Click to visit Lonely Planet’s YouTube channel video on Uluru.
A little research goes a long way in virtually any area, and travel videos are no different. It helped me turn a quick review of one video into a discovery of a couple of other video sources that I’ll link toward the end of the post.
The post started as a review of another International Programs offering, a video on Southeastern Australia that was also produced by Lonely Planet. While the 45-minute disc, featuring former English footballer, travelogue host and comedian Ian Wright, was not exactly to my taste, it might be worth the time spent for some COMM 373 student. The disc can be checked out from the IP office.
I found the video less informative and only slightly entertaining; perhaps it’s Wright’s style that doesn’t do much for me. Quirky like much of Lonely Planet’s work, the 2005 video focuses mostly on five different cities in the Australian Southeast, but the focus is often scattered, overly brief or lengthy, and trivial. Frankly, had I seen this on TV, I might have switched channels in the first five minutes, most of which was spent on Wright making light of an annual country music festival in Tamworth, the “Nashville of Australia.”
Words Are Roads 