An Expedition to IKEA Leads to Expeditious Expediting Of EXPEDIT

Advantages: Cavernous, easy to build (mostly). Neat styling and apparently well made
Disadvantages: Bloody heavy & unlikely to survive taking apart (after all who keeps the instructions?)

...the room in which we spend most time awake (My wife thinks, incorrectly as it happens, "Oh goody, we're getting a new lounge!"), I set about gutting the room completely. As the task neared completion, the question of storage reared its head. Some bookshelves of formidable capacity were needed, even after a damned good weed-out. It needed to be neat, functional and neutral in design. Naturally IKEA's web-site featured in this process, and that's where the Expedit storage system comes into the equation. The 1.85 x 1.85 metre variant was what we decided to get, in white. Black and beech-effect are also possible. The end result is that you have a nearly 6-foot square bookcase, with 25 cubicles of roughly one-foot in all dimensions. The thick upright sides and four other internal partitions lose about 1/10th of the height and width between...

BNibbles 27.03.2009 (29.03.2009) · Read review
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Timex Expedition For Outdoor Explorers

Advantages: Comfort, affordability, water resiliant and light weight.
Disadvantages: Compass can let you down

...an authorised watch dealer selling ladies and men's sports, casual, classic and formal watches. All of their watches are stylish and offer something for everyone. The Timex Expedition range of watches is where the Timex Expedition E-Tide-Temp-Compass watch that I am reviewing fits in. The Timex Expedition range of watches make the most out of your outdoor experience providing a range of watches with a timeless design and advanced features. If you are thinking of taking up a new outdoor pursuit then you will need a watch and compass that doesn't let you down. Timex have their own website at, http://www.timex.co.uk/ and looking on this website provides you with a larger selection of watches compared with looking at other websites and in store. Today we are spoilt for choice with watches and clocks so how do you choose the right one for you? This...

Mickie26 27.06.2009 · Read review
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Ikea expedit - surprisingly good!

Advantages: easy to build
Disadvantages: heavy

...the place for about an hour before we had taken it all in. All the furniture looked great, and the furnishings were really funky too! We had lots of little items in our basket, but as yet had not decided on the bookcase. So we went to the restaurant to decide. We qued for food, and despite the que, we were served very quickly. The cashier told me to grab a loyalty card from beside (Ikea family card), which got us money off the food, and free coffee. A cooked breakfast for me and my wife, and two coffees for £1.98!! We ate, and drank and decided on the bookcase. We chose the expedit bookcase, which was £106. very reasonable, as the thing was basically a 6 foot long, 6 foot high cube of shelves. It looked sturdy,and stylish. So, we picked it up in the self service lobby, and paid for it, along with our other things. I was happy with the level...

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Tortec Expedition Bicycle Pannier Rack

Advantages: Versatile, durable, good weight capacity, multiple bike fitment
Disadvantages: Black anodising fades

...What no Fancy title? It's a a rack. It goes on your bicycle. It carries stuff. Enough said. I purchased this particular model because it had a Cycling Plus best buy, and had positive reviews elsewhere. I have a daily 22 mile commute, and need to carry quite a bit of kit, including shower stuff and a change of clothes - my walking rucksack was starting to get rather heavy. The rack comes in silver or black - I bought the black one. The Expedition is a heavy-duty rack, weighing in at 900g with a carrying capacity of 30kg, and comes with a handy bracket for mounting a rear light. The multi-mount fitting system is designed to fit a wide range of bicycles. Out of the box The rack certainly looked the business. It appeared to be well constructed, with tidy wields, good quality anodising, and all screws were stainless...

fred_redwood 18.10.2009 · Read review
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BSES Expeditions

Advantages: Great destinations, experience of a lifetime, registered charity so not profiting from you, just go for it!
Disadvantages: Ummm.... cost might put people off, although it's pretty standard for this kind of thing it does seem a lot of money at first. You can raise it though!

