To Roam aroun Rome by a Roma Pass!

Advantages: Queue jumping, don't have to worry about entrance fees
Disadvantages: Can not be cost effective

...The Roma Pass was something a work colleague mentioned to me, although she did not know the name just there was some card thing that gets you benefits. So I looked up things to do in Rome and eventually came across the website for the Roma Pass through a link from another website. The Roma Pass website is: http://www.romapass.it/?l=en The website gave me a great insight as to what the card was, there are 2 types of cards, so it explains what both offer and how much they cost. The standard (red) Roma Pass costs 23 Euros, and the Roma & Piu (blue) Pass costs 25 Euro's. The website goes on to have tabs for museums, events, a virtual tour, information, download and buy. I opted not to buy ours online, and decided I would get them when there. The website sells the cards with this strap line "The Cards that offers you...

Absy_Baby 28.07.2009 · Read review
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When in Romas (Tony's, that is)

Advantages: Walking distance from home
Disadvantages: Not worth walking to

...Let's get one thing straight right away. Tony Romas doesn't have a restaurant in Edinburgh but there is a newly opened one in Livingston. Can the ciao database be wrong? It hardly bears thinking about. Anyway, Livingston is close enough to Edinburgh as far as I'm concerned and it should be for you too. Phase 3 of Livingston's town centre opened just in time for Xmas last year and one of the features was an outdoor 'promenade' of sorts featuring a number of restaurant chains including Nandos, Wagamama, Chiipolatas (or some such Mexican-type thing) among others. Among the others is Tony Romas. I can't say I was all that tempted by chicken piri-pri or guacamachillilitos, so Tony Romas it was to be. Livingston is just the place for a corporate branded, characterless chain restaurant - we don't do quaint or cute here. So shiny...

proxam 16.08.2009 · Read review
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Bone China by Roma Tearne

Advantages: Interesting easy to read novel
Disadvantages: None

...The author, Roma Tearne, was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Britain when ten years old. Before becoming a writer she trained as a painter and her work has been widely exhibited. Bone China is her second book and is a very enjoyable and moving story, following four generations of the de Silva family, from the 1930's onwards. The de Silva's are a Tamil family living in Ceylon, or Sri Lanka as it was. Grace is the family matriarch to a somewhat dysfunctional family and is the link that bonds all the characters of the book. Grace was born into a rich land owning family but she marries Aloysius for love and watches with great dignity as, over the years, he drinks and gambles away her family's fortune. Always trying to maintain the traditions and customs of her time, in a country every increasingly torn apart by political and civil...

perfectlypolished 14.04.2008 · Read review
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The Rise of the Mighty Roma Empire

Advantages: Fabulous, home made, traditional Italian food
Disadvantages: Valentines Day wasnt indicative of the quality you usually find

...I am sated, the fires of my desires have been quashed, I am ecstatic with the sensational feeling of a full belly. Music is the food of love so they say, but for me, food is love! The way to this girls heart is definitely through her stomach ( and your wallet if you're rich enough!) Hence I spent the evening of St Valentines in a wonderful little Italian restaurant in the Kingswood area of Bristol. Well apparently its part of South Gloucester now, but no one ever notices that! Roma is a fantastic little restaurant anyway, and I'll tell you more about that later. But at the moment I'm concentrating on that Valentine set menu. Its usually quite difficult to get a table in Roma on a Saturday, so we were happily surprised to get a table at 9.00pm, it has to be said, it isn't the biggest place in the world! When we got there we could...

Emma1973 02.03.2004 · Read review
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Central and Ideally Placed, Hotel Roma Reial

Advantages: Perfect location, excellent Hotel if you just want somewhere to sleep
Disadvantages: A little hard to find, nothing really major though, Breakfast could have been more substantial

...for a cheap hotel to lay your head this is certainly one I'd recommend, central and ideally located for pretty much everything. Hotel Roma Reial Placa Reial, 11 08002 Barcelona http://www.go2spain.co.uk/accomhtml/Roma-Reial.htm...

