Darren Critchleys

A Week or Two in The Rockies

   We've been looking at holiday locations for a few weeks now and if you're married you know how this generally goes - and for those of you who aren't married lets just say it's a good reason not to get married :-)
One of the things that makes it easy to sell a holiday to your partner (or friends) is the production of some inspiring material about the place you'd like to visit.
Ordinarily this comes in the form of a brochure, they show you all the really good stuff - that costs a fortune, and none of the everyday items that actually make it worth while visiting the place (anyone can go to disney, it takes a little more character to go a little way down the road less traveled).
So the thing we really liked about this book is that it's written by a guy who's spent his life visiting the Rockies, he's actually done pretty much everything that's in the book and he's put a wealth of information in there that really takes the learning curve out of the trip.
One thing that this book does have in common with the brochures is the picture content - this book has some truly awesome pictures of the places that Darren's talking about.
So whether it's for reference or to help you choose a holiday location this book gets a thumbs up from us.

Next Up - Sussim Elzzup.

World Sports: 30 Word Scramble Puzzles

We spoke to Sussim this week and took a look at her new book 30 Word Scramble Puzzles - we were quite suprised.
We had expected something that was kind of easy and not very taxing but instead we found something that did actually require us to think (oh the horror!).

Once we'd been at it for a while the normal competitive spirits came out.
So all in all we liked it, this is the kind of thing that you could weel out at your next dinner party as the after dinner 'shut up the smart arse' piece.