Miss Meteores - Olivia Ruiz

Advantages: Appealing character, lovely illustrations
Disadvantages: Expensive, possible typo?

...Olivia is a book that was given to one of our daughters by her nursery at the end of last term. It quickly established itself as a favourite over the summer holidays. Olivia is a small pig with large ears. She is lively, energetic, precocious, opinionated and feisty. She specialises in tiring people out ? even herself! In many ways, she reminds me of our two girls?. This book doesn?t really have a storyline as such; it?s more of a ?Day in the life of?? Olivia likes to try on ALL her clothes when deciding what to wear in the morning. She likes to build very impressive sandcastles but she doesn?t like to nap. She?s partial to Degas and his paintings of ballerinas, but she?s pretty disparaging about Modern Art. She gets sent to the stairs for a ?think? when she?s naughty and demands LOTS of bedtime... Read review

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Advantages: Location, rooms & staff
Disadvantages: none

...The first grumpy free break for some years, he was rock bothering in Italy (environmental stuff) so where could we go? After debating and a bottle of wine we decided to try Prague and checked on the Best Western site to see what delights and bargains they had to offer. For those of you that read my reviews you will notice that we tend to use B.W a lot and there is good reason for doing so. Firstly they are all different, some quirky, some modern, big and small and secondly I can book them all through central reservations, I can easily change hotels, nights and add rooms etc, nothing seems too much trouble. Where did I choose? The Best Western Meteor Plaza and what a good choice it turned out to be. At the time of booking they had a two for three night offer bringing the price for 3 nights B&B in total £150.00, bargain... Read review

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Advantages: Great programme, very informative
Disadvantages: None

...The Meteor, The Ultimare Profile, is a very well produced programme. It tells the full story of how the Gloster Meteor came about and how it was created. The Gloster Meteor was proposed in the summer of 1940 and it was the very first jet aircraft that was flown by the Allied air forces during World War 2. Surprising though this might seem, this video was the first video to be made about this extremely important military aircraft. It follows the story of the Gloster Meteor from the very first days on the drawing board (literally, in this instance) through testing and through to the first test flights and the years of service with the RAF as a front line fighter plane. The creation of this video led to an important discovery, some extensive colour footage of Sir Frank Writtle, Britain's very own pioneer of jet planes... Read review

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