Around The World in 6 Minutes

Terra Sacra Time Lapses from Sean F. White on Vimeo.

Time lapse video shot in 24 countries on 7 continents.

Nomadism

Nomadism from Returning to Nomadism on Vimeo.

Even though I am 99% sure I don’t want to be a nomad, there is still that 1% where I want to wander the world forever.

Allo Allo {Deux Américains à Paris}

Allo Allo {Deux Américains à Paris} from Land of Nod Inc. on Vimeo.

Ah, Paris. Je t’aime.

Quick Look at Kiev

MiniLook Kiev from threeshot on Vimeo.

Kiev is somewhere I would love to visit in the not-to-distant future. This tilt-shift video gives a great overview of what looks to be a beautiful, interesting city in the Ukraine.

Featured photo credit: Stuck in Customs

One Day in Venice

Venice in a Day from Joerg Niggli on Vimeo.

I love this short timelapse video of Venice from daybreak to sunset, especially the shots of the gondolas and going under the Rialto Bridge.

Via Travel Blissful

Featured photo credit: daniela_lepus

A Little Berlin Inspiration

Little Big Berlin from pilpop on Vimeo.

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Germany so I thought I would share this cute tilt-shift video of Berlin I saw earlier today on Travel Dudes. The fantastic music is Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt.

Midnight Sun in Iceland

Midnight Sun | Iceland from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo.

I love this time lapse video of Iceland’s midnight sun. Iceland is a dream destination for me and this just makes me want to go even more.

Via GoBackpacking

(Featured photo courtesy of Stuck in Customs)

Year in Review 2010 Video

This is a very slapped together video of my 2010 travels in Europe, Japan, and Australia. I would have liked to have put together a more professional looking slideshow but I wanted to get the video done before the end of the year. I only just bought Sony Vegas and haven’t had time to play around with it and I know the audio is particularly bad. Sorry! I hope you’ll watch anyway. I’ll try not to leave things to the last minute in future :)

Happy New Year!

The Amazing Race 2010

Best clip from The Amazing Race so far:

Pearl Jam

Some videos of my favourite Pearl Jam songs. I’m still crazy happy after having seen them live :)

Orangutan <3 Dog


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Informal French Expressions

Helpful video posted by Jennie if you are interested in picking up more informal French expressions. I always use je m’en fous with F when he annoys me.

Greece

I think I’m going to move to Greece.

 

I don’t know why, but I can’t stand that movie, especially with a Mexican playing a Greek, but at least it has the best Greek song of all time.

Here is a better version of the song but without the images:

New Year’s in Amsterdam

My preferred activity for New Year’s Eve is to stay at home and go to bed early. This year though, I ventured out, all the way to the party city – Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is a great city and I love it. It’s a very young city, with people obviously heading there to have a good time and party. New Year’s is no exception and I’m sure many people went to Amsterdam especially to celebrate the new year.

We headed to Dam Square at around 11pm and found it was much quieter than expected. I had heard there are a few different places to go to see the fireworks but there was little going on in Dam Square, that’s for sure. A few people were setting off small fireworks but apart from some guy almost blowing his head off with a mis-fired firework, there wasn’t much entertainment.

We decided we may as well go back to the hotel but on the way stopped off at Rembrandt Square. Much more was going on there with a live band, a lot more people, and a lot more crazy fireworks.

Without a doubt, I have never experience a New Year’s Eve like this one. In Australia, most people go to see the fireworks put on by the local government, not set off their own fireworks. In fact, I think in most states fireworks are illegal. So seeing people set off thousands of fireworks and firecrackers in the street and in crowded squares was crazy and scary (for me)! I even saw many parents giving fireworks to their kids to play with!

Along with the guy who had the firework go off in his face, lol, I also saw one guy get hit in the backside with a stray firework, lol again.

At midnight, I’m not sure if there were official fireworks or not seeing as the fireworks were going off all over the place I couldn’t tell what was going on. The constant explosions and smoke made the city look and sound like a war zone. I’ve never seen anything like it.

We got a taxi back to the hotel not long after midnight, driven by an Afghani taxi driver who must have thought we were in an actual war. Driving through 3 red lights, cutting off countless other cars, and narrowly avoiding drunk pedestrians, we made it back to the hotel in one piece, barely.