While much of the scenery was lush and beautifully captured, most aerial photography is just that - aerial photography and little more. Quite often when the heliocopter would rapidly ascend while turning, a wave of nausea would linger. Place names intended to appear across the corner of the screen were out of the viewing area. Palermo, as an example, would only allow Pale to be seen while the narrator was mute. This was a constant. The narrator, I felt, was the worst choice made in the production and the wonderful music just about drowned her out because it was too loud over her voice....which means you really needed to crank up the volume so that your neighbors could enjoy the music while you listened intently to try and hear what she was talking about. Pitiful. Rather than narrate a travel film, such a sultry voice would be better suited to a dark cabaret scene. Thumbs down on this malarky .....I won't even bother with the second of this set.