No comments about Holland & Your Dutch Ancestry.

No comments about Colorado Golf Resorts.

No comments about Mexico City.

1 comments about Marrakesh & Fez.

1. Planning a trip to Morocco? This video may help you with the highlights of Marrakesh and Fez. There seems to be a dearth of video material available for Morocco, so it is especially nice to find that one of few things available is also of good quality. I have used the Super Cities video series for several years to help identify locations for interesting travel and this one fits the bill. My trip is lined up for tweleve weeks from now. I'll add to the review when I return.

No comments about Munich.

No comments about Berne & Lucerne.

No comments about Johannesburg.

1 comments about Budapest.

1. This video is one of the "Super Cities" series produced by the International Video Network, which consists of one-half hour tapes of 22 of the more interesting cities in the world. They are, far and away, the best travel videos that I have seen.

   The approach that the producers take is to mix aerial and ground footage in roughly 50/50 proportions. This approach is especially effective for Budapest, which is actually two cities (Buda and Pest) divided by the Danube.

   What comes across is what must be an exceptionally pleasant city to live in, especially in the summer, with numerous parks and outdoors cafes. While there are some interesting sights, however, they are limited in both number and quality. As a result, I took Budapest off my list of places to visit.

   That, of course, is one of the things that a good travel video should do--provide you with enough information to make an intelligent decision as to whether or not to visit a place.

   The Super Cities series also includes a tape on Istanbul, which is similar to Budapest (in mixing elements of East and West), but is a far more interesting city. That tape is also excellent, the only difference being that it will convince you that you want to visit Istanbul.

No comments about Stockholm.

1 comments about Cairo.

1. This video is one of the "Super Cities" series produced by the International Video Network, which consists of one-half hour tapes of 22 of the more interesting cities in the world.

   The approach that the producers take is to mix aerial and ground footage in roughly 50/50 proportions. This approach is especially effective for cities that, like Cairo, have large-scale buildings and monuments.

   I viewed this with an Egyptian friend, who bet me that there would be pictures of camels within the first minute. Not so. What we saw was a program directed towards intelligent viewers who want to obtain a realistic portrait of Cairo and its environs. As the producers point out at the end, it is a unique city combing ancient charm with modern development. We were both impressed with the objectivity of this film; our only regret was that it did not last longer.

   To date, this video and the one on St. Petersburg, Russia are my favorites in the series, followed closely by Barcelona, Lisbon, and Vienna. The only one that didn't seem to work was London.

   ...they are difficult to find. One clue is that they all seem to have come out around 1994 and cost [$$], a real bargain when you consider the much higher prices for their inferior competition.