I am not the most sporty person you'll meet, so it's no wonder it's taken me a couple of hundred episodes to put together something about travelling to play sport - but this episode convinced me it's a wonderful way to see the world. Any opportunity you have to travel for a "niche reason" - …
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Being a Tourist at Home with Jenny Herbert: Episode 237 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
You'd know I usually only run a solo interview with someone reasonably well known - say Paul Theroux, for example - but this episode is special. Jenny Herbert's new book The Art of Being a Tourist at Home touches on so many thoughtful travel themes that I couldn't split up an interview into small …
Travel Slip Ups: Episode 235 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Bad things happen all the time - but things do seem to go wrong even more recurrently when we travel. In this episode of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast the travel slip ups aren't tragic - and although they probably weren't funny at all at the time, they make great stories years down the …