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Foreign filming trips, what a jolly - NOT!

Joe Crowley | 12:15 UK time, Monday, 16 November 2009

Copenhagen
Every now and then we dash overseas to film something and for reasons I'll never understand my friends always think that this act is in some way glamourous.

"Oooooh, jetting off to Spain are we? Very nice!" would be a typical response.

And as most of the sequences we film will only make a minute or two of television, my friends will never have any idea of the reality around how that footage came to be.

Until now that is.

Last week we had to go to Denmark to interview someone as part of an investigation we're due to air in a couple of weeks and this time I made a video diary.

Accompanied by Cameraman Joe and Producer Jonathan the diary begins on board a well known budget airline en route to Copenhagen:

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  • 1. At 08:09am on 17 Nov 2009, Gary Brun wrote:

    Been there done that.
    Come over to Norway and film... Ill show you around and you can have a couple of drinks with the Scandinavian women too.
    How about a piece on a guy in Norway who runs a database for recording metal detecting finds in the UK and all of the political jealousy that goes with that??? :-)
    I enjoyed the video diary.

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