Advantages: Stunning scenery
Disadvantages: Avoid winter months, beware of altitude sickness

...and the dwellings that they built. You could easily spend a long weekend touring the park at your leisure. The Rocky Mountains National Park is located in north-central Colorado and people come from all over the world to see the stunningly beautiful scenery. There are more than 70 peaks, many lakes, glaciers and alpine valleys with more than 300 hiking trails and numerous opportunities to spot elk, moose, bighorn sheep and beaver along with many varieties of birds. Wolves and grizzly bears are extinct in Colorado so do not worry! The park is also very popular with horse riders and camping enthusiasts. There are several high standard camp grounds and free shuttle services are provided in the summer months. The park has half a dozen or so visitors centres. The two main park entrances are via Estes Park in the east and Grand Lake in the west... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic place, great mountains, nice people, cheap too
Disadvantages: It's a long way

...After a two week holiday in Colorado, I don't know where to start writing about it so I thought I'd take a stab at another holiday A-Z to give you just a small taster of our experience. I hope you enjoy it! A is for Aspen Renowned as a rather 'up-itself' ski-resort frequented by the rich and famous and those who wannabe rich and famous, we were a little reticent to go to Aspen but curiosity got the better of us. We'd also been told that we couldn't afford to stay there - and proved that wrong by getting the cutest little cabin at a place called L'Auberge d'Aspen for just £36 for the night. Against all odds, we really liked the place because all the skiers had gone home and the summer season wasn't due to start for a few more weeks. On the down-side it piddled down half the time we were there, on the upside it was still... Read review

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Advantages: Durable. Spacious. Easy to erect. Bright & airy.
Disadvantages: None apart from being heavy (but it is a large tent!)

...could have given the tent a better test than this! VALUE FOR MONEY This wasn't the cheapest tent on the market but by no means the most expensive. It cost around £300 bought new last year. I would certainly say this is an excellent tent by a well known brand and it is certainly worth the cost. We are about to start our camping season again this year (later than normal due to the arrival of our youngest son) and plan to do at least 3 or 4 weekend trip along with our annual one week holiday. A year on, there are still no leaks, tears or damage of any kind to the tent and we expect it to last us a good few years to come. Definitely good value for money. SUMMARY Whether you are a newcomer to camping or an old hand at it, this tent is certainly worth considering. I believe this year Outwell has produced Colorado equivalent range... Read review

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Advantages: quite quick, comes with a port for printer, quite cheap
Disadvantages: Big, no power button.

...textbooks as well, which in my opinion is endlessly useful. So where did you get it from? ***************************** I got it as a birthday present 3 years ago from my Aunt Jackie she bought it from Dixon’s. She also took out a 3-year extension to the warranty making it up to 4 years cover. It cost her £45 and an extra £20 for cover making it up to £65. What do you get in the box? *************************** In the box you get: Primax Colorado Direct 9600 – The Scanner Power Twain – Scanner software Drivers – The scanner drivers PrimaPage 98 ocr software – scan documents in to your computer and have them converted into word. MGI PhotoSuite 8.06™ (full version) – very good photo editing software, also useful... Read review

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Advantages: Competitively priced and packed with new features
Disadvantages: None! Any disadvantages would be entirely personal

...The Nikon D300 will currently set you back around £1000 in the UK, and that's without the glass on the front. My review here might seem technical to some, but that's not an amount of money most people part with lightly. I don't apologise for putting some basic spec in the review, after all, if you're considering buying this camera, it's exactly what you need to know before getting out your wallet. If you're after a camera that will take good quality pictures, and allow you minimal chance to alter the settings, then there are other cameras out there that will offer you better value for money. Either way, I'd never advise buying a new camera, this one included, off the back of reading a review. You should always see that camera in person before making a decision. Visit a good camera store, where the staff should be more than happy... Read review

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Advantages: Canon quality, image quality, weight, price
Disadvantages: Easily scratchable, lens adaptions (see below), no film grain

