Category: Reviews of products, places or services

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Lost – the luggage series

Original playout date: 2 February 2008
Duration: 17:20

All my Turkish trip luggage appears to have been subverted to feed and clothe the Dharma project. Here I try and get some sense out of the system that the airlines have put in place to reunite people with their possessions. This was taken after 6 days, by today it’s been 9 days, still no news, and I still have to wait for compensation. Next week I will have to repurchase my entire luggage for the next Turkey long trip, and I still don’t qualify for compensation if the luggage is found before the end of the 30 days, as this person says. I’m not blaming him personally, but the system absolutely sticks. And SAS is much less respectful of its clients than KLM was in my case 15 months ago.

There are quite a few juicy one-liners and bits of sarcasm in this call.
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Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
4.2 out of 5 stars(42531196)

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The Divorce
4.3 out of 5 stars(43520323)

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Visiting Old Friends in Fuerstenwalde

Original playout date: 30 January 2008
Duration: 5:24

My wife had been asking for some time to be taken to see her old friend also called Lena from Belarus and I gave in in the end. In time for her to meet before the cancer which was eating her finally took her some months later, tragically.
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Project Hail Mary
4.7 out of 5 stars(475249429)

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Mad Mabel: A Novel
4.6 out of 5 stars(46515970)

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Huliganov’s Turkish Experience #3 – Eat me!

Original playout date: 28 January 2008
Duration: 14:19

This evening we are in Taksim, in Beyoğlu, where the most thriving part of the city’s nightlife is, with shops open until late, and restaurants until even later. We went to one restaurant famous for the quality of its mezedes or hors d’oeuvres and were treated to some impromptu fasıl music. The title “Ye Beni” means “Eat me”, though whether it has the full range of meanings associated with that phrase in vernacular English I couldn’t begin to ask. Maybe someone here will tell me?
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The Divorce
4.3 out of 5 stars(43520323)

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Project Hail Mary
4.7 out of 5 stars(475249429)

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Aquarium in Krakow Radisson

Original playout date: 27 January 2008
Duration: 2:18

Here is a quick shorty showing the lovely tank at the Krakow Radisson, and revealing the biological timebomb already inherent in the set up.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Full-Cast Edition)
4.9 out of 5 stars(495109876)

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Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
4.2 out of 5 stars(42531196)

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Huliganov’s 2nd North American Experience #7 – Lake Placid and the Fireside Steak House

This Fireside Steak House (2653 Main Street) in Lake Placid was one of the best meals, as well as best value, I’ve ever had. It was well worth the detour.

geo:lat = 44.28335388601856
geo:lon=-73.98371458053589
… are the precise co-ordinates if you fancy trying it for yourself.”

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The Primal Hunter 14: A LitRPG Adventure
4.8 out of 5 stars(4856339)

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Project Hail Mary
4.7 out of 5 stars(475249429)

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