Connecting with local people when we travel is a true joy for me - whether it's just a quick conversation in a queue, or a deeper day or more spent together, learning about how our lives are the same and different - I love it all! In this episode I chat with three guests who agree, and have found …
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Paul Christie, Walk Japan: Deep Dive into Rural Japan – Episode 314 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
If you decided to escape the corporate world, would you buy up a plot of land in fairly remote part of Japan? It's not my first thought, but this is what Walk Japan CEO Paul Christie did at the age of forty, and with many good consequences. One of these is that Walk Japan has a strong social, …
Train Travel in Australia – Episode 313 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
It's common knowledge that train travel beats air travel in the sustainability stakes, but in recent months I've put this to the test a bit more than usual, in a country where it can be hard to do: my homeland, Australia. It all began when Dr Susanne Etti, the Global Environmental Impact …