Action Packed Travel: Recent Episodes
Felice & Peter Hardy
Welcome to Action Packed Travel! Our podcast features amazing travel stories...without having to go anywhere. The episodes are interviews with people who've been inspired by their adventures. They're also full of information and useful links, all of which you can find on our Show Notes. Our podcast can be used for future travel ideas and plans for the days when we can explore the world again! About us: we're Felice & Peter Hardy and we’ve spent half a lifetime travelling to just about every corner of the world, making a living as travel writers out of what we like doing best – and that’s skiing, biking, hiking, eating, exploring, city breaks, seaside…and a whole lot more. We've had lots of favourable reviews, such as: "What an interesting and diverse world you are opening up for us in a nicely laid back way. Very informative and some are also wonderful archive material."
It has its challenges, particularly if you're a woman, says Anna Bowkis.
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Freelance public relations consultant, Paddy Daly, took the plunge and moved his family and his business to the other side of the English Channel.
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We're re-running this popular episode about Harry Mitsidis, who has travelled to every country in the world...at least twice. He's the founder of a website called NomadMania. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
The quaint medieval community of Lacock might seem familiar.
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Alice Gully of Aardvark Safaris takes a journey back in time to São Tomé and Príncipe.
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This week we're in Val d'Isère in the French Alps, exploring the complicated subject of ski and boot rental.
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Dick's Tea Bar in Val d'Isère once captured the imagination of generations of visitors.
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Minty Clinch, who died this month, was a good friend of ours for more years than we can remember. She was a fine writer and witty to the very end. We have decided to re-release an interview we did with her five years ago. The episode is about her adventures on horseback to some of the wildest corners of the world. To Minty's many friends: we hope you enjoy listening. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy.
We're giving this episode another airing. It's what might best be described as a rather long bike ride. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
One of the first tour operators to give away the company to their staff. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Because this means so much to us, we've repeated the episode! The Somerset town of Frome has seen many battles in its history, from the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 to a campaign to win Packsaddle Community Fields in 2025.
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This week we're talking to Jay Stevens, CEO of Wayfairer Travel, whose passion is snowboarding in Japan.
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Zoe Langley-Wathen walked 630 miles around the coastline of Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset – and then she wrote a book about it.
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The Somerset town of Frome has seen many battles in its history, from the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 to a campaign to win Packsaddle Community Fields in 2025.
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Forty years ago, Patrick Nash took a ten-month walk through the heart of Africa. We talked to him about the journey that inspired his latest book, Shots Across the Water.
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Jean McNeill, author of Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet, is an award-winning Canadian-born writer, the first-ever female director of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and a professionally qualified safari guide.
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Scottish explorer and Arabist Alice Morrison decided to take a long hike to talk to the ordinary people, particularly the women who live there.
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Valentine Warner is a celebrity chef who's made no less nine TV series, and has written five books. He likes to cook in remote and beautiful corners of the world. His new venture, Kitchen in the Wild, is set in a private safari lodge with views of Mount Kenya.
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Travel writer and author of My Family and Other Enemies, Mary Novakovich, explores her homeland, including the hinterland of Croatia most foreigners never visit. Music: © Barney and Izzi Hardy
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Author, podcaster, and creative entrepreneur Joanna Penn is a best-selling and award-winning writer of horror, thrillers, dark fantasy and travel memoirs. She's also taken up going on pilgrimages. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
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Simon Parker has cycled in this election year across the whole of America, from the northwest coast of Washington state, all the way to the most south easterly tip of Florida. He's written a book about it. Music: Barney & Izzi Hardy
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Sophia Ashe, hooked on ponies and horses since childhood, joined a team of gauchos at a ranch in Argentina and wrote a book about her experiences.
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Bletchley Park is a country mansion 35 minutes by train northwest of London, where Alan Turing and his team of cryptanalysts cracked the complicated codes of the German Enigma machine.
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How do you survive on your own for days on end? So far, seven women have completed the Vendée Globe, the toughest round-the-world race. Joan Molloy, a brand ambassador for Helly Hansen and a mother of two from the west coast of Ireland, is determined to become the eighth woman to compete and the first to win it.
Veteran underwater cameraman, John Ruthven, talks to us about his book and a lifetime of exploring the deep. He is also a producer of Sir David Attenborough's The Blue Planet, a zoologist, film director, writer, editor and stylist.
This week we're in Kenya talking to safari camp owner, Calvin Cotter, whose family came here from the Great Plains of the Midwest in the years before World War One.
