If you could go back in time and tap on the shoulder of your younger self as you backpack around the world, what would you say? I’ve been pondering this question and asked several other experienced travellers to tell me their thoughts on it too, and the results are pretty interesting! In this episode I […]
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Enviable Travel Jobs – Episode 391 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
It’s easy to be a little envious of anyone who gets to travel to interesting places as part of their work, but when the work itself is also truly fascinating, then I think it’s fair that we can all be rather jealous! Nonetheless I loved chatting with these four guests about the experiences their careers […]
How To Be A Good Volunteer Abroad – Episode 390 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
The world of volunteer tourism is a tricky one. Getting the balance right between enabling people to volunteer in another country, and meeting the needs of the places they volunteer at, isn’t easy, and the guests in this episode have many thoughts about what can go wrong and what are better ways to go about […]
How Travel Transforms Our Thinking – Episode 389 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
The more I travel (and the older I get!), the more I realise how little I know, and how wrong I’ve been about so many things! In this episode, I chat with three guests about various ways their travel experiences have transformed their thinking and perspective, and the general consensus is that everything’s more complicated […]
Iceland: Chats with Locals – Episode 388 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Iceland is a place many travellers dream of visiting; if, like me, you’ve been lucky enough to see Iceland, you probably desperately want to return. In this Chats with Locals episode, I talk with three Icelanders about their country: why they like living there, what Icelanders are really like, and all about their favourite Icelandic […]
10 Years of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast! – Episode 387
A decade ago to the day – 25th March 2016 – I launched the first episodes of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast. Somehow, I have just kept interviewing great people about their thoughts on travel, put together episodes almost every week, and magically, I’ve now been running this podcast for a full ten years! To celebrate, […]