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  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ciaomc

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Excellent, Based for people on a budget

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Many different TV names which is rather confusing

    Over the past few months, I have become really interested in travelling. When I discovered a show called Globe Trekker I was overjoyed because it was a show with everything a traveller could want, such as off the beaten track coverage, roughing-it guides, and no package holidays! ***The Globe Trekker Story*** In the early part of the 1970’s a man called Tony Wheeler was working in a steel plant and one day thought what it would be like to travel. Soon he and his wife Maureen found themselves travelling across to Australia from London and through Asia. The arrived in Australia with 27 cents in ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    andy_findlay

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very informative , Realistic , aimed at the budget traveler and not poeple on 40k P.A. Exciting

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The program is not long enough.

    Discovery Travel and Adventure is a t.v channel that has been missing from our t.v screens. But now it is here and I hope it is here to stay. When i saw the first ever episode Lonley Planet I was hooked instantly. the hour long episodes concentrate on one country or reigon at a time. Each time there is a different presenter or guide as i like to call them , traveling with nothing but a backpack and a phrase book. You get to see what a country is realy like. they never stay in top class hotels. They stay in hotels that we could afford to stay in on a low budget. The information that the give ... more
  • 1 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    travel-expert

    4 Stars A world apart! 10/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages see text

    Disadvantages Disadvantages see text

    These hour long travelogues are a world apart from the sanitised, touristy portrayals we are accustomed to on the BBC Holiday Programme and ITV's Wish You Were Here. They show the real country, warts and all. Of course, they cannot do justice to the contents of the Lonely Planet Guide books, which are usually 400 - 500 pages of densely packed detail. They are, however, a useful series of snap snots of what a country, its flora and fauna, and most of all, its people are like. A must for anyone who intends to take a trip away from the usual beach resorts etc. ... more
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