© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-cr01 Recent reviews written by member cr01 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_475072532100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - The best legacy from John Major's UK Conservative government of the mid 90's, beyond the beginnings of the Northern Irish peace process was the foundation of the National Lottery. Having experienced the downsides first hand during my days in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475072532100 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:38:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475072532100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473904680580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - Having a little time and spare cash is a fatal combination at an airport. It wasn't long before I convinced myself I needed a new summer smell, and was soon wandering out of the duty free with a fresh bottle of Marc Jacobs Men. Marc Jacobs launched the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473904680580 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:09:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473904680580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473055661700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - In the traditions of Huxley and Orwell, Maggie Gee's The Ice People (1998) considers the natural conclusions of current social and environmental trends, and places them in the near future. While the result is a little hysterical and unrealistic in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473055661700 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 20:30:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473055661700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472329588356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - As we were in Porto, we were keen to take a trip down the famous Douro River. Rather than simply experience a short urban Porto river tour, we decided nothing less than a rural experience starting high in the Douro valley would do.Douro... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472329588356 Sun, 31 May 2009 15:24:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472329588356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471879159428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - A few years ago, I was quite the Doves fan, and loved their album, The Last Broadcast just a tad too much. It got to the point where my beloved got into the habit of hoying it under the sofa rather than risk my listening to it again... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471879159428 Wed, 27 May 2009 16:39:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471879159428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471540534916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - Our hotel in Porto, the AC Porto, was something of a bargain. It cost us around £60 ($90) a night, while the standard price of a room at this four star hotel was around double. I found the room as one of Lastminute.com's top-secret hotels;... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471540534916 Sun, 24 May 2009 19:08:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471540534916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471211150980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - As I dislike Ryan Air's sharp and deceitful business practices with a vengeance, it's a good thing for me that the airline hasn't yet grabbed a stranglehold of the airports of Northern England. One alternative budget airline that has been slowly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471211150980 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:59:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471211150980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470597996164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - One of my favourite books from a couple of years ago was Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, a story from her childhood living on an African farm. As the book was autobiographical, I wondered how Fuller would follow it up. With... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470597996164 Sat, 16 May 2009 11:59:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470597996164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468591283844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - It's not too often we get a performance worth seeing at our local town hall, but Jimmy Carr is one of the UK's hardest working comedians, and having performed live to over half a million people in the past three years, I'm guessing he has about... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468591283844 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:09:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468591283844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468241714820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - The human mind always creates stereotypes. I work in the weird and wonderful world of local government, and I often think that if we didn't have our regular stream of persistent and time sapping complainants, our staff would simply create them in their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468241714820 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:21:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468241714820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467374476932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - At first, it is difficult to adjust your eyes to peer though the gloom. Although the windows are large, only natural daylight illuminates the room, and the frantic activity alongside you makes the fibres and dust spread everywhere, including into your... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467374476932 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:56:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467374476932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466869587588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - In a city with so many landmarks, it is impossible to highlight just one "must see" place. However, Barcelona's unfinished modern cathedral, La Sagrada Familia, towards the north of the city probably has the edge. The cathedral is local... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466869587588 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:23:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466869587588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466603249284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - Although I've heard about Jack Kerouac and his fabled book On The Road, I didn't know much about the story of the book itself. So, when I saw On the Road: The Original Scroll, I just assumed I was buying the original book. I soon... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466603249284 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:29:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466603249284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465973055108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - Flybe seems almost like a forgotten UK airline, swamped by the likes of easyJet and Ryan Air (spit!). However, as British Airways has sold most of its UK domestic regional airline routes to Flybe over the last couple of years, I guess the airline will... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465973055108 Sat, 4 Apr 2009 21:56:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465973055108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465489923716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - My hiking legs are rather rusty this early in the season, and the most demanding mountains of the Scottish Highlands seemed rather out of reach of my fitness level during my recent visit. Fortunately, our local resident friends let me into a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465489923716 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:42:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465489923716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464783904388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - I remember when life was simple with hair products. In my halcyon teenage years, about the only choice I could afford was a chemist shop own brand - a sloppy luminous green jell, laughably called "country born". In those days, part of the attraction of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464783904388 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:35:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464783904388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463945436804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - One of the most impressive stately homes in the United Kingdom has to be Chatsworth House, set in over 12,000 acres of country estate in the lovely Derbyshire countryside. Chattin' About ChatsworthI'll try not to bore you too long... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463945436804 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:28:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463945436804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463497301636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - On the face of it, Cage the Elephant aren't the loudest band in the world; I even caught something of those pseudo rockers EMF in that bouncy music and indignant lyric delivery. As Cage the Elephant's debut was one of those CD's I bought... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463497301636 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:56:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463497301636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462485491332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - Given the ancient and bitter animosity between Greeks and Turks, one of the more surprising and rewarding museums in Athens is the Islamic Art Museum. The museum is part of the Benaki collection, largely pulled together in the 1800's, and currently... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462485491332 Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:35:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462485491332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461043306116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac wrote And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks in 1945, before either of them found fame. The story dives straight into a bygone age of a jazz soaked, but dour New York in wartime. It tells the broadly factual... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461043306116 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:49:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461043306116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460680105604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - I usually drink red wine under the pretext it is good for my heart. In theory, the tannins and polyphenols I’ve drunk over the years should help ensure my heart is still beating steadily into the next millennium! Unfortunately, I’m rather... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460680105604 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:34:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460680105604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460358192772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - I don't usually have enough interest in the famous to show any real emotion towards them. I've learnt it's not generally worth expending the energy on someone who doesn't even know you exist, and the mere concept of those celeb magazines that seem so... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460358192772 Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:15:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460358192772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459737370244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - As much as I can admire Picasso, my favourite Barcelona museum contains the work of Joan Miro. If I were to win the lottery and splash out on a sole quality piece of Spanish art, then it would have to be a Miro. I'm pleased we spent some time... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459737370244 Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:13:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459737370244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458917580420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - Although it disappoints some visitors, I was keen to reacquaint myself with the Museu Picasso during my recent visit to Barcelona. I remembered enjoying it during my last visit to the city some dozen or so years ago. As the name suggests it is an art... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458917580420 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:45:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458917580420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458174008964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author cr01 - I was looking forward to our two-night stay at the historic Aeginitiko Archontiko Hotel in Aegina Town. There isn't a great choice of hotels in Aegina off-season, and this looked to be the most suitable, and at 75 Euro ($100) a night a reasonable deal... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458174008964 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:13:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458174008964?linkin_id=8003929