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Advantages: Good location for visiting the Périgord, interesting old building
Disadvantages: Needs more restoration, a bit over-priced, the restaurant

...Ever fancied staying in a hunting lodge but never had the money or the connections? Me too. So this hotel seemed ideal, billed as it was as an "ancien repaire noble". The rather odd English translation called it a "noble haunt"; I prefer "lodge", and I bet they hunted from it. The website pictures looked fantastic above and it was in just the right location. We booked for 6 nights half board. The right location was Le Bugue on the Vézère not far from its confluence with the Dordogne, in the Périgord. Specifically we planned to do some caving. Not the adventurous variety, but the cultural variety - palaeolithic cave art, of which this part of France is a big centre. The palaeolithic capital, the small village of Les Eyzies, is only 6 miles away, and other big names such as Rouffignac, Teyjat and Lascaux are nearby. So well...

Chouchinciao 21.09.2006 · Read review
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Le Domaine Les Pailles Resort

Advantages: Activies and fun for all ages and tastes!
Disadvantages: When rounded up, it can be quite pricey!

...The best Holiday Resort I have ever been in Mauritius is The Domaine Les Pailles. As I briefly mentioned in one of my previous reviews, this is a humongous holiday resort which stretches out for miles and miles, and comprises of activities, fun and cuisine for every ages and tastes. It is situated at Pailles, a small town just a few minutes before Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. Finding the road to Domaines Les Pailles turned out to be quite difficult because there is one specific corner road we had to turn into and we kept missing roads! But once we got into the road which would take us to the resort, it was as if we'd immediately been shut out of the real world. As one approaches the resort, hill and mountain landscapes arise in welcome. In fact, the resort is nestled among hills, valleys and mountains. The long driveway is...

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Carve Her Name With Pride. A classic DVD

Advantages: A true story of a young woman during WW11
Disadvantages: May be uncomfortable viewing for some

...Review of 'Carve Her Name With Pride' DVD The DVD First released to cinemas in 1958 and on DVD in 2007. The DVD has a run time of 115 minutes and carries a PG certificate. The DVD is filmed in black and white and there are no special features or extras included. Cast, Producers, Writers and Directors Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury Directors: Lewis Gilbert Writers: Lewis Gilbert, Leo Marks, R.J. Minney, Vernon Harris Producers: Daniel M. Angel, Earl St. John, Hugh Perceval The Plot Carve Her Name With Pride is a dramatic story. It follows the true story of War heroine Violette Szabo. Violette, a fluent French speaker, who after the death of her husband, volunteered during the Second World War to be parachuted into France as a secret agent to re...

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The Name of the Wind - Do You Know It?

Advantages: Well-written; humorous; enjoyable; escapist.
Disadvantages: Cliched; not entirely mind-blowing.

...?I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by the moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me.? The above passage is reproduced on the sleeve of this delightful fantasy novel, and with good reason: it gives an overview of a story that is instantly familiar to readers of fantasy literature. A powerful, daring, magical hero is a staple of the genre, and barrow kings, Gods, dangerous paths and strangely named towns form the backbone of hundreds of fantasy novels. This offering ticks...

MikeOCarroll 14.06.2009 · Read review
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Named and Positively Acclaimed!

Advantages: Fresh and inspiring, a perfect chill out album!
Disadvantages: 1 Weak Track, un-noticeable!

..."The Boy With No Name" is the fifth album from blue-eyed boy Fran Healey and his cohorts. Scottish and proud, Travis have become an institution with their brand of mellow-indie pop, piano accompanied soulful ballads and deep and meaningful, often soul-rending lyrics. Nowadays a mainstage festival head-line without Travis would be like you or I without a limb. They've become a much-loved and inspirational pillar in the structure of popular British Music. Travis: A Quick Lowdown: Travis formed in 1991 during Healey's Uni years, and spent much of their musical youth touring Glasgow and eventually signed a £100,000 deal with Andy MacDonald, owner of Go! Discs Records. I've since found out on Travis' current online biography that Andy MacDonald actually fronted his own money to sign the band to himself and not his record company (which...

lisacallow 12.06.2007 · Read review
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In the Name of the Father

Advantages: Tense, good use of music to create the effect and fear
Disadvantages: not 100% accurate, which undermines it's importance

