Happy Favourite Film Friday! Todays video is a fun one about Juno and Stephen’s day spent in Bangkok, I think you will enjoy it.

What’s that? Three new Travel Yourself videos in less than one week? Wow!!!

If you haven’t heard yet, I launched a brand new website more than 2 weeks ago called “The Taste Of Travel”. A food and travel blog where I share the best and worst food stories from myself and other people from all over the world. Not only in blog posts and through amazing drool inducing photographs but also through videos.

I just finished my first food & travel video about the fantastic VooDoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon. Read more about VooDoo Doughnuts on the Taste of Travel HERE and click play below to watch the video!

Stay tuned for more.

The other day on CailinTravels.com I wrote about how I am sometimes a last minute traveler. As I write this I am sitting in a hostel in Seattle, Washington on a last minute trip to the Pacific North West of the USA.

This past week the Nomading Film Festival was holding their “Winter Recess” in Portland, Oregon and not only did I think it would be awesome to attend but what would be more awesome than attend but not tell anyone I was coming? Well I told Tawny and Chris from Captain and Clark and they were my co-conspirators.

This was a last minute trip so there wasn’t much planning but while I sat in Toronto’s Pearson airport on a long stop over I uploaded my newest Noffbassador Assignment video and I wrote on Facebook “I wish I could be there!” talking about “missing” the winter recess in Portland.

I flew to Seattle staying in the great American Hotel – HI Hostel in Chinatown and drove to Portland, Oregon early that next morning with Tawny and Chris. We toured around Portland for the day eating VooDoo Doughnuts, walking along the waterfront and eating yummy mexican food all while on the look out, not wanting to run into the Noff guys.

I spent the night in the eco-friendly Hawthorne HI Hostel excited with the idea that I would surprise everyone the next day and hoping they hadn’t found me out from a foursquare check-in or a slip up somewhere.

The next morning we did more touristy things and then while stopping for a coffee an hour before the film screening I was almost seen by one of the guys, but mine and Tawny’s quick thinking and the tint on her cars windows saved me from being seen.

To see if I was able to surprise the guys I guess you will just have to watch the video. I hope you enjoy.

This weeks Favorite Film Friday #035 is a gorgeous view of Italy off the beaten path. Made by Matthew Brown who actually won the grand prize at a competition for the tourism board that he made this for and after you watch it you will know exactly why.

I failed my Noffbassador Assignment

But in true Noffbassador form I made a video anyway! Mostly consisting of me not doing the assignment and pretty video from my trip. Hopefully you will enjoy and Assignment #4 won’t be as difficult.

Engage. Explore. Record. – If you are in Portland, Oregon this weekend check out the Noff Winter Recess where they will be screening the films from June’s festival as well as an exciting video by Bassam from his trip to Everest Base Camp!

You have until April 30th to submit your own travel video Noff, so hit recording and start creating!

We pretty much talk about everything related to making travel videos and it might just be something you are interested in especially if you are just new to the idea of making your own travel videos. I hope you enjoy it and thanks again to Heather for the interview!

Tips for making great travel videos – Podcast interview with Cailin O’Neil

Happy Favorite Film Friday! Each Friday I try to bring you an awesome travel video, either one of my own or an amazing one found somewhere on the interwebs and this week I’ve brought you a fantastic new video.

In keeping with the popular video series on the internet these days “Shit Girls Say” and all of the other videos that have since followed after it I bring you “Shit Travel Bloggers Say”. I hope you enjoy it and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter and LIKE my Facebook fan page.

I’m always looking for great videos to share so if you think you have one that is particularly awesome send it my way by either mentioning it in the comments or sending me an email to: cailinoneil (@) travelyourself.ca

This has been a great way to get a different audience’s eye’s on my work and I would love for you to check out the videos and posts on their site. Also a comment here or there and a 5 star rating would make me a very happy Travel Video Blogger.

San Francisco in a Minute

Paris in a Minute

London in a Minute

Travel Yourself Does Iceland

For the Love of Travel

Any support would be greatly appreciated and stay tuned for new Travel Yourself videos coming soon!

~Cailin

Last week when I was writing my “goals for 2012” post on www.CailinTravels.com the other day I was thinking about something that I had always wanted to do – visit Christmas Island off the coast of Australia and see the red crab migration. Then I looked further into it and realized that that takes place at the beginning of January… right about now. Of course it does because that is when it is summer time there, so I guess that won’t be happening this year.

Even though I don’t love crabs (afraid of them attacking me and such) I have always been mesmerized by this migration through different NatGeo-esque videos I have seen about it online and on TV. Sadly just this week before the migration started a cargo ship docked at the Island started sinking, then due to swells broke in two spilling oil and phosphate fertilizer. The crabs were already in danger from the yellow crazy ant introduced to the island and now this oil slick won’t be that great for them. The crabs have persevered however and the baby crabs started coming out of the ocean this week. Check out this awesome video shot by Christmas Island Parks Australia.

Maybe I’ll make it there next year. Happy Favorite Film Friday! ~Cailin

If all goes according to plan in the next month I will not only be revealing a new logo for Travel Yourself but also a full redesign of the site. I’m finally looking to work with sponsors (If thats you please contact me! cailinoneil (@) travelyourself.ca) and will be creating / producing more travel videos than ever.

Expect more “Cities in a Minute” videos, collaboration videos with other travel video makers and hopefully another Nomading Film Festival nominated video… but lets not count my chickens before they are hatched. Wow… that is an odd saying… however I am pretty good at jinxing myself so maybe I should stop writing…

If you haven’t seen my post on Matador Network yet on the top 11 travel videos that rocked 2011 go check it out and follow up with Part 1 and Part 2 to that post. Yes I had so many options I just put every great video into a post . Also to date 5 of my videos have been featured on the revamped Canadian travel channel “Travel + Escape” check them out HERE, I would love your support.

I’ll leave you now with my surprisingly most successful video of 2011 – A Newfoundland Language Lesson.