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Travelling with Isaac - Cross Country View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

Isaac and his dog, Bucket, are our guides for a road trip across the great open landscape that forms the United States of America. From vast swathes of Kansas farmland and Colorado’s Rocky Mountain ranges to the expansive salt flats at Bonneville, we’re certainly getting a taste for the open road!

Travelling with Isaac - New Brunswick View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

Isaac hikes to visit a waterfall in Canada’s Fundy National Park. The wooded and rocky park is at the end of the Appalachian mountain range and has a shoreline on the Bay of Fundy, which has some of the most dramatic tides in the world.

Travelling with Isaac - Quebec View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

Isaac travels by van through North America with his wife and his dog. Today he stops off in Quebec, Canada to tell us a little about the culture, cuisine, and most famous landmarks of this old city.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 19 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Finally home! Sigrid talks about her trip home and how it feels to be back after a month away.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 18 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

For the final days of Sigrid's visit to the New York area, she leaves the rocky North Shore and goes south to a place she knows very well from her childhood—the beach! It's a nice place to visit even in the cooler weather.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 17 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Newbie Newbie

USA

Let's look at how Long Island was formed around 20,000 years ago. It has to do with a glacier that brought plenty of material along with it and left some behind when it receded.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 16 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

We're back on Long Island, exploring the North Shore with an outing to a wildlife refuge on one of the necks, or small peninsulas that jut into the Long Island Sound, the body of water separating Long Island from Connecticut.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

This last part about the D&R canal talks about the special bridges that were needed to cross the canal and who had to take care of them. And if you're wondering if the canal is still in use, Sigrid answers that question. There's a special tribute at the end of the video for which you might want this link.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

What makes canals so special? In part 2, we explore locks. Locks are like elevators for barges and boats!

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

After exploring the five boroughs of New York City, we move on to Princeton, New Jersey, where Sigrid gets curious about a canal built in the early 19th century.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

In part 2 about the borough of Manhattan, Sigrid completes her overview of all 5 boroughs of New York City. She talks about some nicknames for New York City, including "the Big Apple."

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

We've finally made it to Manhattan, the smallest but most densely populated borough. When we think of New York City, Manhattan is more often than not what comes to mind. This is part 1.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

It's time to have a look at Staten Island, the 4th borough out of 5. It looks closer to New Jersey than to the rest of New York City and has some other peculiarities.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

To get from eastern Long Island to the city, travelers and commuters have to go through Queens, so this borough naturally became a very important transit hub, with Jamaica at its center. It also became crisscrossed with many expressways for vehicles.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Having explored the Bronx and Brooklyn, Sigrid now tells us all about Queens, which is geographically speaking the largest of the 5 boroughs of New York City.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Sigrid talks about the different ways to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and about some of the characteristics of this borough. For one thing, it is more affordable than Manhattan, although by no means a cheap place to live.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

In the first of two parts, we look at Brooklyn's beginnings and how it came to be one of New York City's boroughs.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

The borough of the Bronx has gotten a bad name because of issues with poverty and crime. It's also had its share of neglect and mishandling on the part of local and state administrations. However, the Bronx also has some claims to fame, such as the Bronx zoo and botanical garden.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

The Bronx was the first area to become part of New York City. Lying to the north and northeast of Manhattan, it was a logical addition. The quirky name of this borough has its own history.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Sigrid seeks to answer the question "What's a borough?" In doing so, she talks about how New York City got its start, and also about the surrounding counties that played an important role in its development. In this video, you'll see 18th- and 19th-century maps of the area.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Sigrid describes the first part of her trip from Long Island to New Jersey, taking a moment to tell us about the famous Verrazzano Narrows Bridge.

Traveling with Sigrid - Exploring Long Island, NY and Princeton, NJ - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Sigrid traveled back to the U.S. recently to visit her family. She talks about her trip and takes some "detours" to share what she learned about some of the places she visited. She also happened to go to Mexico, where she shot this introductory segment.

John S in New York - Hans Christian Andersen View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

In Central Park, John finds himself next to a sculpture of the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, author of some of the world’s best loved stories, including "The Ugly Duckling."

Oxford, England - Things to do in Oxford View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

In this video, you can learn all about Oxford, England, a beautiful university town steeped in history. There are many places of interest spread among the many colleges that comprise the university.

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