Epinions Recent Reviews for gaviidae

I see London, I see France---

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:12:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - "A Good Year" begins a few "vintages" ago with the boy Max (Freddie Highmore) enjoying his life with Uncle Henry (Alfred Finney), and learning the fine points of producing fine wines as well as other important aspects of life. Max defeats Henry at a game...

Light classical music in an Italian Village in Tuscany

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:01:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - Andre Rieu was born in the Netherlands in 1949 to a musical family. His father was a conductor, and Andre became a violinist and conductor. In 1987 he formed the Johann Strauss Orchestra and quickly achieved popularity in Europe and later in the US. He...

Two romantic comedies for the price of one---

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:19:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - Los Angeles film-trailer-maker and rich workaholic Amanda (Cameron Diaz) breaks up in a rage with her boyfriend, and decides she needs a break from it all to repair her perspective. British journalist Iris (Kate Winslet) is devastated by unrequited...

Andrea Bocelli, Under the Desert Sky

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:05:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - When we visited L
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Las Vegas earlier this year for my son's wedding, many of the staff there were still talking about the concert by Andrea Bocelli on a floating stage and amphitheater for a small audience near...

An Italian village in the desert!

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:14:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - I first heard of Montelago Village Resort when my son announced that his wedding---LONG in the planning stage---was going to be at the Lake Las Vegas Resort complex near Henderson, Nevada, at the Chapel Fiorenza. Lake Las Vegas is a...

A visual and audio FEAST!

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:42:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - The group called Celtic Woman, originally four, now five vocalists and a violinist have quickly achieved wild popularity through only three releases since 2005. They have been featured on PBS many times since 2005, have toured major US cities and around...

International Crash

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:16:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - The wildly popular movie "Crash" tells a story of several different ethnic groups in Los Angeles. The story unfolds in nonlinear fragments of seemingly unrelated events. It is not until near the end of the movie that we learn of the connections between...

You, too, can daisy chain!

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:05:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - Among many good things that have happened to computers in the past ten years one of the best is the development of the Universal Serial Bus, or USB. It has largely displaced the former serial, parallel and PS2 ports that originally provided the means to...

An effective collaboration of Palestinian and Israeli artists

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:34:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - "The Syrian Bride" is Mona (Clara Khoury), daughter of a Syrian family living in a small Druze village in the Golan Heights, near the border between Syria and Israel. She and her family live on the Israeli side of the border, and her family has arranged...

Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 12 Month Subscription (3 PC's): PC health care for less than $1 a day!

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:49:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - For the past six weeks I have been using a free three-month trial of Windows Live OneCare. The free trial is readily available by a free download from the Microsoft website. After the expiration of the free trial period, or at any time before, I can...

An Inconvenient Truth: Inconvenient comments from some actual scientists

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:59:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - After the Academy Awards I felt compelled to watch the DVD of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," an award winner for Best Documentary. The movie offers Al Gore at his professorial best, summing up the results of his decades of obsession with the threat...

Thanks for the memory!

Sat, 3 Mar 2007 12:57:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - I've long intended to get an external memory device to back up my files and to offload stuff from my internal hard drive that I don't use very often---sort of an archive. There are many memory choices out there now, the most appealing to me being the...

VisiKey Wired Large Print Internet (EVIK110) Keyboard: Hunt 'n pecker? Low light or low vision? Visikey was designed for YOU!

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:03:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - I'm a pretty good hunt and peck typist, but in the past year I began to make a LOT of mistakes. It wasn't hard to realize that I was having trouble seeing the markings on my standard keyboard, and hitting a lot of wrong keys. I shopped around for a...

A perspective of American pop culture since the sixties---

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:47:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - For my wife and me the stage musical "Dreamgirls" was an early Broadway theater experience that totally thrilled us in 1983. Twenty-four years later we have eagerly awaited the release of the highly touted movie version released nationwide on...

I was there----

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:25:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - In 1983 my wife and I celebrated a wedding anniversary with a weekend trip to New York City, primarily to catch a couple of Broadway shows. On that weekend we saw "Cats" on one night, and "Dreamgirls" the next night, two of the hottest shows of that year...

Brekke Tours and Travel: Traveling to Norway? Call Brekke!

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:32:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - After deciding that 2006 was going to be the year for our long-intended trip to Norway we looked into several tour operators who offer both independent travel and tours to Norway. Many of our friends recommended Brekke, a small travel agency that...

Holmenkollen: Last Stops: Flam and Holmenkollen

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:37:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - We departed Voss for the trip by train to Myrdal and Flam. The Bergen to Oslo railway runs directly behind the Fleischer Hotel where we had stayed for two nights. It was just a few steps to the train station next door where we gathered to board the quiet...

Hordaland: The Beautiful City of Bergen

Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:01:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - We were on our way at 8:00 AM for a day trip from Voss to Bergen, the largest city in the county of Hordaland. We learned from Marit, our tour director, that there are 40 tunnels between Voss and Bergen, and a total of 200 between Bergen and Oslo by...

Hordaland: Hordaland: Briksdal Glacier, Stalheim and Voss

Wed, 6 Dec 2006 02:50:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - After another lavish breakfast buffet we left the Alexandra Hotel in Loen bound for the town of Voss, by way of the Briksdal Glacier and Stalheim. On the narrow road to Briksdal Glacier we encountered a woman and a young boy with a herd of goats, and...

Geiranger, Norway: Fjordane: Geiranger and Loen

Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:07:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - After a delightful afternoon and evening in the town if Molde we left the next morning at 8:00 AM. A short drive took us to our second ferry ride across the Langs Fjord branch of the Romsdal Fjord. We continued on to the town of Andalnes, and then...

Molde: Romsdal: Bud and Molde

Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:48:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - Today we departed Trondheim for a drive to the Atlantic coast, the village of Bud, and the town of Molde. Our route took us along the south side of the Trondheim Fjord, one of the long fingers of the ocean that reach inland thru the mountains for as far...

Stiklestad, Norway: Nord Trondelag: Stiklestad

Sun, 3 Dec 2006 01:43:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - A new day of adventure began with a drive through beautiful mountain scenery from Sor Trondelag into Nord Trondelag. Marit, our tour director, remarked that our group of mostly Norwegian descendants had a common Norwegian trait: that only now, after...

Trondelag: Sor Trondelag: Trondheim

Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:44:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - At Trondheim, in late afternoon of the sixth day of our Norway tour, we checked in at the Radisson SAS Royal Garden Hotel, on the bank of the Nidleva, the River Nid. The hotel is spectacular! It consists of three rectangular brick structures joined by...

Sor Trondelag, Norway: Sor Trondelag: Lillehammer and Roros

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:07:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - For a morning visit to the 1994 Olympic site in Lillehammer we drove a short distance up a steep winding road to an area at the base of the two ski jumps used in the Olympics. We stood in the area where the opening and closing ceremonies took place,...

Hedmark: Hamar and Elverum

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:58:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gaviidae - After a sumptuous breakfast at the Grand Hotel in Oslo we gathered for the drive to Hamar, about 60 miles north in the province of Hedmark. During the drive Marit, our Brekke Tour guide, gave us lots of information about Norway: ---In Norway farms are...