A cruise on Windermere

Advantages: No driving, fresh air, wonderful scenery
Disadvantages: May be a bit wet and windy up top depending on the weather

...Each time we go to the Lake District we go on at least one cruise on Lake Windermere and our last visit was no exception ? we took my mother in law on the journey from Bowness to Ambleside and she loved it! The people who run the cruises are a company called Windermere Lake Cruises ? I bet it didn?t take too long to think of that name! The company runs cruises across the lake between Bowness, Ambleside (Waterhead) and Lakeside. Bowness is a pretty holiday town which is the ?heart? of the Lake District. It has all sorts of shops from the traditional Tesco, Boots, Co-op and clothes shops to shops selling souvenirs of every kind. There are also plenty of cafes and restaurants here making it an interesting place to spend a couple of hours. Ambleside is a beautiful town full of interesting shops selling everything from books to...

SusanLesley 06.09.2009 · Read review
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  A Cruise to remember

Advantages: See all the ancient towns cities and temples
Disadvantages: The heat, but only if you let it grt to you

...During one of our holidays to Crocodile Island at Luxor in Egypt we signed up to go on a Nile Cruise with our tour operator, Thomsons. It was for four days and three nights and cost £330 all inclusive this included an outside cabin, (a window cabin), all meals some buffet some a la Carte, our own guide, (English speaking Egyptologist), all the trips and entrance charges to the temples and museums. We were so excited as we had not planned to do a cruise before we came to Egypt, but we were shown a short film and given all the details at our welcome rep meeting when we first arrived. They made the cruise sound so exotic and beautiful and yes they were right it was everything and more. We were advised on what we should wear and that we would need plenty of water as all the trips to the temples and museums would be at the hottest time...

yampy-uk 10.01.2006 · Read review
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Tom Cruise packs a samurai punch!!

Advantages: Great choreography and acting
Disadvantages: Too Americanised

..., their hired and captured Captain finds himself in the middle of a civil war battle of epic proportions, and comes to realise the true nature and importance of the samurai. The Cast and Performances Tom Cruise plays Captain Algren, and does so very well. The transition from 'gun-for-hire' without morals to a man appreciating the importance of values and ethics through seeing the samurai operate is well handled, and not just by Cruise. The samurai leader Katsumoto is played by Ken Watanabe, and matches Cruise in the emotional side of the acting. A good support cast comes in the strange combination of actors such as Timothy Spall and Billy Connolly, and William Atherton plays the American Colonel who has it in for Algren. The rest of the cast is superb, mostly playing samurai and their families, but also some political figures in...

pmcds 06.03.2008 · Read review
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Cruising on a Mission with Tom

Advantages: Great directing, great action stunts, good story, great acting.
Disadvantages: None!

...Another excellent film that I have recently purchased on DVD, is Mission Impossible 2. Not only is it a great action movie, reminding me sometimes of other great movies, like The Matrix and James Bond, but it has a fairly good storyline, as well as a bit of lovey dovey stuff. Tom Cruise is back playing Ethan Hunt, our Mission Impossible hero. Sequels are so much better when the original star is cast. So what’s the impossible mission this time? Doctor Nekhorvich (played by Rade Serbedzija), has found out that the company he works for, Biocyte, has developed a lethal form of influenza known as Chimera. They have also developed a cure for this (Bellerophon), and Doctor Nekhorvich learns that they plan to release Chimera into the population so that they can make huge profits on the cure, Bellerophon. He informs the head...

carolinesite 10.04.2001 · Read review
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Cruising On The Cheap

Advantages: Doesn't cost the earth, varied itinerary. Plenty to eat.
Disadvantages: Feels a bit like an up-market & mobile Butlins

...Like "JONYEE" who has also written about a similar cruise, I feel that at least one cruise is something you need to get out of your system. I would recommend an Airtours Cruise to anyone who isn't sure whether cruising is for them - that way they don't spend a king's ransom on something that turns out to be not to their taste. The Airtours Med cruises are centred around Palma in Mallorca. They can either be combined with a stay on the island, or taken alone. We opted for the former, since it cost hardly any more. The ship itself was a refurbished ex-Caribbean liner, hence the lower prices. The itinerary was demanding, with a full day somewhere different almost every day. However, in our case, the first leg involved 36 hours at sea to get to Ajaccio in Corsica. The journey was very boring, since I didn't want to sun-bathe, gamble...

