Advantages: Close to The Beach Disadvantages: The Rooms in the Original Building are Quite Dated
The Choice...
My passion for browsing holiday brochures on cold dismal nights continued, the hubby fancied the Cyclades- a group of Greek Islands scattered across the Aegean sea of Greece - for a change from our usual choices of Crete, and Kos etc.- and as ever it was left to me to choose the appropriate dwelling for our two weeks.away. I decided on Naxos, only accessible by ferry via a chartered flight to Mykonos (if partaking in a package), the largest Island in the Cyclades..
The week before Christmas of 2004 I booked and paid a small deposit of £90 to Kosmar - a Greek holiday specialist in the UK - the balance of £600 was due the following June - plenty of time to save. The hubby wanted to book flights and accommodation separately but I like the security of a package holiday!
The Outbound Journey
We leave Brum ...
gizmogizmo 31.10.2006 (03.03.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hotel Spiros, Naxos
Advantages: Has a certain nostalgic humour. Disadvantages: Dated drivel
In my review of ‘Beowulf’ I may have intimated that it was the worst film that I had ever seen, I should have known better. No matter how bad a film is, there will be a worse one along in a moment, and this is it.
‘Guest House Paradiso’, directed by Ade Edmonson, starring Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall, is an hour and a half of violent, lavatorial behaviour, unencumbered by any perceptible plotline or moment of real humour.
#~ The Plot ~#
The story, such as it is, revolves around Richard Twat, pronounced Thwaite, (Mayall) and his assistant, Eddie (Edmonson) as the proprietors of the cheapest and worst guest house in Britain. Sited on an unnamed windswept coast, alongside a leaky nuclear power station, Guest House Paradiso attracts only the poor and the desperate.
As Twat’s only ambition ...
Advantages: Beautifully written, complex characters, thought provoking Disadvantages: Time consuming
Anna Karenina is one of Leo Tolstoy?s best known and best loved works. The novel enjoys continued influence in today?s society and although it was written almost two centuries ago, the continued relevance of its central themes makes the book as provocative now as the day it was written.
The main theme of the novel seems to be that of happiness. Yet it does not simply deal with the shallow emotion but with human fulfilment of life. This idea is best shown through the sharply contrasting characters of Anna and Levin. The character of Anna has beauty, charm and wealth, yet finds her life to be completely unsatisfying. Her choice to begin an affair with the officer Vronsky is a decision to struggle against this feeling of emptiness. The consequences are heartbreaking with the happiness she so desperately seeks continually eluding her ...
