Design Go Travel Earphones

Advantages: Stylish, Cheap, Good Quality
Disadvantages: Hard to get hold of, can go slightly fuzzy when on full volume

...I used to have a pair of these i used for my mp3 player, they were really comfy to wear and look stylish and matched the look of my mp3 player. They had a very good lenth cable that was long enough to go through my jumper to hide the fact i was even wearing them. The sound quality was good except from when the volume was turned up film then the sound wasn't to the quality it was when it was on a lower level. They were compatable with lots of items i own, and fitted the long distance trains radio plug ins that i use quite regularly. I paid £4.99 for these which was a bargain price as the were very robust and good quality. I would definately recommend them to others for use with any portable device. Sadly i lost mine and the shop no longer stocks them and the only places i have seen them for sale has been the internet...

Hsaxo 21.03.2008 · Read review
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We all go travelling by - Sheena Roberts

Advantages: Great story, bright colours, cd included
Disadvantages: none

...This book is in paperback form, and approx 8? by 8? square. With 24 pages. ?We all go travelling by? is based on a school journey in a yellow school bus, each page starts with the words ?I spy with my little eye, you can hear with your little ear? starting with the yellow bus which goes beep beep, following that you have ?And we all go travelling by, bye-bye, and we all go travelling by.? The next page repeats the yellow bus as well as adding another coloured form of transport and the noise that makes, right through to 8 different types, then the final part of the journey when they have arrived at school. Apart from the story itself, you can use the pictures to extend your child?s learning by counting people, trees etc and looking and naming the different colours. As some words repeat on each page, your child would soon learn the words...

nicolaks1 18.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of We All Go Travelling By - Sheena Roberts

Round Trip

Advantages: World enough
Disadvantages: And time?

...in terrestrial travelling. What's more, I like to travel in circles. I am much less enthused by a journey that goes from A to B and directly back again than by a journey that winds its circuitous way back to A via as many letters of the alphabet as can be conveniently encompassed. I like to go out by one route, back by another. For this, round the world is a natural. The only problem, money apart of course, is finding the time to derive full benefit from the experience. Puck's resolve to "put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes" is typically over-the-top boy racer braggartry, immaturely missing the point. The astronauts who whiz round in an hour and a half (or however long it takes these days) seem to me to be almost equally misguided. Phileas Fogg's eighty days is much more like par for the course, this being one...

torr 31.08.2005 (02.09.2005) · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Going Round the World

Travel play

Advantages: Handy for travelling
Disadvantages: Tiny pieces

...Snakes and Ladders Handy for travelling, I picked up this game at the airport, hoping to while away some of the flight. ~~Product and Packaging.~~ The game is inside a small tin measuring about 12cm square and only about 1cm thick- hard to imagine how a whole game fits inside something so small but indeed it does. It's a jolly red tin with the name of the game written clearly on the front and a picture of the contents on the back. Open up the tin and inside there are 6 different coloured magnetic counters; the snakes and ladders game itself is on the inside of the tin. The full instructions are on the inside lid as well. For anyone unsure as to how to play this traditional game the rules are clearly written with a couple of illustrations to give the novice a clear understanding of how to play the game. I won't go into...

danielalong 18.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of GoPlay Magnetic Travel Snakes & Ladders

A Strange New World - Never Let Me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Advantages: Well written, mysterious story
Disadvantages: could be disturbing but I found no disadvantages

...strange. The students appear quite content and go to lessons, play sport and enjoy music but something is not right. Partly it is the odd things the students have to take part in as part of their school experience like the Exchanges that take place four times a year. They have to contribute works of a creative nature such as poetry, painting or the like and these are ?sold? for exchange tokens which the students can then use to purchase items brought into the school from the outside world. We gradually become aware that all is not what it seems, this is not a private boarding school nor is it an orphanage. These students are not normal or at least that is what is hinted. These students obviously have no experience of the outside world at all and they know only each other and their guardians. Some of the guardians say more than they should...

catsholiday 10.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

World Series Poker 2008 , go all in on the DS

Advantages: Cannot lose real money, educational
Disadvantages: Slow to play some hands, scrolling screen, cannot save game in mid tournament

