Escapism 48 items | updated Jul 24 2009

    • Crazy Italian Tub Race // Comment Picked for TV - video
      Thanks to katevalentine from San Francisco State University who uploaded her comments to current.com after watching the pod, "Crazy Italian Horse Race."...
      by 3 years ago  |  0
    • Holiday in my Bedroom - video
      Jamie needs a holiday... he craves those thrills you get when you discover somewhere for the very first time. If only he could experience all that excitement of new...
      by 4 years ago  |  7
    • Escapism - watch the trailer - video
      May Bank Holiday signals the start of summer, but what are you going to do with it? Escapism is a week of shows about travel and adventure, featuring a guide to the...
      by 4 years ago  |  1
    • Further Afield
      Looking for a bit of festival fun further afield this year, links to some European festival delights are just below; Sonar: Barcelona, Spain...
      by 4 years ago  |  3
    • Berlin's Fantasy Hotel - video
      Propeller Island is a place like no other - from levitating beds to sleeping on logs, each room of this surreal building has an entirely different theme... in this...
      by 4 years ago  |  2
    • Jumping off a Bridge - video
      Like bungee jumping but with a swing! A rope is attached to the underside of the bridge and then you jump off the side of the bridge and swing underneath it for a...
      by 4 years ago  |  3
    • Bigwheels & Meatwagons - video
      Driving. Is it a pleasure or a burden? Traffic, gas and parking tickets can drive people mad in ways few other things can. Luckily, Lonely Planet contributor Donovan...
      by 4 years ago  |  7
    • Jordan's World Wonder - video
      Adrian explores Petra one of the nominees for the new Seven Wonders of the World.
      by 4 years ago  |  6
    • All Eyes On MMJ - video
      Shot at Lollapalooza, "All Eyes On My Morning Jacket" featuring the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra enlisted the help of the band and their fans to shoot...
      by 4 years ago  |  23
    • Freight Hoppers - video
      See what happens when two daring travelers embark on a journey from Halifax to Montreal. Mitch St. Pierre, who is diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (a brittle...
      by 5 years ago  |  4
    • Thinker Getaways - video
      The world is a crazy place. Life entails so many questions on so many levels. How is one to deal with serious moral dilemmas? Well, we don't know, but Lonely...
      by 5 years ago  |  8
    • Urban Wakeboarders - video
      A combination of water-skiing, snowboarding and surfing, wakeboarding involves being towed along the surface of the water on a small board. We take it further and...
      by 4 years ago  |  2
    • Cheese Chasers - video
      Cheeses are rolled down a hill at a traditional cheese rolling festival in Gloucestershire. Hundreds of people run, fall and roll after them, and the winner is the...
      by 4 years ago  |  8
    • Vibing a City's Beat - video
      Turn off the iPod and crank up the good vibes. In this Bluelist pod, Lonely Planet contributor Aaron D’Arcy tells us about the three best ways to tune into the...
      by 5 years ago  |  3
    • Travel Roulette FLL - video
      Current staffer JT gets shipped to a random destination with his friend Brodie only to find out that they have no bags, no clothes and no reservations anywhere. What...
      by 4 years ago  |  25
    • Kev Shields, The One Handed Climber - video
      Kev Shields was born with most of his left hand missing, despite this disability he now find escapism and satisfaction in hard bold rock climbing.
      by 4 years ago  |  2
    • Freefall: Dive of Dave - video
      Capturing an English summer's day, we follow 'Dave' as he embarks on his first sky dive.
      by 4 years ago  |  5
    • Berlin in 90 seconds. - video
      we know the worlds most interesting cities from postcards, films, and photographs, but how do they actually look like, what's happening in the streets, what...
      by 4 years ago  |  1
    • Top 3 Natural Highs - video
      Enter into a state of higher consciousness with Don George of Lonely Planet. For his Bluelist, he shows us the top three places in the world for natural highs....
      by 4 years ago  |  7
    • Kite-Surf Morocco - video
      Dakhla is, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere, a series of lagoons on the edge of the Sahara desert and the Atlantic Ocean. I was filming a couple of...
      by 4 years ago  |  5
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