Island Watch

Who doesn’t love sailing through an archipelago? We end each season of Island Watch with a wander back through the highlights: how we planned our itinerary, what island eats we ate, and what makes islands so darn watchable!

Happy face spiders, shrieking eels, the incredible origins of the bungee jump: the wonders of the largest body of water on the planet - including its 20,000+ islands - are laid out in the BBC documentary series South Pacific.

Can't get to the Caribbean? No worries, sunshine and deliciousness are on their way to you via the cooking show Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen. Did we eat it up? Will you?

We visit occupied Guernsey during World War II in this fiction-based-on-fact account of how the people of the island tried to make it through those times. And we get an answer to the burning question: What is potato peel pie, really?!

Top End Wedding is top-notch: romance, laughs, a road-trip and picture perfect scenery. All that AND a visit to the Tiwi Islands in Australia’s top end?

Cape Breton Island is rated the #1 island to visit in continental North America by Travel & Leisure Magazine, but Mooney Pottie - the New Waterford Girl - can’t wait to hit the road to anywhere else. Just us, or anyone else willing to swap places with her?

Sunny islands, musical rom-com, and Trinidad and Tobago Carnival? It’s Bazodee! Did it leave us dazed, lightheaded and caught up in a magical moment?

The Wilds takes place on a beautiful south Pacific island ... with lots of mystery.

We're getting ready to launch the good ship Island Watch for all-new season 2 adventures. We visit near and faraway places by watching movies, TV shows and documentaries that are set on islands. Join us on our voyages across the seven seas for show reviews, commentary, conversation, quizzes and more. We leave port on January 25th.

"We're here, but should we have come?" asks Richard Ayoade on every Travel Man show. We hang out on Tenerife with the Travel Man as he travels with Lena Dunham in this bonus mini-episode.