Mount Vesuvius - There she didn't blow!!

Advantages: Utterly incredible views and atmosphere !!
Disadvantages: Not suitable for the less fit

...Thinking back, my ten day holiday in the Bay of Naples probably packed in more wonderful venues than any other holiday I have taken. I visited Pompeii, Capri, Herculaneum ,Sorrento, drove around the wonderful Amelfi Coast and I actually climbed to the top of.arguably, the most famous volcano in the world - Mount Vesuvius ( Monte Vesuvio) !! All my life I had wanted to visit Pompeii but I never dreamt that one day I would climb to the crater from which the source of Pompeii's destruction came with such vengeance. Situated just six miles east of Naples it is a short distance from the shore. The area around Vesuvius was officially declared a national park on 5 June 1995. The thing that amazed me was just how volcano dominates the whole area -we could see it soon after leaving the airport on our way to our hotel and it...

oldchem 30.05.2009 (31.05.2009) · Read review
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Gardening Is Easy With Rehau Wall Mounted Automatic Hose Reel

Advantages: Easy, convinient, flexible, good value for money, made by a top quality brand
Disadvantages: Might have to buy other fittings as these are not very strong.

...If you need help managing your hose this ready assembled wall mounted reel helps you do just that. When you buy the auto reel you also receive 20m of top quality hose and all fittings, including wall-mounting bracket and fixings. It is very reliable and I have not encountered any problems with this although you might want to use better fixings than what it is supplied with as they are not very strong. Don't get me wrong it is good that you also receive the fixings it is just that there are much better ones on the market. A trip to somewhere like B&Q will give you the fixings that you need. It is an extremely convenient product that allows you to rewind the hose by walking back to the drum. There is no hassle that you would normally have of rewinding the hose yourself. It is the perfect blend of automatic hose coiling and spring...

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Hotel Mount Herbert, dublin

Advantages: Staff
Disadvantages: Evening Meal

...The nature of my work requires me to stay in away from home for several weeks of the year so it is important that I stay at quality hotels. On this ossasion, July 2008, my company booked me into the Mount Herbert Hotel This is near the Lansdowne Stadium and about 15 mins from where I was working. I arrived at the hotel at about 7am and the staff on reception were extremely obliginging in allowing me to check in early. The room I was given was extremely clean and in good conditionand well decorated. It came with the usual tea and coffee making facilities, which were generously replenished on a daily basis. There is satelite TV and includes the four main UK chanels The buffet breakfast, that was included in the room charge, was well cooked and an excellent choice of items was available. On the negative side I was...

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Mount Eccles - Cheap and cheerful

Advantages: Central Location
Disadvantages: Car parking

...a television. We found the staff not very helpful and this opinion was backed up by lorry drivers who regulary stay there. We were given no information about safes or lockers available to us, we took the risk and left things in the room so I'm unsure about where to leave valuables here. Also we were told by the receptionist as we waited outside on a taxi to move down the street because one member in our company was smoking, she came outside on a freezing cold night to tell us this - very pushy!!! Location: Mount Eccles is located in North Great George Street just off lower O'connell Street, one of the main shopping areas in Dublin and smack bang in the centre of things. A leisurely 5 minute stroll will take you there. The street the building is in is a Georgian street and very pretty. At the end of the road there are many Chinese takeaways...

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Review of Mount Eccles Court, Dublin

THE MOUNT FROM WHERE THE ARMADA WAS FIRST SIGHTED

Advantages: Great Views.
Disadvantages: Not Disabled friendly, but sorry it can not be.

