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'''The Tim Traveller''' is 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 roughly five- to fifteen-minute segments highlighting interesting, unusual or just plain quirky sites to see around the Continent and in Great Britain. 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.
'''The Tim Traveller''' is 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 roughly five- to fifteen-minute segments highlighting interesting, unusual or just plain quirky sites to see around the Continent and in Great Britain. 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.


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 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.


His YouTube channel can be found [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LVhJH_9cT2XKp0VAfsKOQ here].
His YouTube channel can be found [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LVhJH_9cT2XKp0VAfsKOQ here].
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* [[Clip Art Animation]]: Has been known to animate artwork and photos of historical figures to present them speaking.
* [[Clip Art Animation]]: Has been known to animate artwork and photos of historical figures to present them speaking.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: His very first video, ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFh6wFTJiQ Schwebebahn: Why Wuppertal's Trains Are Much Cooler Than Yours]'', is distinctly different from his later videos. Its tone is drier, more academic, with only one touch of humor at the very end, and he does not appear in it at all. As a subtitle on a mid-2021 video notes, "My early voiceovers had all the energy of a sloth on valium".
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: His very first video, ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFh6wFTJiQ Schwebebahn: Why Wuppertal's Trains Are Much Cooler Than Yours]'', is distinctly different from his later videos. Its tone is drier, more academic, with only one touch of humor at the very end, and he does not appear in it at all. As a subtitle on a mid-2021 video notes, "My early voiceovers had all the energy of a sloth on valium".
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
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