...Introduction Card games have been around for many years with varying degrees of popularity. Over the past decade with the growth of the internet, these games and, in particular, poker have grown massively. Such is its popularity, you can now play poker on any of the leading games consoles as well as the PC. Word Series Poker 2008 on the DS allows you to play for fun against fictitious opponents rather than throwing you into the big wide world of live poker against opponents who are hoping to take your money. The game The game is a very accurate reflection of a real game of poker. You have the choice of either a quick, single game right up to a full career mode where the objective is to progress through lower ranked tournaments and built up enough cash to enter the World Series itself and walk away with the coveted...

craggybuk 04.06.2009 · Read review
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Euro Trip

Advantages: Funny Teenagers in Europe
Disadvantages: Crude, rude humour

...fan club from Ohio. It?s definitely in my opinion very representative of American teenagers abroad for the first time, away from their parents in Europe. I think they almost have this vision that Europe is like the ultimate holiday adventure for people of a certain age. The drinking age of consent for most of America is 21 so when they come to Europe at 18 they find themselves in their element. There?s lots of stereotypical views of Europe in this movie, everyone in Amsterdam smokes weed. There?s quite a funny scene where they go into a coffee house and eat some brownies. In The Vatican they almost cause a world scandal by accidently starting a fire which lights up white smoke in Vatican City, making everyone believe a new pope has been elected. According to an article I read, the film went on to gross $17,771,387 in the United...

Spottydog11 13.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Euro Trip (DVD)

TRAVEL around the world in 79 days!

Advantages: there is non
Disadvantages: the worst book in the world!

...shortened it way too much, and the exciting bits you'll find in the original book was the only things in this book, therefore there was no tension no interesting stuff. And no boring stuff (but all the exciting stuff together makes it boring!) I like the boring stuff in a book because it can build up tension and make you want to read an excited bit... in this book retold by John Kennett didn't have any boring stuff :-( Hmmmmm what else should I type? I know more about the story. Well the differences between the film and the book: Right well I've only seen the film which has Jackie Chan in. Well in that film they go around the world in a hot air balloon. But because this book was made ages ago they travel by steamer (Boat) and train. In my opinion that makes it pretty boring. In the book they have a detective after them who imprison them in...

Jonni_boi 27.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Around the World In Eighty Days (Retold by John Kennett) - Jules Verne

Tv on the Radio go Shiny Disco Funk

Advantages: Toe tapping, brilliant lyrics, catchy, high quality, Danceable
Disadvantages: One or two tracks that don't stand up to the quality of the rest.

...disbelief at people's inability to form opinions for themselves. I'd argue that a large portion of Dear Science is made a reflection of everything that was going on during the recording of the album. There's moments of hope, especially in the disco funk and brass backing on single 'Golden Age' with a chorus so happy in "The age of miracles/The age of sound/Well there's a Golden Age/Comin' round, comin' round, comin' round", directly reflecting that after eight years of Bush that anything after would be a refreshing change. This is bookended by a the sublime Family Tree's inward reference to the changing attitude towards race, and is the kind of ballad that Coldplay's Christ Martin could only dream in writing. But along with 'Dancing Choose' there's a sense of anger at things having gone astray. Red Dress starts with "Hey Jackal, f**k your...

ScreamingTc 31.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dear Science [Digipak] - TV On The Radio

Travelling compactly

Advantages: Folds up compactly, bright colours, use as a cot or play pen
Disadvantages: Thin mattress base

...~*~*~INTRODUCTION~*~*~ My mother in law wanted to buy a travel cot when my son was born as she will be looking after him when I go back to work. We looked around on the internet and when she saw the Graco compact she decided that was the one, she loved that it was nice and bright and thought my son would enjoy playing in there as well as sleeping. We ordered it from Kiddicare but unfortunately they have stopped selling it. I have since seen it on Amazon, Halfords and Ebay though for roughly the same prices. ~*~*~FEATURES~*~*~ -Suitable from birth to around 3 years. -It comes in a handy carry case, making it easy for travel. -The travel cot unfolds easily and I actually put it up in a couple of minutes on my first attempt. -The sides are mesh which is nice and soft for wriggly babies banging their heads, also...

ashton08 12.09.2008 · Read review
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