The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

A Year Without Travel: Episode 265 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

January 29, 2022 By Amanda Kendle Leave a Comment

Back for 2022, The Thoughtful Travel Podcast kicks the year off with just me - a reflective chat about 2021 and what I have in store for the new year. Show notes: Episode 265 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast A Year Without Travel Happy new year! It’s 2022 and who really has any idea …

Languages and Accents: Episode 261 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

December 17, 2021 By Amanda Kendle Leave a Comment

To prepare for this episode, I ran a poll in the Thoughtful Travellers Facebook group about which languages members had tried to learn. The results were interesting and the top ten were: French (82 votes)Spanish (61 votes)German (50 votes)Italian (45 votes)Japanese (22 votes)English as a …

Celebrity Encounters on Your Travels: Episode 264 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

December 17, 2021 By Amanda Kendle Leave a Comment

I'm afraid I'm the kind of person who often has no idea who you're talking about when you tell me about all the actors in the newest movies or who the totally trending celebrities are: in other words, one of the least likely people to publish a podcast episode about celebrities and yet, these …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It Could’ve Been Much Worse: Surviving Travel Dramas – Episode 386 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

Some travellers have a much keener sense of adventure and embracing physical risk on their travels, and others just stumble into a travel drama they didn't anticipate; we have all kinds on this …

Women in History and Travel – International Women’s Day 2026 – Episode 385 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

It's International Women's Day again and I've got a different focus this year: some of the ways history and travel is not the same for women! When we travel, especially on our own, we can be …

Travel With All Your Senses – Episode 384 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

We often focus on the visual when we travel ... after all, travellers go sightseeing, not "sound-hearing" or "taste-tasting"! But when we look back on our travel memories, it's often a smell, taste, …

Small Connections, Big Memories – Episode 383 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

One of the most memorable parts of travel is the people that we meet - not just the friends we make or the people we stay with but also the incidental encounters along the way. Speaking with people on …

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