Advantages: Lovely Little Island Disadvantages: Poor Beaches
When your best friend decides to spend a year living in a foreign land, it is a great excuse to go travelling. Throw in a free bed, reduced flights through my job and a bank holiday weekend and it seemed stupid not to fly out to Athens for the second time this year. My girlfriend and I had previously been out in January and had done most of the big things that Athens has to offer but this time my future sister-in-law and her boyfriend joined us so we did them all again but as we were in country for a day longer and we wanted to do something new and exciting, we decided to visit the island of Aegina.
Aegina is the biggest island in the Sarconic Gulf and is located about 30 miles off shore from Athens. It has had quite an interesting history throughout ancient times where it was once a major power alongside Athens but today it is ...
StereoMike1983 15.05.2007
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Advantages: Some great mini-games that really show off the MotionPlus accessory Disadvantages: Expensive to fully kit out two remotes. One or two less compelling mini-games
INTRODUCTION
Our Nintendo Wii has been hibernating under our TV, gathering dust since shortly after Christmas. The Wii party games made a brief appearance for the holidays and the shine of Wii Fit wore off after our New Year?s resolutions met with their usual success and longevity (i.e. none). It?s a fab console, but it?s very ease of ?pick up and play? makes it just as easy to ignore in favour of other pursuits. However, we were intrigued by the promise and novelty of the new Wii MotionPlus gadget, and when Wii Sports Resort (WSR) ? essentially Wii Sports 2 ? was announced, it was immediately added to our Wish List. As such, I was delighted when I received it for my birthday last week, and It has played a part in our nightly entertainment since.
WHAT?S IN THE BOX
WSR comes packaged with the game (in its own DVD ...
Advantages: Right on the beach, great views Disadvantages: None...eventually
We'd had some pretty good hotels on our trip to Andalucia, and we hoped that the hotel we had picked for our final three days wouldn't be any different. We wanted a comfortable room in a hotel on the beach with a nice sea view, but nothing too remote so that we could still enjoy all the facilities of a resort. Did we get what we wanted?
Well, read on...
We booked the HOTEL PERLA MARINA, in the town of NERJA, through bancotel.com. This is a Spanish based travel site whereby you purchase 'cheques' for 50 euros each. Depending on the hotel, season etc, a room costs between 1-3 cheques per night. This can mean savings of over 60% in some cases.
Being the intrepid bargain hunter (some would say tight-fisted git) that I am, I managed to book a series of 3 and 4 star hotels for 50 euros. This hotel was no exception.
Nerja is around ...
