{"id":3347,"date":"2009-05-21T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2009-05-19T13:43:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:43:40","slug":"the-armchair-traveler-great-travel-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-armchair-traveler-great-travel-dvds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armchair Traveler – Great Travel DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"travel-dvds\"In between trips, there’s nothing better than kicking back with a good DVD.<\/p>\n

Some of the AT’s favorites are\u00a0travel series such as Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>and Samantha Brown’s Passport to Europe <\/a><\/strong><\/em> – all the fun and cultural education without the hassle.\u00a0 Though theoretically designed for the prospective traveler, Rick Steve’s Europe Through the Back Door<\/a><\/strong><\/em> DVDs are great entertainment whether you have any intention of going to a particular destination or not.<\/p>\n

A rainy weekend can always be salvaged by Enchanted April <\/a><\/strong><\/em> or \u00a0Under the Tuscan Sun<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0In both movies,\u00a0those seeking a different and richer life\u00a0are \u00a0seduced by the beauty and romance of Italy.<\/p>\n

For some travelers\u00a0it’s all about the journey and not the destination. They love everything about\u00a0\u00a0airplanes and airports; for this person Tom Hank’s The Terminal<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is\u00a0 a quick fix of airport culture. Other fun flicks in the air-trip-as-disaster mode are Red Eye<\/a><\/strong><\/em> or Snakes on a Plane<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In between trips, there’s nothing better than kicking back with a good DVD. Some of the AT’s favorites are\u00a0travel series such as Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days and Samantha Brown’s Passport to Europe – all the fun and cultural education without the hassle.\u00a0 Though theoretically designed for[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-reference","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-RZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}