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{{quote|''I make videos about weird railways, international borders, random other stuff. You'll probably enjoy at least one in four of my videos.''}}
A [[YouTube]]r who specializes in short, pithy videos about interesting locations in Europe. Since 2018, Tim (a Brit living in Paris) has been producing a [[Vlog Series]] consisting of five- to ten-minute segments highlighting interesting, unusual or just plain quirky sites to see around Europe. He has an admitted fondness for both mountains and railroads, but his content is by no means ''limited'' to them; the subjects of his videos range from the most beautiful sewage pumping station in England to an ironworks-turned-tourist attraction in Germany to a 5,000-year-old dolmen in the backyard of a restaurant in France. Through it all he provides informative and entertaining commentary leavened with a wit that is by turns both dry and Pythonesque.▼
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Unfortunately the [[COVID-19 Pandemic]] restricted his travels to France (and sometimes just Paris) for much of 2020, but that didn't stop him from exploring some less-than-obvious spots away from the usual tourist haunts.▼
▲Unfortunately the [[COVID-19
His YouTube channel can be found [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LVhJH_9cT2XKp0VAfsKOQ here].
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* [[Alternate History]]: Invoked in his video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5GpFnRMEQ How A Spectacular Piece Of Pedantry Created An International Enclave]'', when he speculates what the Spanish enclave of Llivia would have been like in a world where the 1659 [[w:Treaty of the Pyrenees|Treaty of the Pyrenees]] between France and Spain hadn't had a certain small loophole.
* [[Arlen Theory]]: Invoked in his video for
* [[Audience Participation]]: His 2020 Mediocre Mountain Challenge, in which -- inspired by his videos where he scaled the highest points in places like The Netherlands that have no high places -- he invited viewers to submit photos and videos of them climbing to the peaks of the least-impressive "mountains" local to them.▼
* [[Applied Mathematics]]: In ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1je2r4_aj0 The Disused Railway Where They Tested Rocket Trains]'' Tim describes the idea behind the 1970s-vintage French Aerotrain as "let's take an aeroplane, a racing car, a train and a hovercraft, mix them together, and see what happens" -- with a handy diagram depicting icons of each vehicle type being added together.
* [[Award Show]]: He created one for the Mediocre Mountain Challenge, with winners in a dozen or so different categories.▼
▲* [[Audience Participation]]: His 2020 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCVqLsjHL4 Mediocre Mountain Challenge], in which -- inspired by his videos where he scaled the highest points in places like The Netherlands that have no high places -- he invited viewers to submit photos and videos of them climbing to the peaks of the least-impressive "mountains" local to them.
** Similarly his 2021 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6LpWGfkhHU International Staycation Challenge], in which viewers were invited to provide photos and videos of apparently international locations in their immediate locale.
▲* [[Award Show]]: He created [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4Zmvew2WU one for the 2020 Mediocre Mountain Challenge], with winners in a dozen or so different categories.
** Similarly, he also created [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kecqqkKJA one for the 2021 International Staycation Challenge].
* [[Bait and Switch]]: It's not uncommon to for him to pull this, leading the viewer to expect one thing, then concluding somewhere else entirely after a [[Record Needle Scratch]]. For example, from a mid-2021 video on suspended monorails in Germany:
{{quote|[German national anthem starts playing] In the end, there was only one country who could take something as mad as this and make it economical, efficient and reliable. And that country was, of course...
[German national anthem interrupted with a [[Record Needle Scratch]], map appears on screen]
...France!}}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: As Tim himself lampshades in one of his videos, "...we're not here for any of ''that''."
** [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]: When fellow YouTuber [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd18OhMfRmjMjzSHP7Zrzmw Geoff Marshall] appears in Tim's video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1je2r4_aj0 The Disused Railway Where They Tested Rocket Trains]'', he makes his presence known by providing the catchphrase at a key moment.
*** And in ''[https://youtu.be/Kr4EZwZbxwQ Why Nancy Is Scrapping Its Magically Bonkers Monorail-Bus-Trams]'', Tim allows his friend Cat to deliver the catchphrase.
* [[Clip Art Animation]]: Has been known to animate artwork and photos of historical figures to present them speaking.
* [[Crossover]]: In early December 2021 with YouTuber [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd18OhMfRmjMjzSHP7Zrzmw Geoff Marshall], known for his "Least-Used Stations" series. Geoff appeared in one of Tim's videos, and Tim appeared in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EtBKPcHPrE one of Geoff's].
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: His
* [[Filler|Filler Episode]]: He'll gladly admit that some of his videos, such as the second "Fake Facades of Paris", are (as he put it) "lockdown content" -- releases created with the limited resources he had available to him during France's response to the [[COVID-19 Pandemic]], and as such suffer in quality compared to his other videos.▼
** For even earlier installment weirdness, his ''very first'' video on YouTube was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkbRjb7YDY about climbing the highest point in every county in England]; the only thing it has in common with his later videos is the music, which he composed and performed.
* [[Easter Egg]]: His March 18, 2024 video, ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMraUchIS4 The Cheeky Hidden Features On Stockholm's Metro Trains]'', is about finding easter eggs hidden in the new cars of Stockholm's subway system, and namechecks the trope at the start.
▲* [[Filler|Filler Episode]]: He'll gladly admit that some of his videos, such as the second
* [[Giant Foot of Stomping]]: Has made a few appearances in what were clearly uses inspired by ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
* [[The Mountains of Illinois]]: Invoked tongue-in-cheek with his Mediocre Mountain Challenge, itself spun off from a series of videos in which he visited the highest points in low lands, whose altitude could reach a dizzying ''tens'' of feet. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by both Tim and the viewers who submitted their videos when they exaggerated the effort expended in climbing all the way to the tops of these towering peaks.
* [[Presenters|Presenter]]: Although Tim takes all the footage for his videos with a hand-held camera (and sometimes a drone), he narrates each one, and is almost always on-screen for at least part of each segment.
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: Frequently paired with [[Bait and Switch]] humor.
* [[Running Gag]]: Very often his videos include a bit of narration along the line of "Here we are in beautiful [Town]. It has [extensive list of historical and cultural features]. But of course we're not here for any of ''that''."▼
* [[Relax-O-Vision]]: Invoked in ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5GpFnRMEQ How A Spectacular Piece Of Pedantry Created An International Enclave]''. While discussing the [[w:2017 Catalan independence referendum|2017 referendum on Catalan independence]], he runs a series of landscape images with the caption, "While we discuss this controversial topic please enjoy these calming images of the local countryside".
▲* [[Running Gag]]: Very often his videos include a bit of narration along the line of "Here we are in beautiful [Town]. It has [extensive list of historical and cultural features].
* [[Travelogue Show|Travelogue Channel]]
* [[Visual Gag]]: In the opening credits of every episode: The show title is initially presented as ''The Time Traveller'' over footage of Tim; he then falls out of frame, taking the "E" from "Time" with him to reveal the true name of the series.
* [[Vlog Series]]
* [[Well, This Is Not That Trope]]/[[Immediate Self Contradiction]]: in ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDlNQ8C5pM The Giant Old Ironworks Anyone Can Explore (Without Getting in Trouble)]'', he describes visiting the [[w:Völklingen Ironworks|Völklingen Ironworks]] as all the fun of urban exploration, without the danger, trespassing, or fear of arrest -- "So not very much like urban exploration after all."
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