Making a present of the past

Advantages: Inactive and involving insight into life, times and customs of yester-year
Disadvantages: Being mostly open air, it's not much fun in the rain and cold.

...Just north of Chichester, in the tiny village of Singleton, you?ll find the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. The museum is almost like a small village in itself as it?s made up of nearly 50 ancient buildings which have been moved from all over the south of England and rebuilt on the site of the museum. There are medieval shops, ancient cottages, a watermill, a treadmill, a toll house as well as various farm houses and barns all ?collected? from Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, and Surrey. Many of these buildings are likely to have been lost forever were it not for the launch of the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in 1967 by a group of enthusiasts. It?s all set in a truly lovely environment of rolling Sussex hills. All in all, the grounds of the museum make up around 50 acres of countryside. If you?re ever in the area - or want to make...

Bollinger28 25.03.2009 (22.03.2009) · Read review
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Review of The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Sussex, England

The Garden of England

Advantages: All in opinion
Disadvantages: All in opinion

...of Swanscombe woman and Stone Age man.The east is even richer - here landed Hengist & Horsa,Julius Caesar,St Augustine,Saxons and Danes. 2)The North Downs:This is the most dramatic area scenically of the Kent landscape,running in a broad diagnol from the Surrey border across the middle of the county to spill into the Channel in the famous chalk cliffs between Folkstone & Dover.The downs has panoramic views as far as the eyes can see - lost villages and wild wooded dells - the truest wilderness in Kent are a feature of this part of the county. 3)The weald of Kent:marked by the north by the Ragstone or Greensland Ridge running from Westerham & Seven Oaks underneath Maidstone almost as far as Ashford,this rich,rural farmland sweeps south & west far into Sussex .It is essentially picture postcard Kent - mediaval villages with their timbered...

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Review of Hotel Kent, Roma

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Advantages: nice place to visit
Disadvantages: none

...Tunbridge Wells- A Nice Town to visit The official name is Royal Tunbridge Wells and it is in the West part of the county of Kent. You will find Tunbridge Wells along the northern part of the High Weald and it borders on to Surrey,West Sussex and East Sussex .Tunbridge Wells is graced with woodlands and parkland. The larger area of woodland is the Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall Common that is 250 acres in size and it has wood and heathland and is situated near the town centre. This area is very popular with people and in the summer there are many who go there to picnic. Near by is the cricket ground which you will find near Wellington Rocks Calvery Grounds which is a historic park where there you find a bandstand and ornamental gardens. This park was part of the Mount Pleasant Estate where there was a house there which in...

ruth1957 06.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Tunbridge Wells (England)

Devil's Dyke - a Landscape as Dramatic as its name

Advantages: Accessible, beautiful, free
Disadvantages: Can get busy in high season

...~~~Why Bother Visiting?~~~ Think of Brighton and you think of hens and stags, mods and rockers, pubs and clubs, the Pier and the Pavilion. Yet Brighton is nestled between the sea and the South Downs - the Downs may not compare to Lakeland or Snowdonia, but they are extraordinarily pretty, undulating, English countryside and they offer a welcome and accessible contrast to the noise and pretension of 'London by the Sea'. Devil's dyke is pretty much where Brighton meets the Downs so it's easy to get to (especially in summer when the open top bus is running, more anon), but it's no compromise either - the views and walks here are as good as anywhere on the South Downs. The view from the car park (and the pub) is extraordinary, with the Weald stretched out endlessly in almost 180°, and yet this is not the Dyke itself. A little walk from...

sonic0209 31.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Devil`s Dyke (Brighton)

Welcome to Midhurst - cursed no more!

Advantages: Interesting architecture and buildings. Fascinating history. Pleasant surrounding countryside.
Disadvantages: Heavy traffic through the town in summer months. Can be hard to park.

...vintage and modern car events (The Festival of Speed and the Revival Meeting). There is also the architecture of Goodwood House to appreciate if historical buildings are of interest. And not forgetting the nearby Weald and Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, which houses legions of historical buildings. (http://travel.ciao.co.uk/TheWealdandDownlandOpenAirMuseumSingletonSussexEnglandReview5824838). Chichester can be found within a short drive of 20 minutes and houses a famous cathedral, the Festival Theatre and Medieval Market Cross, as well as better shopping opportunities. (http://travel.ciao.co.uk/ChichesterWestSussexReview5804574). However, if you want to avoid the towns and appreciate the countryside, then Midhurst is surrounded by some really pretty villages such as Graffham, Heyshott, Stedham...

