Destinations can come and go in popularity - Iceland wasn't a place anyone went when I was a kid, but these days everybody wants to go there. It's fascinating to see these ebbs and flows. In the last couple of years, I've started to hear from a number of friends and podcast listeners who've been …
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Volunteering Experiences While Travelling – Episode 145 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
If you've ever looked into the idea of volunteering while you travel - or indeed have already been part of the growing "voluntourism" sector - you may well have noticed that it's fraught with trickiness. When are you really helping? - when are you hindering? And when are you actually doing more harm …
Grief, Travel and Change – Episode 144 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
I’m so fortunate with this podcast in that I sometimes get to talk to people about really intimate, emotional parts of their lives - I’m so grateful when they share them and I know we can all learn a lot from them. In this episode I’m bringing together three stories which could all be sad - they’re …