BNibbles 18.12.2000 · Read review
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Casual Caribbean Cruising

Advantages: Excellent food, huge cabins, fabulous entertainment
Disadvantages: Expensive shore excursions, annoying ships photographer

...We have just returned from a 2 week cruise of the Caribbean with Ocean Village. It was fabulous. Anyone younger than 50 who thinks cruises are all old age pensioners having a 6 course dinner at the captain's table can think again - the company's logo is "Cruises for People who Don't do Cruises" and this is certainly true. I've detailed below all the facilities etc that are on board the ship but outline briefly here our experience. We flew from Manchester with Thomas Cook and they were great. You check your bags in at the desk and you don't see them again until they arrive at your cabin later that evening. When you get off the plane in Barbados a coach arrives and takes you from the tarmac direct to Bridgetown Port meaning you don't have to queue up at customs in the airport. On arrival at Bridgetown Port one you have signed...

miggmoggspud 13.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Ocean Village Cruise

CRUISING ...

Advantages: Entertaining & Fun (for all kids), Encourages Crawling & Cruising, Colourful, Versatile, 2 music modes, teaches dexterity, grows with child, multiple activities, ball holder
Disadvantages: Space requirements, volume, music is on the annoying side - only three songs, doesn't fold, potential safety hazard, heavy, batteries run out quickly

...Christopher has been rolling around, army crawling and attempting to get more and more mobile every day. His interest in his Entertainer has been dwindling, as he didn't want to be contained in it for more than a few minutes at a time. Christopher?s Granny saw the Fisher Price Crawl 'n Cruise Playground in Toys r Us and after seeing Christopher pull himself up on her sofa and bop around to some music whilst holding their remote control and changing channels, she thought it would make a good gift for him. ** ASSEMBLY ** This gym comes in no fewer than 16 parts, which must be connected, mostly with screws. My husband put it together in no time at all. No sighing, frustrated sounds or crumpled paper, either. Directions were clear and parts were easily identifiable. It took him almost 30 mins to do so using an electric screwdriver...

mysteryshopper2 06.09.2004 · Read review
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Tom Cruise in career best performance

Advantages: acting
Disadvantages: complex plot

...Tom Cruise leads a huge star cast in this WW2 drama based upon real events. In Hitler's Nazi Germany, there were a total of fifteen German attempts to take Hitler's life. This film follows one of the most amazing true life tales I have seen in a long long time: an ambitious attempt to overthrow Hitler by his own men. Tom Cruise stars as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a high up Nazi official who is one of a secret group planning to overthrow Hitler. An elaborate plan is decided upon, whereby Hitler must be killed, then his government overthrown. For such a plan to become reality, he will need allies in all areas of Nazi leadership, introducing a huge ensemble cast. This is really a very tense, highly strung thriller. The action scenes are sporadic which is fitting for this type of movie. The plot (based on real-life) is complex...

bruffyboy 04.05.2009 · Read review
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Freebird - Catamaran Cruises in Tenerife

Advantages: See the whales and dolphins close up, have an amazing swim in the sea.
Disadvantages: The boat ride is rough, there is a high risk of sickness.

...Freebird One - A Luxury Adventure *** WHAT IS IT? ***** This summer (2007), my family and I holidayed on the island of Tenerife. We wanted to experience a bit more than the hotel facilities, so after attending the Rep's welcome meeting, I decided to book the Freebird One Experience. Freebird Sailing was founded in 1994, specialising in cruises aboard a luxury 30-seater catamaran. They proud themselves with the title of being "the largest catamaran service in the Canary Islands" and whilst in Tenerife I witnessed no other catamaran passing us on the sea. There is also a Freebird 2 and a 3. The Freebird Two is about 25 metres long and has a passenger capacity of 126. This catamaran has six large netting areas at the front. These nets have nothing underneath and resemble a trampoline, except underneath is the deep...

mrsmopples 18.10.2007 (21.10.2007) · Read review
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Not Impossible for Tom Cruise

Advantages: Exciting action sequences
Disadvantages: A bit far fetched (suspend reality)

...Because of an over-run on his previous movie ?Eyes Wide Shut?, caused by the now notorious attention to detail demanded by its director, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise, currently one of the most bankable of Hollywood stars, has been away from our cinema screens for nearly a two year period. With Mission Impossible 2, Cruise is back, and back with a vengeance. From the heart-stopping opening sequence, in which a heavily muscled Cruise dangles by his fingertips from a precarious precipice (he does all his own stunts, by the way) it becomes abundantly clear that MI2 is a vehicle to show off the many talents of its leading star. And in fairness, Cruise does not disappoint. The original Mission Impossible movie was directed by Brian De Palma, and saw our hero resolutely and bravely leading his team on the trail of double agents in Prague...

the_mad_cabbie 24.12.2000 · Read review
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