![]() They appeared on Radio 4’s Excess Baggage, among other shows, and in two episodes of the series Mediterranean Tales (Lion Television/BBCFour), did their best to explain the life and history of Naples and Athens.Īt the moment, they are working hard at converting and expanding some of their guides into in depth travel apps: Barcelona Art & Culture and Venice Art & Culture are currently both out in the Apple App Store and on Google Play the Ultimate Italian Menu Decoder and Bologna Art & Culture will follow shortly. They even wandered further afield to write travel guides to Mars and Hell, and condensed some of the curiosities they’ve learned along the way in a little ebook called Titmice, Turks and Marinated Mummies.Ĭurrently based in Southwest France, they have contributed to the Independent, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Times Travel Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian, the Telegraph, National Geographic Traveler’s website and the travel magazine Wanderlust. Over the next 30 plus years, 'the Dynamic Duo of Travel Writing' as they've been called have written over 40 guides to Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Spain for both Cadogan and Footprint. These were a little revolution at the time: guides ‘for the independent traveller’ as the old slogan put it, with a rich and thorough treatment of history and culture, a little irreverence and a sense of fun. Along with Turkey, these books became the genesis of the first Cadogan Guides in 1985. If you want, you can also sign up for my diabolical newsletter on Substack and subscribe to my YouTube channel.Dana Facaros wrote her first guide book the Greek Islands at age 20 in 1977, and husband Michael Pauls joined her a few years later in penning guides to Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook and support my work on Patreon. And it just looks good sitting there next to my ASUS Ultra-Wide monitor. ![]() It ran flawlessly for every application and remained cool and quiet for the duration. I used this unit for two months, playing games, rendering videos and doing day-to-day computing in order to get a full sense of how the machine performs over time. If you want a PC that’s stylish but not flashy, that has a small footprint but leaves a big impression, you can’t beat the Falcon Northwest Tiki.Ĭonfigure yours at Falcon Northwest’s homepage, where you can choose from CPU and GPU options, custom exterior UV prints and much more.Ī loaner unit was provided for the purposes of this review. I have to agree with my colleague Jason Evangelho’s review of the Tiki from way back in 2013: This is the perfect PC. If you’re gaming on a Falcon Northwest machine, you have the disposable income to pay for the best of the best without compromising. A quality boutique, luxury gaming PC is expensive, but you pay for what you get. My test unit, fit with the newer Intel i9-12900 and air-cooling will set you back around $5,300. You also pay a premium, with Tikis starting in the $3,000 - $4,000 range but easily topping off thousands higher depending on which options you select. Talon 4 The Heart of Racing 1 Source: FalconNW (Twitter) What Happens When Lord Gaben Orders Extra PCs From Falcon Northwest Raising money to help kids has never been so awesome. To see what the hype is about, we got to unbox a Falcon Northwest Talon PC based off. So yes, you trade upgradability for a smaller form factor. Falcon Northwestthe company that’s been credited with creating the first gaming PC back in the 1990s. ![]() 2TB of super-fast M.2 SSD storage is great, but it’s easy to fill that up with games and other files. There’s room inside to add two more SSD drives so you can pack in a lot more storage. There are only two memory slots, so if I wanted to upgrade RAM I’d need to replace the two 16GB units I have with two 32GB units, which is obviously costlier (though Falcon Northwest is now offering 32GB x2 configurations so you can start with 64GB). Such are the limitations of the form factor. ![]() While it’s nice to have such a compact gaming PC sitting on my desk not taking up too much space, it does mean that upgrades-while not impossible-are going to be far more limited than in an ATX tower with ample room to work. There always are-especially when you’re making a size tradeoff. ![]()
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