the best thing about this half-hour travel show from Fine Living channel is the title.
I was really hoping it would be something like Michael Palin's BBC series Pole to Pole, the best travel show ever, in which he picked a longitude and traveled from the North Pole to the South Pole entirely on the Earth's surface. (He had to cheat somewhere around the Sudan and jigger over to a slightly different latitude to go around a war, and again at the end by flying, because it was either that or wait six months at Capetown for the next boat to Antarctica.) I was hoping this show would pick a latitude each season and find interesting travel locations around that latitude. Or something.
Alas, the show has nothing to do with latitudes. It's just what the Germans would call a "stinknormale" travel show. If you like travel shows, this won't offend you. If you don't like travel shows, this will put you to sleep. I've tried watching two random episodes and couldn't get through an entire one, even though the total running time is 20 minutes. I don't like travel shows.
By the way: 20 minutes for what is presumably a 30 minute timeslot? That's crass. That's really crass.
Let's hope the next TV show is more interesting. This one gave me nuthin'.
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