Globe Trekker - Spain

Well done. I'm glad I bought this!

It was interesting, but did not cover enough of the areas I was interested in seeing.

Great Loved this dvd.

I have found that Globetrekker sets the bar as for quality and content. I have collected several Globetrekker vdeos after seeing their product on PBS television. It is beyond me, how they get some of those shots in.Good job.

Although most of these videos are very fun, accurate, and educational to some extent, this Spain episode is not very good. The Northern section is fine and interesting but then in the Southern section there are strange sexual references on a few occasions making it impossible to show in a classroom. Having lived in Spain, it seems to overly stress stereotypes of what the people and places are like and doesn't do the culture justice.

This video has a short segment that is inappropriate for middle school and younger. I will not order Globe trekker for my classroom again. Some type of rating should've been on the box. Thank goodness I previewed the DVD. I'm not sure it is even appropriate for the high school Spanish classes.

I understand and respect all the views on here, and have seen this video (especially the NORTHERN Spain segment, as I won't show the southern one, either) no fewer than 15 times (3 classes times 5 years...). I always comment on certain scenes, to my high school crew "don't try this at home" (sleeping in a van with strangers) and I fast-forward the partying scene where they drink out of the keg. But the rest of it, I agree with ONE person who commented above, is quite entertaining. I too lived in Spain, and it brought back wonderful memories, and did not bore my students to tears like most documentaries do. I do not use it for a cultural lesson so much as a filler activity truly on the last day or two of school, when exams have been completed, and most teachers are giving students "free time" as they return books and such, around the school. It is always a high point of my year, and students remember it from year to year, too. It is colorful, and I love parts such as the human balancing team, the stone-lifters from the Basque country, and even the way that there is an unexpected last-minute cancellation of the first bullfight the narrator tries to attend, due to a military incident. All of this makes it seem more real, and the students seem to relate to it and are engaged as they watch it. Worth the view, in my opinion!

Given the mixed reviews on this, I wasn't sure what to expect. Essentially, this is two travel videos -- a young Australian woman roughing it through Northern Spain, and a 20-something American woman trekking around Southern Spain. The scenes brought back many fond memories of my own international travels during my younger years. However, this production is not useful as an information source or as a guide for planning one's itinerary in Spain.Basically, this is a video of two people doing hearty, Spartan-like ecotravel. Their trek is highlighted by rather extreme adventures such as the Pamplona bull run, parasailing, windsurfing and snowboarding... not exactly a Rick Steves or Rudy Maxa production for the average traveler. Frankly, I was a bit disheartened at these two young people's lack of graciousness when offered new foods or accepting local hospitality. The sense of entitlement was obvious and akin to disappointed brats on a trip to Disneyland.On the whole, this DVD offered little more than a video record of two young gal's quest for personal titillation -- a journey that seemed to touch them very little, nor did they genuinely touch others. Unfortunately, this is a painful statement about Generation Me and their blatant self-absorption. Not a worthwhile use of my viewing time.