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Video Link to TrailerFestival Traveler Melody Bates with friend outside Blood Manor in the pilot episode of New York Halloween for the new series "One Hundred Festivals To Go Before You Go"To Find out more about the series and pilot production go to www.curioustravelers.com

Episode Five from England. Daryn and Jed talk about the Hard Day's Night spent in Liverpool.

Episode Four was recorded on a train in London, England - Jed and Daryn talk about their stay in Paris.On deck: London!

Paris is very...how you say...French.We left the wonderful city of Paris, France today. We had asked you, our lovely readers and listeners, to help us decide how to get to England. After very little debate (and much procrastination), we chose the Chunnel. For those of you not familiar with this amazing feat of groundhog labor, what the French and English blokes did was get thousands of gopher-like animals to dig a huge tunnel underneath the famed English Channel....Oh, I'm sorry. Daryn has just

Coming at you from Berlin, Germany! Look out, Paris, you're next!

Berlin. So, apparently, there used to be some kind of “wall“ here. Everyone won’t stop talking about it. On and on and on. “Communism kept the rest of the world out.” “We couldn’t even buy a banana.” “Blah blah yadda yadda blah.”Now, as you cross from West Berlin to East Berlin, instead of seeing a wall with barbed wire, armed guards in towers and armored tanks, all you see is a sign:“Welcome to Berlin! Completely wall free since 1989!”HA! I kid. OK, so Berlin is amazing. Clean, beautiful, amazing

Hey this is Jed. We are now in Germany. It is hard to type because some of the letters are in different spots. We spent the day in former East Germany. It is awe-inspiring.We interviewed the Berliner Bear, the official mascot of Berlin, and found several people to talk to at the Brandenburg gate. We also went to the Holocaust Memorial.East Berlin is very alive. We had some members take us around and show us the sites while we interviewed people. These members grew up in East Berlin before the wall

Direct from The Forum in Rome, Italy!Episode Two was recorded at the Forum Romanum, in Rome. Next stop, Germany!

Coming at you from Rome, Italy!Episode One comes to you from Rome, our first stop on our trip across Europe.

Take Five Europe was the first program I believe that was greenlighted by the new General Manager of the Discovery Travel Channel. It is an extremely smart production decision. The series breaks new ground in integrating written and video blogs with an on air program, building an interactive audience and using small DV and Hi-Def cameras. It also is shot and edited in one week, so certainly current events such as the London subway bombings appear in the show, giving it an up to date feel, something

If we trace the history of the modern travel program the origns go directly to Lowell Thomas, the man who invented the term travelogue. Below is his biography from the wikipedia encyclopedia:He was born in Woodington, Ohio, in Darke County, the son of Harry and Harriet (Wagner) Thomas. His father was a doctor and his mother a school teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado. There he worked as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper.In 1911, he

Rick Steves has to hold the record of creating the most economical travel shows. For his thirteen episode half hour series:His crew is a total of three people:- Rick Steves - The presenter- A cameraman - usually a local, so he doesn't have to pay for flying in and housing him.- A directorProbably if he wanted to he could do away with the cameraman and have a crew of just two people. I personally like to work with a team of at least six - director, producer, soundman, cameraman, presenter and local

In five years digital TV will be the standard worldwide. Already it is the standard in Japan.In the united States the FCC mandate requires all television manufacturers to equip their products, except those smaller than 13 inches, with digital television (DTV) tuners by 2007. Digital tuners allow TVs to receive digital broadcasts from over-the-air signals, that is, when not hooked up to cable or satellite. The FCC claims that implementing its rule is necessary for all TV sets to be digitally

Globe Trekker is one of the best travel program out there.It's the only truly international travel program. It's got some of the best presenters, music and they spend their budget wisely; they haven't yielded to some of the cost cutting measures in other travel programs these days, where they shoot for just one week and the program, while hosted, is practically all voice over such as Rick Steves' Backdoor Productions. They spend time in the pre-production, production and post and always come up

The History of Globe Trekker/Pilot Guides, according to Curious Travelers (and correct me if I am wrong, some information is insider info, most is second hand and from research)If the grandfather of all travel programs was Lowell Thomas, the honor of the father of the modern travel program, called travelogues at the time ( a word Mr. Thomas coined), the mother of the modern travel program is Pilot Guides, started in 1994 by Ian Cross. The first program on Rio de Janeiro was presented by a then

There is a site MostTraveledMan.com, of a a dot.com millionaire, who has spent the few years traveling and traveling and traveling. He holds the new world record for visiting 500 countries and territories is 4 years, 3 months, 15 days. He even visited one of the most dangerous places on earth - Chechnya.I would love to get his take on the different places he visited. I'm currently producing thirteen one hour episodes. Why thirteen episodes. For some reason that's what the networks want. thirteen is

People often ask me how long does it take to produce a one hour travel program?I often joke that it takes as long as the size of the budget. The truth is that it usually takes a set amount of time; unless you have several production teams in the field at once you'll be lucky if you can make more than six travel programs a year, as each one takes a good two to three months from start to finish.Here's the usual timeline:Week 1: Pick destination and host, contact tourism boards, research

I've often wondered why networks pay so much less for acquisitions than commissions?It would seem that if you produced a program they wanted to buy and it fit into their programming needs they would pay at least as much as if it was a program they produced. After all they're not working in thin air, off just a pitch treatment or a demo. The program is actually a physical entity, something they can see, make changes if need be. Logically a finished film should cost more than a commisison.The reality

There is a new direction in travel programming. You see it on the Discovery Travel Channel and on the Fine Living Network, the two main providers of travel programming in the US. You see it also on the PBS travel programmers, although to a lesser extent.As I discussed list informational based travel programs are out. Video on Demand will service the real traveler market: the viewers who buy travel guidebooks and actually travel, rather than travel vicariously through travel programs.The new travel