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Reviewed Efteling

A fairy-tale amusement park

The Efteling is the oldest amusement park in the Netherlands. It started with the drawings of Anton Pieck, who designed the fairy-tale part of the park. It is beautiful, and not very commercial. Small children loves the talking waste baskets, who are asking for your rubbish. For older childre...Read more

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Reviewed The Famous Five Series - Enid Blyton

The Famous Five are getting old

As a child I read everything I could find, including the complete series of the Famous Five. I was not very fond of the books, because they are all following the same pattern and the books are very predictable. Nevertheless some children liked the series very much, and there was even a tv series...Read more

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Reviewed Hobbit, The - J.R.R. Tolkien

The real magic of Bilbo

The Hobbit is a very good introduction to the fantasy books of Tolkien. The characters of his major work The Lord of the Rings are introduced, but the story is not so complicated. I read this book for the first time when I was 10 years old, and later reread The Hobbit many times, discovering ...Read more

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Reviewed Bovelleander

Floris Jan Bovelander

Hockey is a popular sport in the Netherlands. The national male and female teams are very succesful. The former star Floris Jan Bovelander was a penalty corner specialist, who played many times in the Dutch national hockey team. In 1996 they won the Olympic Games. Spain was defeated in the final...Read more

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Reviewed Cycling

For sport and transport

Transport I live in the Netherlands, and everyone here owns at least one bicycle. For short distances it is an ideal form of transportation. Cycling is sporty, easy and good for the environment. Sport Cycling is also an exciting sport. Worldwide there are a lot of professional racing cy...Read more

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Reviewed Visitors - ABBA

I let the music speak

'The Visitors' is definitely not Abba's best album. I only bought the cd for one number 'I let the music speak'. It is a ballad, with a wonderful change of the beat. I learned the song in my choir class, and bought the cd to hear the original. Other songs you maybe already know are: One of us...Read more

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Reviewed Luxembourg - General

The city of Luxembourg

My brother, his wife and their little baby are living in Luxembourg, so I have been there several times the last few years. Of course I enjoyed the family visits, but I also liked the country. The city of Luxembourg has a lot of parks and historical buildings. Strangely enough the nature is t...Read more

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Reviewed Grease - Music Album

For nostalgic 30-ers

A couple of years ago I bought the original soundtrack from the motion picture Grease. The movie was tremendous popular in the late seventies, all over the world. Everyone who was a teenager at that time, will remember the disco dancing, Grease, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. If you ar...Read more

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Commented on Sera's review

Fetch, Boy! Go Get That Web Site!
Dogpile

In my experience dogpile is not always functioning properly. Sometimes the screen only shows me results for 2 or 3 searchengines, because the other ones were too slow (according to Dogpile). Personally I should prefer a little bit slower service, and more results.

Reviewed About

An information network

About.com is an information network, set up in the USA. If you are looking for links to sites about a specific topic, you probably will find here a nice list. The lists are composited by human specialists, named guides. Recently about.com is expanding their network internationally, so there is n...Read more

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Reviewed Google

My favourite search engine

I have used several search engines, but Google is definitely my favourite: It is very fast You can choose your own language Their database is very very large, so you are getting a lot more results than when you are using Yahoo or Lycos The site is a pleasure to look at: bright colour...Read more

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