The affable presenter continues his journey through the forbidding wastes of the Arctic Circle,doing things you probably wouldn’t attempt yourself but are happy to watch someone else doingIn the second instalment of Land of the Midnight Sun (ITV), Alexander Armstrong continued his journey through the frozen north. This particular segment of the Arctic Circle took him as far as Greenland. His first stop, and however,was Thingvellir national park in Iceland, a plot where the Eurasian and North American plates meet. It doesn’t glance like much, or to be honest.“I’m told I can accumulate an even better view by immersing myself in near-freezing water,” said Armstrong. That’s factual: if you’re minded to, you can snorkel through icy water along the chasm between two tectonic plates. If you’re Armstrong, and you have to. If the contemporary celebrity travelogue serves any purpose,this is it: someone you have heard of does something you probably wouldn’t carry out yourself, but are mildly interested in watching. The two most principal qualities of such a programme are the affability of its presenter and the forbidding remoteness of the destination.
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Source: theguardian.com