...I didn't actually go on a gap year expedition, although I have heard they are good. I went on one of their 6 week summer expeditions, to the Tien Shan mountains in Kyrghyzstan, in summer 99. The expedition was fairly typical of the summer ones, with a little over a week spent on a science project, some time doing glacier training, ice climbing etc. and then a two week trek phase. The different types of science work varies with the particular expedition, but often includes ecology-related projects, surveying, geology, glaciology etc. I did a geology project and really enjoyed it. Overall however I think the quality of the science done varies quite a bit, beware if that is your main reason for going, the expeditions are primarily set up for the adventure type stuff. The expeditions usually cost around £2700, although it varies from...

rachel_holley 13.04.2001 · Read review
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It is a must for all the puzzle addicts. (Jewel Quest Expeditions

Advantages: Simple but addictive puzzle game
Disadvantages: The story telling throughout the game

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Challenge Yourself

Advantages: Life changing experience
Disadvantages: It costs a lot but then that is part of the challenge

...It would be wrong to think of World Challenge as a travel agent to be honest it is more than that, it is not the place that the average holiday maker would go to book a holiday as it pitches its business at educational institutions, in specialises in arranging expeditions to lesser developed or developing countries for groups of students hence its customers are primarily schools and other educational institutions and it is established in the UK, Australia and Hong Kong. It offers a range of expeditions of varying lengths and to a whole host of destinations, these expeditions can be anything from a week up to five weeks in length and primarily are aimed at 16-18 year olds however there are programmes for those in years nine and ten where the destinations are less exotic and for one to two weeks in duration, kayaking in Croatia...

atticusuk 30.12.2009 · Read review
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Experience a new idea in shelving

Advantages: versatile
Disadvantages: none

...Storage is a big issue in our house, mainly due to the fact that we don?t have enough of it. I suppose no-one ever has enough, but there comes a point when I get very tired of seeing toys all over the lounge floor, bursting through boxes and spilling onto clear space. I have been looking around for a suitable solution for quite a while, and whilst looking on the IKEA website last week I realised I could make use of the expedit range of shelving IKEA sell in more ways than one. The shelving comes in a few different sizes and colours. You can buy a set of shelves that are square in shape at approx 70 x 70 cm. This is the smallest they sell and contains four inner square slots. A range of other sizes are available to include eight inner slots, sixteen inner slots and twenty inner slots. You wouldn?t think there was anything special...

abbadabbado 07.09.2009 · Read review
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The Best Expedition There Is!

Advantages: So so chocolatey!
Disadvantages: So so fattening!

...dinosaurs & a fudge swirl'. Mmm, delicious! Now as with all Ben and Jerry's ice creams they're best eaten once the containers been left out for a while, that way the ice cream gets soft enough to dig your spoon in! Now, we're on an expedition, searching for dinosaurs. The ice cream is soft enough and we begin to dig. Sure enough after a few attempts we come across a brown, gooey fudgey river. Watch out! You don't wanna fall into that! After several attempts we overcome that obstacle and my, it was delicious! It leaves us with a sweet and creamy taste in our mouths, but enough of that, we won't have enough room in us to finish our expedition. We continue digging. The layers of this strange surface are cream with chocolatey brown fudge layers running through. The ice cream has a very creamy almost milky taste to it, it's very pleasant, maybe not...

lauricha 06.06.2006 · Read review
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Tadpole 23 - THE lightweight expedition tent

Advantages: Lightweight, robust, colour coded poles, reflective guy ropes
Disadvantages: It's not true 4-season, small cooking area, lack of headroom

...of your rucksack (it you're not a purist!) Because it is primarily designed as a lightweight expedition tent, there isn't much room left once there of two of you in it with all your kit - it's not designed for luxury living! The groundsheet raises off the floor in a bowl shape, which is good when there is surface water around after a particulary wet night. However, it isn't good when you spill your hot drink over yourself! At night, if your mate/girlfriend/wife turns over, you kind of have to turn over as well. Getting ready for bed and getting up in the morning is tricky and (at 6'4") I find it a struggle to get over-the-head tops on. The cooking/storage area is small and you need to do quite a bit of kit management to cook safely when its pouring with rain. During hot weather, it is nice to sleep with the fly-sheet removed...

Neviscat 05.09.2006 · Read review
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