Richmond - not rich in content unfortunately.

Advantages: Quite cheap. Look like sausages.
Disadvantages: A pitiful 42% pork content. Quite chewy. Far too much salt per sausage.

...When it comes to meat products I am a very fussy person. Only the best will do for me. But I have only been so concerned with what I eat in the last year or so, and it pains me to say it, but Richmond Sausages were the defining factor in this. Looking for a meaty accompaniment to my dinner one day I picked up a pack of Richmond Thick Irish Recipe Sausages for the what seemed a reasonable price of £2.19 for 8. Concealed in their rather plain green and white packaging, you can see for yourself the sausages, and from the outside they do look like your standard banger. However, this is as far as the likeness goes. Once I had cooked them, they had shrunk to about half the original size of what they were (not a good start). Again, after being cooked for around 25 minutes, the outside looked perfectly normal; a crisp dark brown colour as I...

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Richmond Capital of the Confederacy

Advantages: Cheap accommadation and food but of reasonable quality
Disadvantages: Everything shuts on a Sunday so if you are in a B&B make sure you stock up on grub

...During a holiday to America I travelled to Richmond, Virginia and had a thoroughly enjoyable three days in this culturally and architecturally rich city. Getting there: Road: It is about 2-2 ½ hours drive from Washington By Amtrak: Very comfortable and cheap but does not exactly provide a central dropping off point By Greyhound: Cheap way of travelling but again it drops you on the outskirts of the city By Air: Richmond airport is only really an option if you intend to pick up a car there as it is 10-12 miles outside the city Accommodation: Virtually all the accommodation in this city is very reasonably priced as it has a university and has to cater for students for when they first arrive. One useful facility was a central reservation line that could be called to book rooms in the participating hotels in the scheme. If you do...

Guzman 28.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Richmond

Best Western Richmond BC, near Vancouver Airport

Advantages: Loads! All round excellent hotel to stay in.
Disadvantages: Perhaps not for kids, not in ?touristy? part of town (which could be advantages to some of course?)

...This was an excellent hotel! It?s not the poshest I?ve stayed in terms of how it looks, but it has excellent facilities and is all round a great place to stay. They were chosen "Best Hotel in Richmond" as well as "Best Brunch" by Richmond News readers for 2003. I stayed there for just over a week in September 2003 while I attended a convention for the show Stargate SG-1. And I?ll be back again this summer! It?s also fairly convenient for Vancouver and the surrounding area if you?d rather not stay downtown. Facilities include a shop with some lovely souvenirs, an Internet café, hair salon and an exercise room with saunas (and a washing machine which I only discovered after I?d lugged my bags several blocks to the local laundrette!). There is a pool and Jacuzzi in the courtyard but they are small. Reception can also fix you up...

Moonrising 06.03.2004 · Read review
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An American Tale

Advantages: Well-crafted songs telling poignant tales; great musicianship; evocative pedal steel
Disadvantages: None to speak of

..."Post to Wire" is Richmond Fontaine's fifth studio album and the one that really turned me onto the band. Previously the Portland-based quartet were associated with dark, brooding lyrics and a much blacker feel, but "Post to Wire" really highlights not just the band's ability to compose across genres but the strengths of songwriter and frontman, Willy Vlautin, in creating vivid snapshots of the contemporary west. Labelled "Americana" or "alt-country" by a music press that always feels the need to pigeonhole, the band have developed the genre, and cemented their position in it, where the likes of Uncle Tupelo or Wilco left off. By more use of the pedal steel, the band has taken more of a country direction but Vlautin's stories of people living ordinary lives on the margins of society have ensured the band stay firmly...

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Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales

Advantages: Rich in history, Beautiful countryside, Georgian architecture
Disadvantages: Difficult and expensive to park

..."Richmond is a town unlike others, a place unique, rich in relics of the past. It is too good to be passed by." Alfred Wainwright. Richmond is a small market town in North Yorkshire, on the edge of the Dales, and if you believe what you read in Lonely Planet guides, then it is one of the great undiscovered towns of England as far as visitors are concerned. This might be a little odd when you consider the popularity of the Dales and that the proximity of the town to the A1 (just 4 miles away) makes it easily accessible as a day trip location from a large part of the North East and Yorkshire. Indeed, I travelled down from Newcastle for the day (lured by the promise of a living history event) and it took me little more than an hour to find the town, although it unfortunately felt like it took me the same amount of time to find...

