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Podcast #008: Uzbekistan

2019/03/06 2019/03/06 0

Welcome to Episode 8 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This episode is dedicated to the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan – a place famous for the Silk Road, the ‘Great Game’ (where Britain and Russia vied for supremacy in Asia in the 1700s and 1800s), and …

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Podcast Special Episode #007½: “It’s Grim Up North”

2019/01/11 2019/01/11 0

Welcome to Episode 7½ of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This is a bit of a special edition of an episode, possibly the first of many, as I seek to fill in gaps in my schedule plan caused by procrastination and administration. This time I’m pretending to …

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Podcast #007: Sexuality while Travelling

2018/12/26 2018/12/26 0

Welcome to Episode 7 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This time I’m talking about “Sexuality while Travelling”; whether people feel they need to change how and where they choose to travel based on their own sexuality, and people’s different experiences of travel itself when they have …

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Podcast #006: The Great Outdoors

2018/12/10 2018/12/10 0

Welcome to Episode 6 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This time I’m talking about “The Great Outdoors”, about how it feels to leave your house, get outside, and be lost in nature. It’s a concept that’s always felt important to me; the openness, the beauty of …

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Podcast #005: Vanuatu

2018/11/16 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 5 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. As mentioned last time, I recently went backpacking for 11 weeks. For almost a month of this, I explored several of the islands that make up the South Pacific country of Vanuatu. While I was there, it …

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Podcast #004: Reverse Culture Shock

2018/10/11 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 4 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. As you know, I’ve just had an 11-week trip around Oceania & Sri Lanka, and arriving back in the UK has sent my mood a little low. Though I’ve now been back for a bit over three …

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Podcast #003: Bucket List Travel

2018/07/06 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 3 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This time the theme is around the idea of a Bucket List, what people think of them, and why I have what you might call an anti-bucket list of a few places I’m specifically not intending to …

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Podcast #002: Hometown Travel

2018/06/28 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 2 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This week, the theme is “Hometown Travel”. I’ve always felt too many people go travelling across the world to find and see interesting and scenic things, and yet some things equally as spectacular, interesting, or different may …

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Podcast #001: Travelling Barefoot

2018/06/23 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 1 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. I aim to produce a weekly pod on topics relating to travel; not just about places, but also the reasons behind travel – why we travel, what we like about travel, and what issues we have with …

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