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Advantages: It makes you appreciate your home comforts Disadvantages: Well, what can I say but AVOID IT!
Until we stayed at Serena we had never had such an awful, expensive & unsatisfactory holiday!
We stayed there through RCI, who received a very damning letter when we got back to the UK & as a result the offending hotel is no longer on their books but it should never have been - aren't they meant to inspect each resort?
This all happened a few years back & we have now recovered our faith in human nature.
Joe Vella leaves a lot to be desired. We made the mistake of paying initially by cc as we suspected not too much at the point of arrival. However, the state of reception should have been a give-away!
We went for 1/2 board as there isn't too much choice of eating establishment. What a mistake. The food was unpalletable. Xlendi had a lot of stray cats & now I kniw why they looked so well fed! They were grateful ...
Advantages: A powerful story Disadvantages: Quite traumatic
. Khadra has written two other books, In the Name of God and Wolf Dreams.
The story
In a war-torn Kabul run by the Taliban, the lives of its citizens are being slowly destroyed, particularly two couples; Mohsen and Zunaira, and Atiq and Musarrat. Mohsen had dreams of becoming a diplomat; Zunaira wanted to become a magistrate, now the two of them are living in poverty. Atiq is a prison guard, who spends his days with those condemned to death; then when he goes home in the evening, he is faced with his wife, Musarrat, who is slowly dying a long painful death.
Following a twist of fate, the two couples lives are intertwined. Can the new relationships forged help to save the couples from their seemingly cruel fate?
The characters
Mohsen and Zunaira are definitely the easiest couple to fathom. Both are young and educated; both had ...
Advantages: The location and price Disadvantages: Everything else - service, attitude, plumbing....
hotel – Albergo Serena. At 28 Euros / night for a city center location, it sounded perfect. The website even had a pretty picture of its gardens, and it figured in more than one guide book to the region as being an ok place to stay.
I arrived late at night so grabbed a taxi to the hotel. The driver knew exactly where it was without needing the address – always a good sign. I was greeted by a well lit entrance way down a small back street in Pisa, the only trouble being that the hotel was deserted. I eventually found a bell (after, I admit it, attempting to ring the ornamental one on display there) and following the shrill squeal, a very old man appeared. I wasn’t sure if he lived there or owned the place, because the building looked like it was a home as well as a hotel, but it turned out to be his place. He was not only ...
