JanaStein Posted October 24, 2011 Share #201 Posted October 24, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) So sorry to hear about your Napoli adventure, but at least you and your gear are OK. If we can be of any assistance, please drop us a message. Jana Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 24, 2011 Posted October 24, 2011 Hi JanaStein, Take a look here Palermo One Challenge: the arrangements and the rules. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
octo Posted October 25, 2011 Share #202 Posted October 25, 2011 John, Thank whatever you got out ok and with your gear, too. One day, you'll tell us about that mysterious foot injury, won't you? Hope you got back home safely. best regards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted October 26, 2011 Share #203 Posted October 26, 2011 John, I was so sorry to read about your experience in Italy, but so pleased to learn that you seem have overcome your problems. At least you and your gear survived unscathed. Have a safe flight home. ____________ Cheers, Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share #204 Posted October 31, 2011 The deadline for entries for the One Challenge is rapidly approaching for those who took part and (apart from the entries from one participant who has repeatedly tried to send them but without successfully reaching me so far:() there is only person whose entries I haven't yet received. Please be quick! Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted November 1, 2011 Author Share #205 Posted November 1, 2011 One thing I'd like to add is a huge thank you to Elaine and Ivor at Red Dot Cameras for very generously donating 200 Euro towards the dinner in Palermo. It was a real shame that the logistics of getting to Palermo and back in time to open Red Dot made it impossible for them to attend and all the more kudos for making this donation. I'd also like to mention the kindness of the restaurant's management in supplying the dessert on the house. They made it their 'little surprise' but I wasn't sure if everyone was aware of their kind gesture. When we were leaving the restaurant Fillipo, the younger gent from the restaurant who so capably produced the menu, ensured that the service was excellent and generally looked after us, asked that if we were happy with the dinner to very kindly express it on TripAdvisor.com. The restaurant is Al Cancelletto Verde (The Little Green Gate). Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted November 1, 2011 Share #206 Posted November 1, 2011 When we were leaving the restaurant Fillipo, the younger gent from the restaurant who so capably produced the menu, ensured that the service was excellent and generally looked after us, asked that if we were happy with the dinner to very kindly express it on TripAdvisor.com. Pete, there was a programme about trip advisor on the beeb tonight. I'm assuming that most of the people who attended the meal are more well balanced than some of the reviewers who appeared on that particular programme <grin>. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted November 1, 2011 Author Share #207 Posted November 1, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Pete, there was a programme about trip advisor on the beeb tonight. I'm assuming that most of the people who attended the meal are more well balanced than some of the reviewers who appeared on that particular programme <grin>. Steve, I didn't see the programme but I'd hesitate to necessarily include myself in a group that determined itself to be well balanced. I'll hunt it down on iPlayer. I tend to take TripAdvisor reviews with several handfuls of salt; in my experience they tend to describe the best-ever or worst-ever and are beseiged by reviewers who pick at and obssess about the most unimportant things. "The switch on one of the bedside lights was so stiff I had to use two fingers to turn it on and off! I left immediately and will never return to this awful place!" or "The curtains didn't match the bedspread - how am I supposed to stay in a room like that?? I immediately demanded another room but the management refused so I left without paying and spent the rest of the night sleeping in the car! That showed them!" etc. But it must mean something to some hotels and restaurants. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted November 1, 2011 Share #208 Posted November 1, 2011 I saw the programme. There are some sick people about, who really don't care how their poor reports can affect a business and the health of the people running it. The three people at the end who were invited back to a restaurant and really didn't care about what they had done to the business with their ridiculous complaints really were beyond the pale. And there is nothing that proprietors can do about it - comments cannot be removed even if they are blatantly misleading and wrong There are people about who consider themselves to be hotel/restaurant reviewers yet have no mandate to slag off people at all. The gay couple saw themselves as masters of taste and doing the general public a service, by claiming that they couldn't sleep due to the light from a very small window. They appeared to deliberately go to stay at places with the intention of picking fault and writing a poor review on the way home. Whatever happened to "If you enjoyed your stay, tell your friends, if of didn't, tell us and we will do something about it "? