Travelogue TV shows - Any good ones?

[Coolboy]

I watch Mark Wiens, who lives in Thailand. He used to travel overseas (not this year) and is food focused.
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l like his vlog on unagi in Tokyo:

[gch555]

l like his vlog on unagi in Tokyo:

I watched that one only recently I think. I tend to watch more Thai ones because he speaks Thai and his wife is Thai so it's Thai stuff with a local feel.

He also has a childhood friend Joel Bruner who lives in northern Thailand and does a similar thing with his channel. He sometimes heads across the border into Yunnan for some videos. More vlog style and not so much food doco though, but it's easy watching (or sometimes just listen to it in the background while I work and flick over when I hear something interesting).

[Awardwell]

I enjoyed James May's Japan and find most of the Top Gear/Grand Tour specials funny and beautifully filmed.

Paul Hollywood's 3-program series Continental Road Trip is ostensibly about cars but goes deeper.

Rounding out vehicle related shows is YouTube's Itchy Boots - Dutch woman, motorcycles, travel.

[vmlinuz]

I enjoyed James May's Japan and find most of the Top Gear/Grand Tour specials funny and beautifully filmed.

Paul Hollywood's 3-program series Continental Road Trip is ostensibly about cars but goes deeper.

Or to combine the two, there's the recent Paul Hollywood Eats Japan in which he discovers that no, they don't live entirely on rice, fish and noodles, and yeah, they do make pretty good bread...

[Skyhook]

For me, when I want to watch something and just switch off, I always enjoy watching Two Greedy Italians, especially season 2, as they rediscover the ' old ' country after being away for 50 years. It's just great for me to watch.


Another good one is Manu Fidels, My France with Manu, again Season 2 I enjoyed a lot more as it focuses on the South of France, which is great to watch and reminds me of our fondly enjoyed times there with my family.

[East_coast]

For me, when I want to watch something and just switch off, I always enjoy watching Two Greedy Italians, especially season 2, as they rediscover the ' old ' country after being away for 50 years. It's just great for me to watch.


Another good one is Manu Fidels, My France with Manu, again Season 2 I enjoyed a lot more as it focuses on the South of France, which is great to watch and reminds me of our fondly enjoyed times there with my family.

Food travelogues are too painful to watch for me. With a storybook of Food, fork, food, vista, bland exultations, fork, uncomplex titbit of local culture. I would prefer a 2 hour show on the economic development of the area and how it has influenced food culture.

[Skyhook]

Food travelogues are too painful to watch for me. With a storybook of Food, fork, food, vista, bland exultations, fork, uncomplex titbit of local culture. I would prefer a 2 hour show on the economic development of the area and how it has influenced food culture.

I cant help you there, as economics never interested me, but maintaining traditions passed down from the older members to the young, is interesting to me. Preserving and paying homage to the past. Hence why I chose those two shows as in both cases the shows are hosted by people who have been away from their ancestral homelands for many decades. Depends what you value most about life I suppose and how one responds to it ;-)

[Coolboy]

For me, when I want to watch something and just switch off, I always enjoy watching Two Greedy Italians, especially season 2, as they rediscover the ' old ' country after being away for 50 years. It's just great for me to watch.


Another good one is Manu Fidels, My France with Manu, again Season 2 I enjoyed a lot more as it focuses on the South of France, which is great to watch and reminds me of our fondly enjoyed times there with my family.

Amen to that. Two Greedy Italians is a good show.

[East_coast]

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[Coolboy]

Food travelogues are too painful to watch for me. With a storybook of Food, fork, food, vista, bland exultations, fork, uncomplex titbit of local culture. I would prefer a 2 hour show on the economic development of the area and how it has influenced food culture.

That's true in some cases, but there are exceptions. I like Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy on CNN: