Who doesn't have the travel bug these days? City breaks or beachside adventures has seemingly become a normal part of life for smany. If you haven't been bitten by the bug yet, TG4's new travel show Téacs Taistil is sure to get you there.
The show follows presenters Lousie Cantillon, Proinsias Ó Coinn and Séaghan Ó Súilleabháin as they travel all around Europe taking part in different challenges over three days and getting to know the local area but the big twist…they don’t know their location until the day before!!
Tógfaidh Téacs Taistil an lucht féachana ón tolg ar thuras bhreá fud fad na hEorpa is na láithreoirí triúir ag tabhairt faoi dhúshláin deacra i gcúpla dos na háiteanna saoire is áille ar domhan.
Dar le Louise ‘Tá ár gclár difriúil ó aon rud a bhí ar TG4 riamh agus mothaím fíor bhródúil as an deis rud chomh difriúil sin a dhéanamh’.
Tá an triúr láithreoirí tar éis a gcasadh nua fhéin a thabhairt leo go traidisiún taistil TG4.
The show is now in its third week. Episode 1 in Split, Croatia saw Louise address the crowds as their new empress, Proinsias taking up a new local sport and Séaghan getting to know the local landscape on a horse trek through the mountains. Episode 2 meanwhile brought the three travellers to Copenhagen where they got stuck in to GAA training, try their hand at rooftop beekeeping and take a boat trip through the city. With more to come this season, there's still lots to do and see for the presenters and the audience.
Perhaps more importantly than seeing the sights and chilling out in some of the world’s most beautiful spots, these three amigos are helping to show AnGhaeilge in a whole new light. All three are of course fluent Gaeilgeoirí but still, their casual use of the language while they explore their surroundings and have the craic together shows the joy that can be found through the Irish when it’s taken out of the classroom.
Séaghan makes the point that the locals in the places the gang visited never made a big deal of hearing spoken Irish. ‘It would be very normal for people in Europe to speak more than one language, so people seemed to just accept that of course we had our own language, just like them’ He also says that people in Ireland tend to make a bigger deal out of hearing people speak as Gaeilge than they did abroad, an interesting insight into the Irish attitude towards our own language.
The appeal of the show is massive. Téacs Taistil shows the audience how social media can be used to find everything and anything you want in a new location and some of the show is even shot on the presenters phones. This is of course going to appeal to the ‘instagram generation’ and is something the gang lean in to ‘We’re getting a great opportunity to show the Instagram side of travel, the pictures, reels and vlogs all young people take’ Proinsias also points out how his own mother ‘who wouldn’t normally have a big interest in travel’, is suddenly making plans to head to the continent next year.
Níos mó ná an taisteal agus an fhámaireacht atá sa chlár, feictear triúr cairde a bhfuil mór lena chéile agus a bhfuil in ann an craic a bheith acu is iad amuigh ar thurais nó ag ligean a scith. Ceapann Proinsias gurb é sin ceann dos na rudaí is fearr faoin gclár ‘tá caidreamh iontach idir an triúr againn, ní hé go bhfuilimid ag déanamh iarrachta a bheith inár gcairde lena chéile, tá ‘dynamic’ iontach ann’. Cuireann pearsantachtaí bríomhara na láithreoirí go mór le caighdeán iontach an chláir, ná chaill an chuid eile don sraith a bhfuil ag teacht go luath ar TG4!
Téacs Taistil airs every Thursday at 9:30 on TG4.