..."In the Name of the Father" is based on the autobiography of Gerry Conlon, one of the wrongly convicted Guildford Four pub bombings that happened in the 1970's. The Guildford Four were released from prison in 1989 and since then Gerry Conlon has released his book "Proved Innocent." NOTE: I have not read the book, and knew nothing of the story of the Guildford Four until I watched this film, and therefore this review is based on my opinion of the film and how it made me feel. Jim Sheridan produced this film, along with many other films with their roots in Ireland, including My Left Foot, Bloody Sunday and In America. This particular film was first released in 1993, four years after the Guildford Four were freed. Background ----------------- What happened to the Guildford Four is now well documented and is an example of one...

Claiiiree 19.12.2005 (27.12.2005) · Read review
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In the name of entertainment watch this

Advantages: A great feel good fantasy movie
Disadvantages: Burt Reynolds

...In The Name of the King- A Review by Adam After seeing a trailer for this film a wee while ago I recently got myself a copy and unwrapped the DVD in great anticipation and sat down with my family to enjoy, and we were far from disappointed. In the Name of the King is a fantasy film set in an imaginary realm with swords/ armour and all the vital ingredients of a quality fantasy film, In fact the film is very much like the Dungeons & Dragons game put on film or if anyone remembers them the Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone Role Playing books. Who's In It & What Role Do They Play? Jason Statham (Farmer) John Rhys-Davies (Merick) Ray Liotta (Gallian) Matthew Lillard (Duke Fallow) LeeLee Sobieski (Muriella) Burt Reynolds (King Konreid) Will Sandeson (Bastion) Ron Perlman (Norick) Claire Forlani (Solana) Brian White...

tayloa22 27.04.2008 · Read review
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By any other name

Advantages: Imaginative, intricate, ultimately illuminating
Disadvantages: Always demanding, occasionally difficult

...not his identity - because the chapter heading has told us so. If we had our wits about us, we could already be picking up clues to help us unravel the mystery, but our wits are somewhat befuddled at this early stage in the narrative. The quotation above is taken from the fourth of the fifty-nine chapters of 'My Name is Red'. The chapters are shared out among no fewer than twenty narrators. For example, Chapter 1 is ostensibly written posthumously by the spirit of Elegant, the murderer's first victim; Chapter 2 by Black, who will later emerge both as the male protagonist in the love affair that is one of the central strands of the story and as one of the detectives who eventually unmask the murderer; Chapter 3 by a dog. And so on. Not all the narrators are major characters, or human, or even animal. If this were a game...

torr 07.09.2005 (19.10.2006) · Read review
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What's in a name?

Advantages: Fascinating, a good mystery, lots of little touches
Disadvantages: -

...This film is a fascinating combination of modern and medieval elements. The setting is an abbey, whose name according to the narrator, 'it seems pious and prudent to omit'. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Umberto Eco, a semiologist and intellectual I had the pleasure of meeting twice - once at my university in America, and then again a few years later in London. Semiotics is a study of signs - in many ways, my theological training parallels, and it is this kind of parallel that is at the heart of the novel. There is a debate about to be had at the high, inaccessible abbey. This debate, according to the leading Franciscan participant, is one that can determine the theology of the church for generations to come. So pivotal was this issue that papal envoys and monastics from around Christendom have gathered to...

frkurt 11.10.2005 · Read review
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Need a domain name? Dot.tk is the name!

Advantages: free domain names | loads of features
Disadvantages: could loose free domain name after 90 days | only allowd 3 free domains per account

...This is a review on the website www.tk or www.dot.tk to some. This site gives you loads of stuff that is useful for your website, and that thing is a Domain Name. You can sign up free for 3 free Domain Names. There are some disadvantages to this website also, but I will discuss more about that later down in the review. This website allows you to get free domain names, that are reasonable, some of them you will need to pay for, so if they don?t allow you to get it as a free domain, and then change the title a bit, then you will have your domain name. But before you can do all that, you will need to register for the website. Which is fast and easy, and you will like what will happen when you get your first Domain name, you will be pleasantly surprised. Dot.tk puts your website on numerous search engines under the keywords you put...

DBZKing 17.01.2005 · Read review
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