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Review of Midhurst in General

Bob, The name that covers everything

Advantages: Story, Drej, Perfect?
Disadvantages: None,

...Okay, there are very few films that i have never had a problem with (you know not one, you love the actors, the story, you can't pick holes at all) but there is all ways an exception, and this is one of them! To start the year is 3043, 15 years After Earth, after earth because the planet was destroyed by an alien race called the Drej, they are a hive mind, made of pure energy,and they will stop at nothing to destry the human race because of what the fear, the human imagination! The human race if now made up out of a few 'Drifter Colonies' ships that have been wealded together to form giaint homes for a group of people that are left. The human race has one hope left, and the drej know it too, its called the Titan, no-one knows what it is or what it does, it is the reason the Drej destroyed the earth and hunt down the humans...

stew_b 30.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Titan A.E. (DVD)

First in a trilogy

Advantages: Keeps you smiling
Disadvantages: None

...The first of this trilogy about Wallace and his dog Gromit sets the backdrop for the others. Living in an old terraced house complete with carpet slippers and knitted tank top the ordinary setting of this pair then takes an unusual turn. Gromit sits knitting or reading the newspaper in his own armchair, and also sits at table wealding a table knife over crackers & cheese or toast & jam. They discover their shortage of cheese & decide to fly to the moon to get some. So they build a rocket in the cellar - the antics here made me giggle but also a strong appreciation of those extra bits of detail - like the typical unshaded light bulb swinging or the mice with sunglasses watching the ascent. The antics on the moon were very original though simple and yet so catching as you wonder what will develop. Needless to say they get their...

concat 31.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Wallace And Gromit - A Grand Day Out

Good old sussex by the sea

Advantages: Varied attractions, beautiful scenery, quiet
Disadvantages: none

...The traditionnal song of Brighton and Hove Albion F.C. and what better way to describe this glorious county. What is even better is that it is not too far from London yet it has none of the smug, dull Home Counties conformity that Surrey or Hertfordshire has. There is a definite distinct Southern English identity different from London and its environs.A warm May weekend spent in the Sussex countryside is a pleasure to wish for dearly in the middle of this cold, bleak January! The attractions are manifold, the rolling, softness of the Downs in summer (and their bleak beauty in Winter), the eclectic alternative nature of Brighton standing side by side with the faded gentility of Eastbourne and the charming old town of Hastings, the charming towns of Arundel, Steyning, Rye and Lewes and the delights of Ashdown Forest and the Weald. Sussex...

blinderben 12.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Sussex (England)

A Giant Leap Up From Harvester

Advantages: Friendly staff, has my favourite wine, delicious food
Disadvantages: A little expensive

...to provide good food in friendly surroundings. The food portions are very big (I usually share starters and desserts). The prices are a little on the expensive side, but you get what you pay for. Just to give an idea of prices, here are some ideas:- Starters: Lowest - £4.50, highest - £10.95 (for a combo to share), average starter price is somewhere around £5. Main courses: Lowest - £8.95, highest - £16.50, average price is somewhere around £11 to £12. I can't really remember prices of desserts and they are not on the restaurant's website for some reason, but as far as I can remember, they were perhaps similar prices to the starters. Locations of Blubeckers are:- Besselsleigh, Oxfordshire Bolney Village, West Sussex Cadnam, Hampshire Chobham, Surrey Hampton Court, Surrey Harrow Weald, Middlesex Gomshall Mill...

lolly1981 16.11.2006 (20.11.2006) · Read review
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Review of Blubeckers Restaurant

Ronnie Barker in silent shocker?

Advantages: I guess it's nice to see familiar faces
Disadvantages: Annoying, unfunny, jangling music

...a battleground with guns and cannons blazing. I also found the constant grunting instead of talking from characters very frustrating - I would rather they hadn't made any sound at all. There is, unusually for comedies of this period, an extra with the DVD in the form of an audio commentary by director Bob Kellet. This is quite interesting to begin with; unfortunately, Kellett is a very poor speaker and stutters and stammers his way through the commentary, making it very hard to listen to, especially when it goes on for as long as the film. I did pick up one or two interesting facts though - the house known in the film as Futtocks End is actually W S Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame)'s house in Harrow Weald. It really is a beautiful location. At the time of filming, the house had been empty for years and was about to be sold - I really hope...

sunmeilan 26.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Futtock's End (DVD)