Andy.mack 24.02.2006 · Read review
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Fluval Roma 90 Aquarium

Advantages: Good starter pack or for those with limited space
Disadvantages: lid a little fiddly

...The Roma 90 Aquarium is an almost complete starter pack for setting up your own tropical aquarium. Of course it would also be suitable as a cold water aquarium without the heater. The package includes: Aquarium size 60cm long x 35cm wide x 45cm high (90 litres) Roma 90 - Fluval 2 Internal Filter Tronic Heater 100watt Fluval GLO lighting: 1x15 watt PowerGlo & 1x15 watt AquaGlo lighting tubes LCD thermometer Fluval Aquarium Care Guide 100ml Nutrafin Aqua Plus & Cycle 26g Nutrafin Tropical Flake food This is a good starter aquarium or a good small aquarium when you have limited space. Unlike many other all inclusive starter packs this tank is of sufficient size to comfortably accommodate two fancy gold fish or a good number of smaller fish. All the included products are brand leaders and it has the look and feel...

tameboy 06.11.2008 · Read review
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Sharing my experience of the Sheraton Roma

Advantages: Comfortable hotel - handy for the metro
Disadvantages: Characterless - can be expensive

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proxam 28.06.2009 · Read review
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ROMA at your Leisure

Advantages: double oven, one fan assisted oven, clock/minute minder
Disadvantages: flimsy control knobs

...be taken out (pulled out of a slot) for easier cleaning. Cooker has separate indicator lights for top and for main oven. The cooker also features clock/programmer for the main oven with the following functions (besides showing you the time, of course): · Minute minder – can set time period of up to 23 hours 59 minutes that will countdown. When it reaches zero, it bleeps. So, if your pizza needs 12 minutes, set to 12 and it will bleep when they are finished, so you can take it out. · Cook Period – you can set the time for how long you want the food to cook – pop the casserole in, set for 2 hours and after that time the oven will switch itself off. · End Time – you set for how long the food needs cooked (as above) and then also when do you want the cooking to end. Then you set your temperature and put...

marsupialmama 24.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Leisure ROMA20

Leisure ROMA 100 with fantastic Ceramic hob

Advantages: Plenty of room to cook a complete roast dinner
Disadvantages: Dubious seals around the oven doors and variable cooking

...This oven is a range style cooker which to me, in size, is a compromise between the large 110cm width ones, whilst being a much more efficient use of space than a 90 cm option. This model is 100cm wide and has two ovens - one fan and one conventional oven. It also has a grill, and a storage compartment. The top is a glass ceramic hob with five rings - 2 large rings, 2 small, and a multisized one in the middle - this can be a small ring or you can make it super large if you are cooking with a wok or a very large pan. This is done by a simple extra click on the control knob. At the right hand side of the hob is a warming zone which is very handy for warming plates, or keeping veg warm. I have to say that overall I am not totally satisfied with my oven. It is the only one I wanted at the time in the price bracket. The biggest reason was...

willliz1975 24.12.2006 · Read review
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Ciao Roma - good food, terrible attitude

Advantages: Good food
Disadvantages: Deliberate attempt to rip us off by overcharging

...I went to Ciao Roma in a group of 21 people for my birthday meal. The food was fine, better than the average Italian restaurant. The service, however, was appalling. The service was slow all night, not just the slow relaxed service you expect when you're in a big party having fun, but very, very slow. And when the bill came, it was nearly £1000. We checked the bill and were surprised to see that our party of 21 had been charged for 25 starters and 43 main courses, but we assumed it was an error and asked them to sort it out. They said the bill was correct. We explained that 21 people wouldn't have eaten 25 starters and 43 main courses and asked them to correct it. They said the bill was correct and that we'd have to pay the full amount. Of course, there was no way we were paying for 4 extra starters and 22 extra main...

Flossiesdoll 05.08.2008 · Read review
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