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Advantages: Good announcements Disadvantages: Generally packed trains
All of my life I have lived a train ride away from London. Working from the age of 16, I have spent the best part of 9 years travelling to and from the City to get to work. Fortunately for me I learnt to drive when I was 17, and for some time was able to avoid the Connex-controlled route from my old town of Welling to London Bridge.
However, moving to Chelmsford saw me take a job in the centre of town ? literally a 10 minute drive from home. Talk about bliss! No more hour-long traffic jams, or waiting in all weather for the train to pull in late again. What could possibly go wrong? I shouldn?t have asked, because within six months a company takeover saw me transferred to a London based office, and with some trepidation I started to catch the train to work again.
After several years of being subjected to Connex South Eastern ...
Advantages: great selection, good variety Disadvantages: somehow mistitled, mostly traditional stuff
Rough Guide, best known for their budget travel guides, has been steadily expanding in other areas, and has been responsible for quite a few musical "guides" over the years.
This 1998 album, marketed as "Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe", does pretty much exactly what is says on the package: provides quite a wide ranging overview of folk and (occasionally) folk-inspired music of Eastern Europe. This is an album that pretty much started my liking for "world music" coming from my part of the world, and despite its age it remains a good compilation which really does showcase the variety of what's on offer quite well.
One thing that this "Rough Guide" album needs is perhaps a better definition of what is considered Eastern Europe: this is a surprisingly woolly category (I always remember somebody commenting than Poland ...
Advantages: Brilliantly written.Good performances Disadvantages: Genre has its limitated appeal
Eastern Promises is a crime thriller directed by Daviid Cronenberg and stars Naomi Watts,Viggo Mortensen,Vincent Cassel and Armin Mueller-Stahl in principal roles.
The film starts with a pregnant young girl asking for help in a pharmacy who soon dies after giving birth to a daughter.Anna(played by Naomi Watts),a midwife at the hospital keeps the diary she found with the patient where she finds a card of a restaurant and decides to go visit that place to know more about the young girl who died.
As it turns out, the restaurant is run by a family of underworld don(which she is completely unaware of),who actually molested/raped the young girl who died earlier.Since Anna can't read the language of the diary,Semyon(the don himself who only appears to be a very respectable family man) offers his help to translate the diary for her. By ...
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