After sun and bath...

Advantages: Moisturising
Disadvantages: None

...Hawaiian tropic complete care after sun after bath I tend to buy a lot of the Hawaiian tropic products when we go abroad because i like the smell and they remind me of holidays spent in the sunshine. I had never tried this one before but decided it was worth a go because I have never had any problems with the products before. WHAT DOES IT DO? Since this doesn't just market itself as an after sun, but rather as complete body care, i am expecting something great from it, although even before I use it, I do expect it to be merely an after sun/moisturiser...not cynical, merely a realist. This is an after sun/after bath product so I believe that makes it the kind of product which can be used all year round as a body moisturiser, unless it is for after the bath when you have previously spent the day on the sun. I digress... the product...

danielalong 21.08.2008 · Read review
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Taste of Tropical

Advantages: taste, price, texture
Disadvantages: /

...of the latest editions I tried is the Muller Healthy Balance Corner: Tropical and Granola. The Healthy Balance Corners have been available for a while, but only recently have they introduced the 'and Granola' range. Before trying the tropical one, I had sampled the strawberry option, which I adored. There is also a raspberry one but I am struggling to find it. With such a great success from the strawberry and granola corner though, I was looking forward to this one incredibly. These Healthy Balance options come in a pack of two, unlike the other Corners which are sold either separately or in a multi pack of six. The yoghurt, this time like the rest of the Corners, comes in a white split pot, albeit slightly smaller than usual. The cardboard sleeve around it is a bright red colour, with 'Healthy Balance' written in large white block lettering...

Amy69 14.10.2009 · Read review
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Totally Tropical

Advantages: Educational, unusal, great value for money
Disadvantages: Not great for younger kids

...Tropical World is situated at the Roundhay Village end of Leeds Roundhay Park. It is an intriguing combination of winter gardens and zoo with a series of expertly created landscapes such as Amazonian rainforest, Australasian desert and swamps for the visitor to explore. Curiously - sine the theme is short-lived, you embark on your trip via the "HMS Tropical World" - not a ship at all just a concept - and the first stop is a tropical beach scene; rather disappointingly there is not much to see here, just a mock up of a tropical beach. It's at this point that everyone takes off their hats and coats in preparation for the heat and humidity that lies ahead. Each ecosystem is home to the birds, fish, insects, plants and trees that would live there; obviously there are some limitations - this is not a zoo and it is all indoors so there...

fizzytom 27.03.2007 · Read review
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A TROPICAL DELIGHT

Advantages: A great Juice for a fantastic price.
Disadvantages: None

...-0- TESCO TROPICAL JUICE DRINK -0- I do most of my shopping in Tesco as it is very near my home. If I am in Brighton City Centre I will then go to Waitrose or Marks and Spencer. But to be honest, Tesco has just about everything that I could want, food wise and all under one roof. I also buy online with Tesco if I am quite busy any particular week. What I think is great about Tesco is that they offer a 'Value' range for people on a bit of a budget. These items from the value range are extremely good on the whole and excellent value too. On our last shopping trip we purchased amonst other things a 2 litre bottle of Tesco Tropical Juice Drink. It was a good size bottle and costing only 99p. I get through quite a lot of juice and usually get Tropicana or Tesco finest, which is rather expensive. But the colour of this Tropical Juice...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 29.12.2008 · Read review
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TROPICAL FRESHNESS

Advantages: softens clothes. leaves them smelling great
Disadvantages: none i can think of

...the same apart from the fragrance. Sometimes ill just choose a bottle simply because I like the colour of the fabric softener inside it; a bit weird I know but hey each to their own. I suppose you can say that I'm as addicted to fabric softeners as I am to perfumes. I first bought Comfort Tropical Burst a month or so ago from Tesco's, the reason I immediately purchased it was because it was on a special introductory offer and only cost £0.95 for a massive 1.5litre bottle, which would last me well over a week considering it is much bigger than the usual 750ml bottles I tend to purchase. As you can see from the picture at the top of this review the bottle of Fabric Softener is supplied in a tall see through plastic bottle, which has a curvy shape to it. On the top of the bottle there is a bright orange screw on/off lid which also acts as...