This week, we're exploring the fraught subject of taking small children skiing for the very first time. We're going to start and end with a warning to listeners: If you want to book a nanny service-inclusive holiday for the coming winter, there is really no time to waste. You need to book right now.
Le Grand-Bornand is not a name like Morzine or Chamonix that trips easily off the tongue when we mention skiing, but it's typically and traditionally French.
It's the twentieth anniversary of Arc 1950. The resort began as the idea of Canadian resort developer, Intrawest, creator of Mont-Tremblant in Quebec and manager of some 20 other resorts in North America – from Whistler to Mammoth.
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This week we're talking to someone who specialises in creating holidays that are entirely different – taking you to places you probably thought were out of bounds to all tourists.
We caught up with Rory Dixon who organises skiing-touring trips off a boat in Norway and Greenland, life-changing adventures to distant corners of the world.
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Jess Isbrecht is a digital nomad who travels full time with her horses.
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Harry Mitsidis has travelled to every country in the world, at least twice. He's the founder of a website called NomadMania.
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To discover a little of what former Royal Marine, Sam Cox, will experience living alone at -30°C, podcaster Peter Hardy spends time in an industrial freezer.
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No, not the 1951 movie starring Gene Kelly and Lesley Caron... Jay Swanson moved from the USA and now lives in Paris where he calls himself: 'a YouTuber, writer, and puppy wrangler.' He publishes a guide to the city called Paris in my Pocket.
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We're on the road exploring a thriving sector of the travel industry that continues to explode in popularity across Europe.
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Untamed Borders sets out to satisfy the hunger of that rare breed of traveller who's already been to the far corners of the earth, got the T-shirt but still wants more.
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This week, we're talking to travel guru, Amin Momen, whose London-based company Momentum Ski organises bespoke holidays.
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Turn your wildest travel dreams into reality, with superyacht voyages to the end of the earth, intrepid journeys to deserts, jungles, polar regions and the oceans.
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This week, we're in Vienna for an unusual episode of Action Packed Travel – unusual because our principal guest is Felice herself. She's just published a book about her grandparents' dramatic escape from Vienna to London on the eve of World War II.
Chris and his girlfriend Phoebe are in the saddle, for what you might describe by any standards as a rather long bike ride.
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With the sunny weather outside, we felt it was time to republish this episode about Bath Thermae Spa. Bath in the southwest of England is famous for its Roman baths. In its Regency heyday, the supposedly curative waters attracted the cream of British society…and of course, Jane Austen. 2,000 years later, the waters were re-harnessed in the magnificent thermal spa located just a soap bath's throw away from the original.
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Tom Kevill-Davies has managed to carve a highly successful career for himself out of his twin passions, cycling and eating.
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Only a handful of ski resorts in the Alps will in future offer reliable snow cover throughout the season. These include Val d'Isere, Tignes and Val Thorens in France, Cervinia in Italy, and Zermatt in Switzerland – not forgetting the Austrian glaciers.
Globally, there's just a handful of specialist Courchevel operators who look after their guests on this giddy level. London-based Consensio is the leader of the pack.
Cheryl B Engelhardt is a singer-songwriter who composed and recorded her album, Passenger, on a train journey from New York City to Los Angeles.
Action woman extraordinary – mountain and ocean photographer, skier and freediver, Melody lives her life on the edge.
It was three years ago that we launched our podcast and today we're in a village that dates back to 1930. It is now evolving into what should become one of the most important future destinations for skiers in the whole of Europe.
We went on a lightning tour of some of the crumbling coastal defences linked by a network of underground passages and even an underground German hospital.
A vast ski area, environmentally-friendly chalets, and birds of prey are just a few of the attractions of Morzine.
With its glorious terraced houses, tree-lined promenades and grand public buildings, Cheltenham in Gloucestershire is said to be the most complete Regency town in Britain. Of course, it's best known these days for horse racing.
We first visited in summer and are now looking forward to better weather to come when we can explore the gardens of The Newt once again – all 17 acres of them.
Jacob Perkins' idea of fun is to travel down a mountainside in a straight line, reaching impossible speeds of up to 150mph without any form of motor.
For the past 40 years, Richard Kay has been the expert on the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and has travelled the world to report on the comings and goings of the Royal Family.
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The village of Lacock was once a quaint medieval community with cobbled streets, cottages and coaching inns set around a tumbling stream. It all looks rather familiar because we've seen it in the cinema, movie theatre and TV screens – scenes from Pride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey and Harry Potter were all shot in Lacock.
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High in the central Pyrenees, a one-hour drive from Toulouse Airport, we're in search of big and beautiful brown bears.