Collingwood21 20.12.2005 · Read review
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We all love a bit of sausage!

Advantages: Taste great
Disadvantages: High Salt Level

...No main meal for me is a meal unless it contains meat of some sort, so for me the sausage is a great food. No matter what type of dinner you have planned the good old fashioned sausage as got to be up there in the top five when it comes to versatile foods. Buying fresh sausages is more or less a safe bet when it comes to freshness quality. You can see, touch and smell the sausage so you can get a good idea of what the cooked product will turn out like. Buying frozen on the other hand does not give these three advantages, so I look to buy a name I can trust in, for me that comes with the Richmond brand of sausages. Richmond do a varied range of sausage products like their Thin, Skinless and Thick sausages.They have now added Thick Irish Recipe Sausages to their frozen product range available to buy from shopping outlets. They currently...

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Richmond! Rich-WHAT! Richmond! Rich-WHAT!

Advantages: Amazing film, great extras
Disadvantages: Poor soundtrack

...Since I heard about this basketball-related film, I've wanted to see it, but never got round to watching it, until now. When I finally saw it, I realised that I had been missing out. "Coach Carter" is a 2005 film starring Samuel L. Jackson, distributed by Paramount, produced by MTV Films. The plot is based on a true story which followed the actions of Coach Ken Carter and his 1999 Richmond (, California) High-School basketball team. Plot The film is based on a true story and it is surprising how many of the scenes are based on actual events which occurred in real-life. You won't believe them until you actaully see th real Ken Carter in the extras, talking about the real events. Just so you know, this contains spoilers. The film is set in Richmond, California in a inner-city public school. As we begin the film, we...

XICripZ 21.10.2007 · Read review
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Richmond, North Yorks - The Original

Advantages: The Herriot Connection, Good base to explore the Dales
Disadvantages: Poor shopping, Can feel isolated if you live there

...Ah, the area of my birth and upbringing. And when I was asked where I came from and replied 'Richmond' I was always greeted with 'You don't sound like you're from Surrey'. Well that's because I'm not - I'm from the original. There is a famous song in the area 'Lass of Richmond Hill' - not about me though! LOCATION Richmond is situated in North Yorkshire just off the A1 approx': 49 miles North-West of York 52 miles South of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. The nearest train station is Darlington (approx 13 miles away) from which there are regular buses to Richmond Town Centre. The nearest airport is Teesside International Airport (approx 17 miles away) Car parking in Richmond can get very busy, especially in the height of summer. The town is based around a large Market Square where there is limited car parking...

BizzyBek 21.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of Richmod (England)

Helpful staff - great clothes

Advantages: If you've seen it in Vogue then you can buy it here!
Disadvantages: Pricey - not practical

...Matches in Richmond is an absolutely fabulous place to shop. A great selection of the most fashionable clothes - and the staff are very helpful. They often have a sale rail too if you're not feeling that flush. A word of warning though - the clothes are not always suitable for everyday wear and tear - but who cares when you can look like a film star? Clothes for men and women can be bought here - as can shoes and accesories. I've bought a couple of pairs of boots from here and loved them both! They promise to have a web site soon too: http://www.matches.co.uk/. Matches also own the Max Mara shops in Richmond and Wimbledon - also worth a visit but the clothes aren't quite as cutting edge but luxorious all the same!...

EmmaJ 28.12.2000 (21.12.2000) · Read review
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Review of Matches, Richmond

Yum yum gimme some

Advantages: Very good food.
Disadvantages: Loos are upstairs so this restaurant may be unsuitable for disabled people.

...If you like Chinese food and live in the Richmond area in Greater London, you must try this restaurant. I went there for the second time recently and once again the food was wonderful. There is the usual selection of Chinese standards on the extensive menu, noodles and rice… dumplings… sweet and sours… stir-fries… you will be sure to find something to your taste. We had one of the set meals. This consisted of hors d’oeurves, followed by hot and sour soup, then the best Peking duck I have ever had. The main courses consisted of rice, with a selection of dishes including stir-fry chicken, stir-fry vegetables, sweet and sour pork and fried squid. Toffee apples rounded off this gluttony, for the all-in price of £12.50 per person. We had the house white to drink; this was reasonably priced and quite...

spankygoodtime 26.07.2001 · Read review
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