just.bcoz 15.04.2008 (13.04.2008) · Read review
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Tropic Thunder review

Advantages: Funny, Great trailers at the start
Disadvantages: Does drag a bit

..."Tropic Thunder" is Ben Stiller's first film as director since 2001's Zoolander, which this film does share some similarities. It stars himself, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black as different kinds of fictitious actors working on a war film called "Tropic Thunder", and all for different reasons. Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) is a Australian actor with a short temper (wonder who that's based on?) and is known as a very serious, method actor. He's already won 5 academy awards and really likes to immerse himself in a role. In Tropic Thunder, he has his skin dyed dark to play the role of Osiris, the platoons black Sergeant. Jack Black is a comedy actor named Jeff "Fatty" Portnoy who is mainly known for his "The Fatties" films, which are basically just non-stop farting for 90 mins. He takes on this role to try and be seen as a serious...

Walter_Kovacs 31.12.2008 · Read review
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5* Star All The Way

Advantages: Everything on one site
Disadvantages: Not enough time

...Before I had a complete breakdown we decided it was about time we took a long deserved holiday, I was willing to go anywhere as long as I could sit and vegetate by a pool with a book for a week, and not be anywhere associated with the working environment, as I have been working seven days a week. Therefore, we decided the breezy isle of Lanzarote for our family holiday. We booked through first choice and paid what seemed an arm and a leg for one-week half board in an apartment which was 5*, which slept four. The price was just over £1,000 for two adults and one child. The only down side of not visiting lanzarote before, was we had not pre conceptions of what to expect especially since we booked The Sun Tropical Apartments which were only completed at the end of May. My only thought was they finished. Were there builders on your...

Zoe30 17.09.2003 · Read review
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The Sun also surprises

Advantages: Successful, professional, knows its market
Disadvantages: Brash, trivial, scurrilous, simplistic, self-congratulatory

...It is, I think, a good idea to confront one's prejudices from time to time, and it would be hard to be more prejudiced than I am against The Sun newspaper. I hardly ever see The Sun in the usual way of things, let alone read it, yet if you asked me to describe it I would have no difficulty in trotting out at least a dozen derogatory adjectives, the most polite of which you will see listed as "Cons" in the summary points above. The fact that The Sun is part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire only serves to redouble my bias against it. The trouble is that I'm such a sad case of bleeding-heart liberal that I'm not truly content to live with knowing I'm prejudiced. So when I saw that the Ciao competition for May was for reviews on sun-related topics, I decided it was time I bought a few issues of The Sun and made a serious attempt...

torr 28.05.2005 (16.06.2005) · Read review
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A zoo for all the family! Tropical Wings

Advantages: Fun, educational
Disadvantages: Only half a day, can be crowded

...Tropical Wings is a small zoo/butterfly house and is in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. I visited for about the third time earlier today. It is near Southend and Chelmsford and the website has directions about how to get there from these places. We visited and found that it was very busy and had to go in the overflow car park, most of the visitors were elderly or families with children. It was very busy but I suppose it was because it was in the summer holiday. At the entrance is the gift shop which sells various bits and bobs but nothing particularly great. There is a desk where you pay admission fees which are £7.75 for adults and £4.75 for children and family tickets are also available at a discounted price. The first thing in Tropical Wings is the Tropical House which is one of the largest butterfly houses in the UK. It is very...

mariofan123 22.07.2009 · Read review
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Empire of the Sun

Advantages: Different and really visual
Disadvantages: Hard to appreciate

... Discovery As far as music goes, I love it all, I always find my taste varying as I discover new artists, I love rock, pop, hip hop, old and new, everything. Empire of the Sun is something really different. I discovered them about three or four months ago when one of the songs was played on the radio and I was desperate to hear more. I could not find out who they were and eventually the tune faded from my head, when I then stumbled across the song again I remembered as many words a possible and Googled the lyrics, found out who they were and bought their album from Amazon. Who are they? Empire of the Sun are an Australian duo who formed in 2007 but have only recently started coming out of the woodwork in Britain with some of their songs being played on the radio waves, and also more and more regularly their songs are...

amyloop 25.10.2009 (16.11.2009) · Read review
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