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted November 1, 2011 Share #209 Posted November 1, 2011 Knowing what TA can be like - decided not to bother watching. However, we always take a look at TA before booking - how else does one find the Porte Felice? But a pinch of salt is always a necessity. Far too many "reviewers" take umbrage at the slightest fault/error/whatever made by the hotel and race off into print, complaining at irrelevances, without giving a balanced view. That said, it is useful to read through and assess an overall trend from the reports. We've found that two more telling guidelines are the bar-chart giving the overall comment totals together with the guests' photos (not many decent photographers there tho'). Overall we have not been let down, ....................... yet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted November 1, 2011 Share #210 Posted November 1, 2011 Neither have we but being able to read the runes is a useful skill, as is understanding where the reviewer comes from. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted November 1, 2011 Share #211 Posted November 1, 2011 Quite, but in that TA is just like anything else that attracts critics. A few years ago some friends of mine had a hotel in the West Country. They had a cancellation at 7pm that evening and charged the first night's stay (of 3 nights) as per their notified terms and conditions. The guest, who had never set foot in the place, wrote a detailed piece on TA denigrating everything from the speed of check in to the state of the public areas, the beds and the hairs he found in the shower - all complete fiction. Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted November 1, 2011 Share #212 Posted November 1, 2011 Appalling, Bill. I do believe there is a right of reply by the hotel - I've seen several postings. In your friend's case I would have been sorely tempted to set the record straight. Anyway I do feel this is all getting somewhat OT is it not?? Best continued in a place of liquid refreshment - no? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted November 1, 2011 Share #213 Posted November 1, 2011 Yes Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share #214 Posted November 7, 2011 Thank you very much to all and their 'support crews' who took part in the Palermo One Challenge and by doing so supported the Association of International Cancer Research through your 10 Euro entry fee. Today I received the following email from AICR: "Dear Pete, On behalf of all of us at the Association for International Cancer Research, I would like to thank you for your very kind donation of €180 from the Leica One Challenge Competition. Please pass on our thanks to all of the forum members that took part. AICR exists to fund scientific research of the highest calibre into the causes, detection and prevention of cancer. It is thanks to the support we have received from people like you that we are currently funding 209 research projects in 21 countries around the world. Your donation will also help us to inform more people about the nature and symptoms of this disease. You will appreciate therefore why we so value your support. Yours sincerely, Vickie Johnstone for AICR" I have all the entries and I plan to post them in separate Day Challenge and Night Challenge voting threads this week. I will insert links in this thread and other sub-forums to entice as many members to vote as possible. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share #215 Posted November 9, 2011 Dear All, I have posted the entries for the 2011 Leica One Challenge in Palermo. Please view the entries and vote in the threads at the links below. Both threads are in a new subforum of the One Challenge forum titled "Palermo" Best regards, Pete. The Daytime Challenge The Nighttime Challenge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Bachmann Posted December 15, 2011 Share #216 Posted December 15, 2011 Now that the challenge is over, I can share my favourites from our time spent in Palermo... http://www.flickriver.com/photos/danbachmann/tags/palermo/ If anyone else has more to share from this trip, I'd enjoy looking at them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
topfloor Posted December 16, 2011 Share #217 Posted December 16, 2011 Good idea, Dan. So here are some of my Palermo pictures . . . . . . thx for the good time in the not so tidy city of Palermo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauribix Posted December 16, 2011 Share #218 Posted December 16, 2011 Carsten that "what a couple" shot is AWESOME! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauribix Posted December 16, 2011 Share #219 Posted December 16, 2011 Well, so this is my set then. Hope you enjoy: While the world falls apart, Palermo is still there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzo Posted December 16, 2011 Share #220 Posted December 16, 2011 Maurizio, I don't know if it's just me but I'm clicking and getting nothing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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