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  • 11-03-2019 6:58pm
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    BobbyBobberson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I did search but could not find a previous thread. Has anyone got any TV recommendations for those who like to travel/take holidays? I was watching Race Across the World last night and I was looking for more travel tv. Have watched some of Anthony Bourdain's stuff and also Departures on Netflix.


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    Nigel Fairservice
    Registered Users, Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,175 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    I really enjoyed Travel Man, Richard Ayoade's show. He goes on holidays with other comedians. It's on 4OD. I always liked the show's tagline, 'We're here but should we have come?'. :pac:


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    fdevine
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    +1 for Travel Man above

    Getaways on RTE, RTE Player & BBC
    Rick Steins Weekends (& others) on Good Food - food orientated but not exclusively so

    Do you have access to Travel Channel? Channel 198 on Sky but also available FTA on satellite AFAIK

    Or see if there's anything here.....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_travel_television_series


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    Sundew
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    +1 for Rick Steins long weekends! His Venice to Istanbul
    show is great too and it’s often repeated. Think it might be the food channel.
    Slightly on the geeky side, but I have got some great holiday ideas from Michael Portillo’s “ Great Railway Journeys”

    I can also recommend Gino’s Adriatic Escape travel with a bit of cooking thrown in for good measure which was on BBC 2 recently.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmrbFJh7HO0


    I pine for the old globetrotter shows!


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    Sundew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    I should have added on previous post that if interested in Japan NHK world has some really good programmers about travel in Japan. Watch out for J Trip Plan....I have loads of them recorded on my recorder box....not sure if it is currently on.
    https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/program/video/jtripplan/

    Another favourite of mine again another gastronomic road trip is
    “ Ottolenghis Mediterranean Island Feast”
    Watched the series about 6/7 times ...never tire of the fab scenery!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9mHcZASsE


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    cdeb
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    Can't beat the likes of Michael Palin (Around the World in 80 Days is an absolute classic), Simon Reeve or Levison Wood. Palin's early series in particular are paeans to pure travel; Reeve and Wood weave in more journalism

    Some surprising people have fronted decent travel shows - Chris Tarrant (Extreme Railways), Griff Rhys Jones (Slow Train Through Africa), Joanna Lumley (several series actually), Jonathan Dimbleby (Russia), Michael Portillo (as mentioned above)

    Bruce Parry (Tribe) takes it to extremes, but no less fascinating for that.

    And at their best, the Top Gear big adventures are very enjoyable rambles.

    All the above do require you to differentiate between Travel TV and Holiday TV. Nothing wrong with the latter of course, though Ayoade never really did it for me, but they are two different things


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    Sundew
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    The Mekong River with Sue Perkins is currently being repeated on BBC4. Saw the tail end of it last night!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02c4xxm/p02c4xks


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    Tigerandahalf
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    The bbc iplayer is great as many series are up there for a good while.

    Rick Stein's Long Weekends are on it at the moment. A nice blend between travel, food and culture.

    Ade Adepitan has an interesting series on Africa at the moment. This guy emigrated to London with his parents at the age of 3 after he got polio. One of his legs is disabled as a result and in the series he has to push his way around in his wheelchair on horrible surfaces or hobble on crutches.

    He goes through various countries and you get a feel for the madness that is that continent. He interviewed one young upcoming opposition leader and a couple of weeks later one of his security guards was killed after a hit.

    He also chats to a guy who is knee deep in a salt lake trying to extract salt for a penny a kilo. A great insight into why young men are desperate to get into Europe for a better life.

    I have only seen a couple of episodes of both above but well worth watching

    Rick Stein's Mexico is also excellent.

    Simon Reeves has some good travel programmes on the iplayer too touching more on the culture and socio-economic issues of the places he visits.

    Some of the above may also be on youtube, prime or netflix.

    A couple of more that sometimes are on -
    The Hairy Bikers' Mediterranean Adventure (wonderful scenery as they drive the bikes)

    The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - they bike around the Baltics, Sweden, Finland and Russia.


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    BobbyBobberson
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    Thanks so much for all the replies, some real gems in here!


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    Yamanoto
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    Michael Palin's 'Around the World in 80 Days' remains the high watermark for me.

    His 'Pole to Pole' series is on YT in its entirety.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8kJ9DXKhZ4


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    Mrcaramelchoc
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    Any of Billy Connolly s travel shows are very good.he doesn't take himself to seriously and there's a bit of his stand up material thrown in as well.
    The world tour series.particularly world tour of Australia.brilliant stuff.


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    Sundew
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    Check out “Race across the World” on BBC if you haven't already seen it.
    I’m current catching up with it on my recorder box. It’s really good.

    5 pairs have to travel from London to Singapore without using a flight are are not allowed to use their own smart technology to aid them, only a good old fashioned map and travel book.
    They are given points along the journey where they have to check in and last couple to check in at each point gets eliminated!
    It’s old fashioned travel and back packing at its best!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071h5lx


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    BobbyBobberson
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    Sundew wrote: »
    Check out “Race across the World” on BBC if you haven't already seen it.
    I’m current catching up with it on my recorder box. It’s really good.

    5 pairs have to travel from London to Singapore without using a flight are are not allowed to use their own smart technology to aid them, only a good old fashioned map and travel book.
    They are given points along the journey where they have to check in and last couple to check in at each point gets eliminated!
    It’s old fashioned travel and back packing at its best!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071h5lx

    It is so good! It is what got me to start this thread here. There is also a thread in the tv forum https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057963424

    Some spoilers in there!


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    Sundew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    BobbyBobberson wrote: »
    It is so good! It is what got me to start this thread here. There is also a thread in the tv forum https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057963424

    Some spoilers in there!

    Ooh I better not check the thread so until I watch episode 4 as I have been recording the repeats I think.


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    monty_python
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    Sundew wrote: »
    Check out “Race across the World” on BBC if you haven't already seen it.
    I’m current catching up with it on my recorder box. It’s really good.

    5 pairs have to travel from London to Singapore without using a flight are are not allowed to use their own smart technology to aid them, only a good old fashioned map and travel book.
    They are given points along the journey where they have to check in and last couple to check in at each point gets eliminated!
    It’s old fashioned travel and back packing at its best!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071h5lx

    Looks very interesting. Can it be watched online anywhere??


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    Sundew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    monty_python wrote: »
    Looks very interesting. Can it be watched online anywhere??

    Can’t seem to find any links to first two episodes as I can’t view it on BBC player.

    Episode 3 is repeated tonight on BBC2 at 11.15pm and episode 4 is on Sunday night at 9pm. The first 2 involve travelling from London to Baku.


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    dennyk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭dennyk


    If you're up for something a little different, An Idiot Abroad is a hilarious travel show featuring Karl Pilkington being Karl Pilkington.


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