Overseas Adventure Travel

‘English’

Melvyn Bragg travels through England and abroad to tell the story of the English language.

Watch an exclusive video clip of Yves Rossy – aka Jetman – as he throws himself from a plane and flies like a bird. See more clips and add your adventures at www.natgeoadventure.tv

Learn some specific English travel vocabulary that you can use on your next trip. In this advanced English lesson you will see two colleagues talking about the travel plans of one of their nieces. The girl is having some difficulty getting her trip arranged. You will learn some common vocabulary for talking about your travel plans. Curious about learning online with Englishtown.com? Visit bit.ly for a free trial and more information. To learn a language where it is natively spoken, see www.ef.com .

Man crosses English Channel in chair carried by helium balloons
As the young stowaway says in Up, the film that put eccentric balloon-based travel on the map: “You know, most people take a plane.

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Isabel Savory’s first book, published in 1900, was a best seller sensation about a game hunting expedition she made with friends from Bombay up to Peshawar, to the Khyber Pass into Kashmir and then down to the Nigiri Hills. In less than a year she was trekking in Morocco and then published the book about her journeys there, in 1903. Isabel Savory travelled to Morocco in 1901 with a friend who took the pictures for her book “In the tail of the Peacock”. She descr… More >>

In the Tail of the Peacock – Travel and adventures of an English woman in Morocco

Fuji veteran brings kids English Adventure
If you hike in the Chichibu mountains this summer in Saitama Prefecture, you may stumble across an American-style summer camp with huge tents and 50 to 60 school kids exploring nature with walks and tree-climbing adventures and enjoying campfires and roasting marshmallows. And you will find the tallest “kid” there is Jeff Jensen, 41, an alpine mountaineer and program manager of English Adventure.

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