...SAINT MICHAELS MOUNT lies just off the Coast near Penzance. I will start off by giving their web site address. http://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/ This is an excellent site that gives a full History and Story of the Mount and I recommend a look for those details as my review is more about our experience. We have visited the Mount on numerous occassions, starting with our first visit to Cornwall in 1969 as a Courting Couple (Thats an old fashioned term). Other visits followed over the years with first one child, then two then three. And more recently with one of the Grand Chilren. But each and every time it has its Magic. Each time the weather will be different. Also the tide and it is this that can alter the way you visit the Mount. The Mount became an Island in about 2000 B.C. and at low tide can be walked across...

poshtroika 07.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Saint Michael's Mount, Cornwall

Mount Kenya, The Crazy British way

Advantages: Great views, lifetime experience
Disadvantages: Too high.

...Going up the hill... If you want to get a train to the top, and buy a badge to say you did it at the peak visitor centre, youre in the wrong place. Up and down in 3 days, as we did it, is a seriously bad idea, with altitude sickness and so on, the only possible way to climb is to take 6 steps forward and two back - there is no ammount of training that can prepare a couch potato to do this, you must be fit in body and mind, and then make your peace with whoever before you go get to the top. On route to the summit of Mount Kenya there are a few lodges, one, about half way up has its own porter who will share his food at a price. The billets are basic, sometimes with a dirty matteress, but expect to pay a renal price for this. The toilet facilities are usually a stinking \"long drop\" (hole in the floor) or simply using...

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Mounts Bay Waters Apartments..A 5* experience!

Advantages: Very close to Perth city, stunning views, ultra modern......
Disadvantages: Room service got you up far too early!

...The apartments are a 20 minute drive from the airport and with the aid of a map we were able to find them quite easily. The Mounts bay waters apartments are situated on Mounts Bay road which is adjacent to two of Perths greatest attractions - the Swan River and Kings Park and is also just a few minutes stroll to the Perth central business district and also (more importantly if you like retail therapy) the shops! Mounts Bay Waters apartments - also known as Mounts bay village, comprises of a number of buildings which house both hotel guests and residents. Upon arrival we were quite excited as everywhere looked wonderful, not to mention clean, the reason for our excitement I will leave for another review, lets just say that our apartments in the last city, melbourne, didnt live up to expectations! Anyway, There were six...

scarletuk72 08.11.2005 · Read review
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mount herbert hotel, Ballsbridge Dublin 4

Advantages: excellent service
Disadvantages: none

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mabi 16.07.2008 · Read review
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Happy Days Are Here Again

Advantages: A lovely old fashioned park with lots of fun and attractions for kids of all ages.
Disadvantages: None

...Morecambe is rather a sad little town in Northern England that is trying desperately to regain some of its past popularity in the tourist industry. One part of Morecambe that has kept its charm throughout the rise and fall of this northern seaside town is the lovely little Happy Mount Park, situated at the eastern end of Morecambe's Promenade. Happy Mount Park was originally created in the 1920s as a traditional urban park. Over the years there have been a variety of unusual attractions such as wild animals (with, believe it or not, a bear!) and a boating waterway. I have been a visitor to the park over the last fifty years and seen many changes, I used to love the illuminations that were held their up to the 1980's, I was less impressed with the short time that the park was turned into Crinkly Bottom by Noel Edmunds in...

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Review of Happy Mount Park, Lancashire

Vesuvius Is Just Sleeping Not Dead

Advantages: Amazing Views-Well Worth The Climb
Disadvantages: It's A Fair Walk To The Top

...~ A Brief History Of Vesuvius ~ Mount Vesuvius last erupted in 1944.Our guide told us that about 700,000 people live on the slopes, some in houses only a few hundred metres from the crater. The reason they live here is because property and rents are very cheap here and the soil is very fertile, we were told that the people on the slopes were paid to move away but they gradualy all moved back here even though they know Vesuvious could erupt again at anytime. Some 12,000 years after it first exploded into life, it looks very peaceful -no white plume from the summit -no glowing embers-inside the craters when you look down it just looks like a big hole with soil in-see photos-but Vesuvius is just sleeping, not dead. From the Eighteenth century onwards travellers have been prepared to tackle the climb up to the top in order to...

debmercury 04.04.2008 (26.10.2008) · Read review
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