Travel Channel - Break Away
Written: Oct 28 '99 (Updated Jan 29 '00)
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Pros: Refreshing opposite from the rest of ordinary evening TV
Cons: Somewhat too snappy - but always attractively filmed
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Tired of sapping?
Now, the Travel Channel is one of the channels where you get stuck every second time sapping over it. Either you get caught by one of the funny aussie vocabs or some great views of some landscape you always thought "that must be fake".
Lots of the professional moderating travelers are refreshing personal and don't even hesitate to try strange things at strange places even if it would bring up your dinner again (eating bugs in Mexico or airdive over the australian costline).
The mix of advise (although they should compare prices a bit better because you will almost always find better bargains over the Internet as their recommendations) and adventure is pretty nice too.
Being a European myself I have to admit that they almost always catch reality at visited places by really carefully watching and listening to the folks over there. Often passionate but never overestimated.
Every travel adventure would not only touch a specific view or attitude of the reporter but show even some day-by-day negatives or struggle of the population. That completes pretty much a picture you may already have for a country and will most likely support your decision for some travel plans or against.
Depending on your taste and attitude you can find useful, funny, strange, exciting or simply relaxing pictures of this world which becomes a whole lot bigger but nearer at the same time at Travel Channel. It values the specifics and (most importantly) the human side of evey place. Explaining "strange" things in a way that you can learn how easy it could be to live and let live. Wherever you go.
This channel is an island between all the advertising and "me too" or "always the same" type of TV.
Despite the fact that the program managers are somewhat dependent from their commercial support of course, they should do better in "channelizing" them a bit. But overall the commercials are a lot less disturbing as on TNT and the like.
Just try to hang in there for a while. There is never a show which is too long not to wait for the next which wil be as exciting and as educating in humanistic and intellectual manner as the one before.
A little vacation between butter toast and bed time. Sleeping away after having been in Sri Lanka for 20 minutes or at a turkish bazaar is anyway the better choice as supposed to be nightmared by uggly Hollywood massmurderers at night.
Recommended:
Yes
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