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Explore a world of polar bears and icebergs, or cross the Atlantic to forgotten corners of the Caribbean. You need the right spirit, but absolutely no previous seafaring experience is necessary.
This week, we're taking an intimate look at one of Austria's largest, most diverse and exciting ski areas.
We loved last year's episode featuring Geraldine Fasnacht so much that we've decided to air it again. Geraldine’s idea of a little light, adrenaline-fuelled recreation is to climb one of Europe's highest peaks and then dive off it in a wing suit at speeds of up to 180 kilometers per hour.
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The future of Marston Park is at risk due to planning permission controversy. Listen here to see if you'd like to support it.
Legendary explorer, John Blashford-Snell is never happier than when he finds himself astride an elephant in India or paddling a dugout canoe in the South American rainforest, or shooting rapids in the crocodile-infested waters of the Nile.
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Most people don't truly appreciate the glory of the Alps that's revealed when the snow melts, the cows leave their winter quarters and chew the cud in meadows and high pastures sprinkled with flowers. They also fight each other!
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Another watery sport for this hot weather is powerboat racing, which is said to be the fastest growing marine motor sport.
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Here in the UK with its current heatwave, our thoughts turn to water. What bliss it would be to go swimming in crystal clear waters – all you really need is a pair of Speedos, goggles, a hat and the ability to swim a few kilometres in the warm waters of the Mediterranean or the Caribbean.
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In Hampshire and Dorset in the south of England, we explored the country's most visited national park. It's a wild and beautiful place where the locals, ponies, cattle and even pigs roam free under obscure common laws that date back to feudal times. We met up with Anthony Climpson, boss of the tourist enterprise, Go New Forest.
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Last year we visited Blenheim Palace and were struck by its splendour. It is set in thousands of acres of rolling parkland outside the village of Woodstock in Oxfordshire. It's bigger than Buckingham Palace, but it's also privately owned by the family that built it over 300 years ago. It's been the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough since 1704 and was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
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When you visit, you need to be prepared for pelotons of bicycles, mostly not of the sporty type that you see in the Tour de France, but the ancient sit-up- and-beg variety with a basket for books on the front, and in the saddle an undergraduate in a hurry, or a don in a flowing black cloak. You'll meet them – and hopefully miss them – around every corner.
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What did Jane Austen and the Roman emperor, Claudius, have in common? The answer is: a love of bathwater. Here's a repeat of one of our popular episodes.
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Eye-Opening Moments Podcast
Eye-Opening Moments are stories of adversity, encounters, and perspectives. They are...
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We revisit one of our popular episodes, which is all about the world's number one neolithic site.
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Sandy K Nutrition - Health & Lifestyle Queen
Healthy living in your 40’s, 50’s and beyond. Live your best life for your next 40. We...
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Have you ever thought about what lies beneath your feet, under the pavement, under the road? This week, we're going underground to explore a network of mysterious tunnels hidden beneath the ancient Somerset town of Frome. It is 20 minutes south of Bath, and it has a long history dating back to Anglo Saxon times.
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Contemporary classical cellist, Eva Boecker, is one of 19 soloists from 9 countries who plays with Ensemble Modern. Every year the group performs about 100 concerts in Europe and worldwide.
The Hacked Gym
Applying teachings of Behavioral Economics & Psychology toward your health & fitness goals
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This week we're at Bletchley Park, the country mansion 35 minutes by train northwest of London, where Alan Turing and his team of cryptanalysts cracked the complicated codes of the German Enigma machine.
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Inspector Morse is the most famous TV show that was filmed in Oxford, and Colin Dexter, who used to sit in the hotel's Morse Bar penning his latest novel, would often write the Randolph into his stories. Freddie Mercury did a concert here, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien visited.
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Weekly interviews, strategy, and advice for building your online business the smart way.
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This week, we're on the road exploring the one sector of the travel industry that has absolutely thrived throughout the pandemic and now continues to explode in popularity across Europe.
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Thermae Bath Spa in the Roman city of Bath is in a building that looks not only to the past, but also to the future.
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Cheryl B Engelhardt is a singer-songwriter who composed and recorded her latest album, Passenger, on a train journey from New York City to Los Angeles.
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This week we are switching things around and playing you an interview with the two of us. Music © Barney and Izzi Hardy
Ted Cragg in Quebec makes podcast episodes about travel podcasts. His is called Travel Podcast The World.
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This week we're going skiing to La Plagne and letting the train take the strain. Travelski is a brand new charter that takes snow lovers from St Pancras in central London to Moûtiers and Bourg St Maurice in the French Alps.
