't exactly your prototypical loveless loser, but then he wasn't terribly irresistible either. An everyman of the dating game, with ever-declining hair and glasses, the initial change involved a makeover into the shiny-bonced, sharply goateed figure gracing the cover of The Game. The physical transformation, however, was only the first and the easiest of the alterations Strauss would make. Months later, he was living in the daddy of bachelor pads, hanging out with models, dating a string of beautiful women and chatting up Britney Spears. Not bad for a balding journalist on the less youthful side of thirty. It's certainly an enticing prospect as...

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Gaming for everyone

Advantages: The best selection of games, Xbox Live is an amazing online service
Disadvantages: Hardware problems

... XBOX 360 Gaming for everyone is here A review for the Xbox 360, or any game console for that matter, can never act as a substitute for your own personal tastes in gaming. The video game industry is constantly changing, and there are so many different aspects to each console, that a lot of us just can't decide which one to purchase. I hope that with my review, I can at least inform you about the world surrounding the Xbox 360 and how it could be the console for you. History The Xbox 360 was revealed to the world on May 12th 2005 on MTV and was released on November 22nd 2005. It is the second video game console from Microsoft and acts as one of the three consoles that are competing within the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was the first to launch of the next generation, ahead of the Nintendo Wii...

leg3nd10 24.08.2009 · Read review
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Life Is A Game

Advantages: Interesting board game everyone seems to like
Disadvantages: Takes a while to set up

...Game Of Life one of the board games I remember from my childhood, when the whole family would sit down together on a Sunday, after Bullseye and Sunday Dinner, and play a game whether it be cards or one of the many board games we had. History The game was originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley, and was called The Chequered Game Of Life, and it sold 45,000 copies in its first year of production. The game did not include a dice as these were considered by many to be wicked items and only for gamblers, and instead used a teetotum which is a six sided top, is where the spinner in the middle comes from. The original game was based around a chess board and the object was to land on good spaces and earn 100 points. You could earn another 50 points by reaching happy old age which was at the end of the game...

johnny040676 14.06.2008 · Read review
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