I get lots of emails about the podcast and sometimes, they are really exciting ones – when Jeremy Bassetti of Travel Writing World emailed me to suggest we do a collaboration, that was one of the good ones! Obviously I love travel books (or I wouldn’t run the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club), and I was already a keen listener of his podcast, so the chance to record a chat together to introduce our audiences to each other sounded perfect.
Jeremy has had some amazing writers on his podcast, including Pico Iyer, Colin Thubron, Monisha Rajesh and Rolf Potts as well as some good friends of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast like JoAnna Haugen and Pam Mandel. He’s a gentle interviewer who brings out the best in his guests and I highly recommend a listen! And to start with – you can listen to our joint chat in this episode, where we quiz each other about favourite books and authors in the travel space and compare some of our podcast-related experiences too.
Show notes: Episode 257 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Travel Writing World x The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
In this special collaborative episode, I chat with Jeremy Bassetti of the Travel Writing World Podcast. We talk about our most memorable and influential travel reads, what’s important about travel literature and why we enjoy it. (So many reasons!)
We also compare our podcast experiences, including talking about writers we’ve enjoyed talking to (spoiler: we only say nice things!).
And of course, readers like us are very often also writers, so we chat about the future of the travel genre and our own experiences of writing books, and some of our hopes for the future of the industry.
Links:
- Travel Writing World
- Info about the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club
- Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers
- Join our LinkedIn group for Thoughtful Travellers
- The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
- Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
- All the Way to the Tigers by Mary Morris
- A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer
- Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
- Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer
- Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran Khan
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