On the Road Again!

What bullshit is this? The hotel under new management and so they delete old reviews.  Wouldn't it simply be kinder to update the hotel info and say that new management/ownership took over on a specific date? Not #Tripadvisor.  They allow trolling reviews that are obviously based on personal animosity though.... ;)

When you get an email telling you what the vest restaurant is, you simply have to click on the link. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/TravelersChoice-Restaurants-a_Mode.expanded Once I scanned down the page I wondered if any "best" restaurant actually manages to put any food on the plate without it looking like  Joan Miró i Ferrà  was the inspiration. Little dribbles of colour and dots.  Lots of dots of some sort of fruit reduced from recognisable fruit to a thin liquid that can be squeezed through a cake icing piper..... WTF? More crap from the kind of clowns that go to Glastonbury, not for the music, but "to be seen" amongst the twit class and wannabes. People with their heads so firmly stuck up their arses they can't recognise when someone is taking the piss out of them. It's all too much like The Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy..... What no prices?

I guess we all have our own ideas of what makes a great hotel or restaurant, but sometimes I read reviews (before I go somewhere) and pick out places that I think we'd like to go to. Of course, you have to sift through and discount the reviews written so obviously by the proprietors best friend and at the othe rend of the scale, those written by someone in competition or simply hates them.  These are the usually the over effusive 5* or totally terrible 1* reviews.  Some are simply weird. Today I was thumbing through the Dordogne area, by town, for "dog friendly restaurants". We all have an opinion of that. Personally before I was a dog owner again after over 20+ years of not being a dog owner, I didn't really care. As long as Muttley was quiet and not causing a fuss. This guy obviously thinks it's a dirty European habit. Forget your heritage bud? Has he never been to someone's house where the dog is inside or maybe they own a cat?  As l...

After reading a few of the madder reviews of places I have been, and having just come back from a trip to France I decided to inject a little less plain text into a few of mine and see what happens. Maybe share YOUR favourite reviews! “I am not a number.....” Reviewed 28 August 2012 NEW As soon as we turned off the road into the parking looking for a coffee store, we found Starbuck's, we realised we had entered a parallel world where designer shops were the norm and normal people were excluded like the snot nosed kid looking at the giant Easter Egg that he'll never afford... The Village looks like the set from the remake of The Prisoner; fully expecting No 6 to walk around the corner......As we sat outside drinking our latte with Armani opposite and two different Burberry shops around us, having passed Ralph's polo shirt emporium, I fully expected to see some millionaire footballers or film stars. Instead the car park was full of pre-2005 Peugeots and...

When I go away, whether for a night in the UK or longer abroad I tend to look for an area and then check out the reviews on TA and also on booking.com. You have to laugh at some of them!  Some are downright offensive and you have to take a ruler and strike off the most glowing and the most ridiculous off before you make a decision. In May when we went across for the MotoGP I looked at the Campanile in Alencon. It was full, but we did have dinner there one night. So, TA, has remembered I had previously browsed. I had a look through the reviews and came across this one.  Okay, it's not as mindless as the free wifi is too slow or that you can't get baseball on the TV.... But has this women never been to France before? Restaurants are like homes, dogs are accepted. ""Dog in Restaurant!" 3 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 July 2012 The room was a typical Campanile but in need of a refurb - the catch was broken on the window so we could not leave it o...

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