An Age of Magic

Staying at a holiday resort…? read the small print - if it’s there.

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I recently read a story about a british family who went on holiday to Greece. They booked two weeks at an expensive resort with wonderful childrens playground facilities - all shown in the glossy brochures - and arrived expecting to have the time of their lives.

They then got a shock. The childrens facilities were reserved only for the use of the children of the German guests; in fact, much of the resort had areas only for the use of German guests. Now, of you have paid several thousand to stay at a resort you expect to be able to use the entire establishment. I know most people realise that when Germans are around you have to race to bag a pool sunlounger at sunrise - at dawn you see all their towels covering the outdoor furniture covers on the poolside chairs but gradually resort owners are starting to ban this kind of thing.

But being told you cannot use the childrens playground because you are not German…? It is one thing reading the small print, but what if there was no small print to read?

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Televisions are looking less like televisions these days

I don’t know about you but I sort of preferred it when televisions looked like televisions. Kind of like the way I prefer cars which look like cars - like they used to. No gadgety things to go wrong, no expensive replacing of small computerised parts. I like technology to keep things nice and simple.

We were looking at TV’s yesterday and walking through an electrical dept these days is certainly like a walk through a science and technology exhibition!  

I saw the largest version of the LCD HDTV that there is on the market and wondered how on earth people manage to view them at home…what size living room would they have!! the tv’s all look like computer screens - and where’s all the knobs and tuners gone…?

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