My TV Travel Bucket List

As you can see from my above statement and ‘About Me’ I want to travel and my life at the moment involves seeing the world from the comfort of my sofa and getting fat at the same time.  So why don’t I mix the both up and visit the beautiful places (without the crime and zombies) I see on a screen every day.

Yes it’s cheaper and easier to lie on my sofa and watch the imagery world go by but where’s the excitement and enjoyment of visiting other countries and meeting new people.  Now I’ve visited a few but that was before I had this idea now I have another reason to go back… yes I mean you Ibiza and Paris.

The Telly Travel List (Blue = visited)

UK

England
Birmingham (got to start somewhere):  Peaky Blinders, Doctors. 
London: 24: Live another Day and every other English drama.

Wales

Rhondda Valley: Stella
Barry Island: Gavin & Stacy

EUROPE

Spain
Ibiza/Majorca:  Mad Dogs.

France

Paris:  Braquo
French Alps: Annecy (Lake Pub) & Tignes Dam: The Returned

Italy

Rome:  Romanzo Criminale
Sicily: Young/Inspector Montalbano

REST OF THE WORLD

Caribbean:  Death in Paradise  
Canada, Toronto:  Rookie Blue 

USA

Chicago:  ER (the George Clooney years), Chicago Fire, Mike & Molly
Washington:  Bones, Scandal
New Orleans:  Treme
Hawaii: Hawaii 5-0, Lost
Texas: Friday Night Lights
Atlanta:  Walking Dead
Virginia: Criminal Minds, NCIS
Philadelphia: Body of Proof
New York: Friends, Blue Bloods, The Following, Elementary and many more
Los Angeles: Mentalist, NCIS: Los Angeles, Two & a Half Men, Major Crimes/Closer to name a few.
Dallas:  Oh Man what’s that programme called again!

Any new TV locations would be greatly appreciated and a message to SKY TV if you want to reduce my mega monthly subscription payments so that I can save for my trips that would be greatly appreciated too. 

Hey if you don’t ask you don’t get!

Hawaii - TV/Travel Bucket List

'Savour the experience' is what the Hilton Hotels advert says before every Hawaii 5 – 0 episode on Sky 1 HD and Hawaii is an experience that I would love to savour, as the islands are TV heaven with Hawaii 5- 0 and Lost and movie heaven with The Descendants,Just go with it, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and 50 1^st dates. OK I will rephrase that to a little bit of film heaven with the Descendants. Maybe the movie making formula is if the script is average, let’s make in a beautiful country so people forget about the story and admire the backdrop instead.

Lost was like a relationship, you have high hopes for it and then after seven years of sticking with it, it lets you down. Seven years of watching, then re watching, analysing, then re analysing – an amazing TV show but tres disappointing ending. Were they all dead all along? Who was Jacob? How the hell did Ben move the island? What was the black smoke? Just a few unanswered questions still going around in my head. I suggest Lost – The Movie or a Ben and Hurley spin off show to answer everyone’s’ questions. I know I’m going to repeat myself thought-out this blog but seven years of my life was wasted.

I’m too young to watch the original 5-0 back in 70s but I did remember the theme tune and ‘Book em Dano’ so maybe I watched a few re-runs back in the 80s. The Hawaii 5 – 0 21^st century version is brilliant and the beautiful backdrop is an added bonus. The double act of Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan as Steve McGarrett and Danny ‘Dano’ Williams can be very funny with their ‘put-downs’ to each other and of course kicking ass and looking hot always helps me make the decision to watch a TV show. It’s a little bit of blue skies, sunshine and escapism before a grey and cold week when I watch 5-0 on a Sunday night.

So Hilton, the Seychelles Labriz looks amazing, I would prefer to stay at London Paddington for the Olympics and I could do with a few weeks at Los Cabos, Mexico after a stressful week at work. But regarding my TV Travel Bucket List, I want to savour the experience at the Hilton Waikiki Beach Hawaii, revisit a classic at the Hilton Arc de Triomphe Paris (any excuse to go back to France) and as for escaping the ordinary, The Beverly Hilton, La La Land Los Angeles sounds interesting.. Now that’s four plugs Hilton (now 5), please take the hint.