Laguna - D-Note & Beth Hirsch

Advantages: Views, range of activities
Disadvantages: Location

...I visited the Laguna Park 2 apartments for a week in November 2005. I hope you find this review helpful! On top of the already great features at the Laguna Park 2 you can also use the facilities at Laguna Park 1 at the bottom of the hill. Location the Laguna Park 2 apartments are on the outskirts of Playa de las Americas near Costa Adeje. It is quite a long walk to the beach, and about 10 minutes to bars and restaurants. If it is the very lively part of Las Americas for example Veronicas strip this would be too far out. It is on "cardiac hill", you have to walk down a slope to the pool from most apartments. It would definitely not be suitable for those with walking difficulties as the hill is just too steep and long. There are a couple of lifts but whether they are working or not is a different matter. There is a taxi rank... Read review

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Advantages: Extremely distinctive vocals, even unforgettable; some quality tracks
Disadvantages: 2nd half of the album tails off a bit in some respects

.... Despite this album being made ten years ago, when compared with similar fare from more contemporary artists, it might well have been released yesterday ? and it still holds up pretty well against anything from the same mould today. ?Screamin' For My Supper? wasn?t Beth Hart?s first album, but it was the first one of hers that came to my attention, since I heard ?LA Song? some years ago and thought she sounded like a harder version of Canadian artist Amanda Marshall, who I?d also ?discovered? at around the same time ? and probably more like another Canadian, Holly McNarland, who I?ll bet hardly anyone reading this has ever heard of, let alone heard (mental note to self ? review her CD ?Stuff? sometime in the future!). In fact, Beth also reminded me of Sheryl Crow in her ?Tuesday Night Music Club? days, not necessarily in terms of the exact... Read review

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Advantages: Drama, gripping, real-life
Disadvantages: None

...What Is Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County? Laguna Beach is a reality TV programme shown by MTV. The cameras follow the lives of several teenagers living in Laguna Beach, Southern California, one of the wealthiest beach communities in the world. The show isn't scripted and you experience everyday things that happen to every other teenager in the world, along with all the drama on the way. There is already a season one but season two carries on four months after the first season ended. The second season kicks off during Christmas break 2005 and follows the teens right until they leave for college in August. Laguna Beach was shot over an eight month period and was shown on MTV before being released onto DVD. In the second season, the majority of the cast from season one are still screened, but this season focuses more on last... Read review

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