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Advantages: Pleasant reading Disadvantages: Won't win any literary prizes
Although brought up in the country, I have spent most of my adult life in one city or another, often overseas. As such, a reminder of my childhood and country life are always deeply welcome. I have long been a fan of books by Miss Read about the Cotswold villages of Thrush Green and Fairacre, and when I noticed this series by Rebecca Shaw, a much more up to date description of villagelife, I was sure I would enjoy. The book is one of a series about the inhabitants of a village called Turnham Malpas and is particularly centred around the doings of the rector and his wife, as well as other characters.
The story
The villagers are all invited to a reception at the home of Craddock Fitch, a local entrepreneur who is not particularly liked. Everyone is shocked to discover that the reason for the reception is to celebrate his marriage to ...
Advantages: Luxurious, watersports, great lagoon, good food Disadvantages: Extra food and drinks expensive, no snorkelling in lagoon
The Hilton Dahab is a fairly green hotel spread across the Dahab coastline. There is a nice golden sand beach, although it is too hot to walk on without shoes in summer, so I would recommend buying some beach/swimming shoes from the hotel shop. The lagoon in lovely for swimming and very walm, although there is little in terms of marine life. There is a dive centre (sinai divers) which can arrange diving and snorkelling trips and courses.
We were on Half board, which was a good deal as you could have a pizza or snack for lunch on the beach (expensive)! The breakfasts are hilton standards (fantastic) and the buffet dinners are also good.
There is a games room with billiards and table tennis which you can hire.
The rooms are in blocks, and are very comfortable, as you would expect from a 5* hotel. There may be an amount of walking to ...
fishydiver 15.07.2009
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Advantages: Atmosphere. Well produced - Escapist Disadvantages: Story line too unrealistic for me
Last week I came across one of those special offers in HMV (4 DVds for £20). It was end of the season sale and I picked up a film called "The Village" just to make up the numbers. It struck me as being some sort of clichéd horror film from the blurb on the cover and I didn't expect to be watching it in the very near future. But it was one of those DVDs that keep popping up every time I looked through my shelf of dozens of other unwatched movies. Well the other evening, it popped up again and I just put it in the machine without giving it too much thought. As I wasn't in the mood for thinking anyway, it would probably be an ideal film.
As we got into the film, enter the monster, well, a glimpse of it. It was supposed to be scaring me but even my wife, who makes me jump out of my skin with her sudden screams in scary movies, remained ...
derek-j-a 06.10.2005 (07.10.2005)
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