This next review is on my time on The Blue Mountains National Park, located in Sydney Australia. A few friends and I had decided to hire a van and take a tour of the national park, as we had been recommended it by several people we had met along the way. I am usually a fan of national parks; it gives you a chance to take in the scenic view, it gives you a chance to relax and unwind if you have had a busy week, and you even get to see some wildlife. It?s a great experience, which allows you to camp overnight, whilst also have a magnificent driving experience.
History & Park Info:
The park covers 267,954 hectares, which included several mountains and rivers along the trek. The highest point of the park is Mount Werong (1,215 m), and there are some breathtaking views from the top. The area became a national park in 1932, and ever since ...
Advantages: Some accomplished bits. Disadvantages: Screaming and samey drum beats.
In Flames - Come Clarity
Yet another of my 14 year old (next months) son's offerings which he insists 'You must listen to this dad'. This is by no means my longest review as I am not going to 'fill' when I have not much to say.
Wikipedia tell me that these are a Swedish melodic death metal band.....not a good start, however, being am open minded dad I thought I should give them a a go. Though I do fail to see how Death Metal can be melodic, ho, hum.
This album was released in 2006 and looking at the art work on the cover I kinda had a good idea what it might sound like. Best album in the Swedish Grammy awards, well there you go.
1. Take This Life
2. Leeches
3. Reflect the Storm
4. Dead End
5. Scream
6. Come Clarity
7. Vacuum
8. Pacing Death's Trail
9. Crawl Through Knives
10. Versus Terminus
11. Our ...
Advantages: Pace and plot Disadvantages: Well-crafted rather than literary genius
Watching his father die, Paul Copeland remembers spying on him in the woods. Only once. Many Saturdays his father would ''go fishing'' and not take his son with him. Paul probably always knew that it was to the woods his father went, because he sometimes went there too. On this one occasion he did follow, and spied. He watched his father digging in the earth, and saw the tears, and the anger.
Now Paul is all grown up: a prosecutor by profession, he is raising a daughter alone following the death of his wife. He is helped by family?his wife's sister and her husband. He also gets the kind of 'slack' that lone fathers do get ? unlike lone mothers, who labour under a presumption that their being alone is somehow their fault, or maybe just that they are expected to be better at it.
A body is found. And Paul finds himself helping ...