...Before i start let me explain he differances between the Canon 300D and 300V- 300V - A mid range Canon FILM SLR (single lens reflex). this camera takes all kinds of colour / black and white / transparency etc. film but is NOT digital 300D - the subject of this review, the 300D is also a mid range Canon SLR but this version is Digital. Meaning that any pictures you take on the camera are stored on a compact flash card instead of film. Now that the difference is obvious i will give a little technical detail for people who just want the facts. Dimensions (WxDxH) - 14.2 cm x 7.2 cm x 9.9 cm Weight - 560 g Supported Flash Memory - CompactFlash Picture quality - up to 6.30 million effective pixels Lens Aperture - F/3.5-5.6 Focus Adjustment - Automatic, manual Min Focus Range - 28 cm Focal Length - 18 mm - 55 mm... Read review

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Advantages: Canon quality, image quality, weight, price
Disadvantages: Easily scratchable, lens adaptions (see below), no film grain

...Before i start let me explain he differances between the Canon 300D and 300V- 300V - A mid range Canon FILM SLR (single lens reflex). this camera takes all kinds of colour / black and white / transparency etc. film but is NOT digital 300D - the subject of this review, the 300D is also a mid range Canon SLR but this version is Digital. Meaning that any pictures you take on the camera are stored on a compact flash card instead of film. Now that the difference is obvious i will give a little technical detail for people who just want the facts. Dimensions (WxDxH) - 14.2 cm x 7.2 cm x 9.9 cm Weight - 560 g Supported Flash Memory - CompactFlash Picture quality - up to 6.30 million effective pixels Lens Aperture - F/3.5-5.6 Focus Adjustment - Automatic, manual Min Focus Range - 28 cm Focal Length - 18 mm - 55 mm... Read review

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Advantages: CGI looks fantastic, decent action
Disadvantages: Unintentionally hilarious, takes itself too seriously, gratuitous violence and nudity

...300 kind of tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae (we'll deal with that later), in which a group of just 300 Spartan warriors held off the invading force of thousands of Persian soldiers. It stars Scottish actor Gerard Butler (we'll deal with that later) as King Leonidas, Lena Headey (who?) as his Queen, and that guy from LOTR and Van Helsing. What a cast, eh? To be fair, I shouldn't be so harsh, since none of them are that bad. But anyway… 300 begins by explaining Leonidas's childhood, as he was brought up in a Spartan society which raises only the perfect boys (and throws the rest down a cliff), and breeds them into fierce warriors by making them fight each other to the death and leaving them out in the cold to fight wolves. Skipping hastily, for all our sakes, to the present day, King Leonidas is visited... Read review

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Advantages: Great mid-high range speaker
Disadvantages: not so good bass

...Introduction The Electro-voice SX300 PA speaker is an extremely lightweight PA speaker, but still delivers in both sound quality and volume as bigger and heavier speakers. I myself bought these speakers for use as monitors for my music studio, but since then I have used them for discos and other activities at my school, as they are easy to transport. I use these speakers with two EV bass cabinets and power them with two peavey power amplifiers. This rig is amazing for small gigs and vocal announcements in small-medium sized venues. Construction The SX300's are made mainly of plastic but they do have metal fixings on them to secure the whole cabinet. The speaker mesh on the SX300 is solid metal, not the cheap bendy stuff, and takes a lot of force to damage it. On one side of the cabinet is a handle, in my opinion it would have... Read review

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Advantages: Six packs abound in a graphic and bloodly epic
Disadvantages: Highly stylised violence, perhaps not for everyone

...Background 300 is the second Frank Miller graphic novel to be adapted for the big screen. The first was the critically acclaimed Sin City and the director Zack Snyder has used the same process of photocopying panels from the original comic book to plan out the finished look of his latest movie. The final result is a visually stunning combination of live action and CGI that is remarkably faithful to Miller's original artwork. It is quite literally a comic novel brought to life and the superb quality of Miller's graphic creations are a guarantee of stunning eye candy throughout. Plot Summary The story of the movie is based on the Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC in which 300 Spartan warriors held off a Persian army of up to 1 million indigenous and mercenary soldiers against all the odds. The two main protagonists are King Leonidas... Read review

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