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The Sella Ronda is one of those world renowned but slightly mysterious ski circuits – but no one ever quite explains what it actually is, and indeed how good you have to be to be able to complete it.
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Whether it's in a beach villa or a mountain chalet, Izzy Boland of WandrLust-Jobs.com helps people find their dream job.
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**Warren Smith is one of our favourite ski gurus, so we decided to revisit this episode from last year.
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We celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of a new one with a look back at a few of our favourite episodes.
This week, we're raising our glasses in celebration of the Christmas spirit, and who best to do it with than the cocktail king himself.
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This week we're in the French ski resort of Val d'Isere, which opened its lift system at the end of November for the first time since March 2020.
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We were so impressed by Stephanie Hunt's achievements that we have decided to re-run the episode of July 2020. Yes, she hiked the Pacific Crest Trail on her own – that's the 2,650-mile length of the west coast of the USA.
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This week we're in the village of Lacock and this quaint medieval community might seem rather familiar.
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The Swiss village of Andermatt is undergoing a major transformation into a world-class year-round destination.
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Rachael Westbrook provides solutions for skiers and snowboarders so they can continue to do what they love. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Where better to be spooked than Wookey Hole in the scenic Mendip Hills in the west of England.
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The Newt has established itself as a world leader on a stage that is already strewn with hotel perfection. We discover just how good great can get on this exalted scale of accommodation, ambience, natural surroundings and overall cultural experience.
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Co-host and producer of Action Packed Travel, Peter Hardy, was a guest of Iain Martin's on The Ski Podcast
Consensio do the ski holiday at a slightly different level to everyone else – it's the level of luxury and service, but also the fact that it's totally bespoke and tailored to whatever guests want.
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Don't want to fly? This winter sees the re-introduction of a direct ski train to six resorts.
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Jess Isbrecht describes herself as a horse nomad who travels full time with her partner Byron and their horses, Mackenzie and River. She hosts the Happy Trails podcast and has a blog called Ride+Climb.
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One of our favourite episodes was number 17 – which was called 7 Marathons 7 Days 7 Continents. We interviewed Rob Bell, who took on the ultimate endurance challenge.
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One of our favourite episodes is an interview with Oli Broom, who cycled on an overladen bicycle from London to Brisbane
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Leah Whitfield of G Adventures explains that if you're travelling, you need to have a positive impact on the local people whose homes you're effectively going to stay in, and realise that you can have an incredible experience but also help change lives at the other end.
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Lynsey Devon of Heaven Publicity tells us about creating the images of hotels and tour operators, resorts and even whole countries
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Digital nomads are enterprising business people who travel the world with a laptop, settling wherever takes their fancy for days or for months at a time before moving on to fresh horizons.
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For people who don't know the word, glamping is glamorous camping where you can stay in nature, but without the basic hardships that usually accompany a night in a tent.
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'For a few seconds, you don't know whether you're upside down or inside out,' says Louise Hall, who jumped out of a plane for the first time last week. She has also been ice-swimming, climbed and skied Mont Blanc, walked to the North Pole, and dived the Great Blue Hole off Belize.
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This week's episode is about time and travel – not time travel, but how to spend your leisure time. We spoke to bestselling author, James Wallman, and to Gavin Copus of Air Charter Service.
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We asked ski industry specialist, Craig Burton, what the ski situation is in the world at present and whether we will be able to go skiing this winter.
This week we're in Colombia or to be more exact, in the Coffee Region, the fruit bowl of this enchanting and ever-surprising South American country where we're talking to New Zealander, Bruce McLean. But how safe is it?
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We've revisited our popular episode, Fly Fishing: From Trout to Trevally. Peter McLeod's career as an extreme fly fishing expert has taken him from India and the Seychelles to Sudan and Christmas Island.
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Blenheim Palace is set in thousands of acres of rolling parkland outside the village of Woodstock in Oxfordshire. It's bigger than Buckingham Palace, but it's also privately owned by the family that built it over 300 years ago. It's been the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough since 1704 and was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill
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It's been dubbed the most Instagrammed hotel in the world and we can see why. At certain times of day, giraffes are everywhere with heads popping up on balconies and at the breakfast table, helping themselves to your toast and cornflakes.
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Too good to miss...we've giving one of our favourite episodes another airing. Joanna is one of the world's leading experts on jewellery and one of the leading lights on the BBC Antiques Roadshow.
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We're looking back over a thousand years of action-packed history at Warwick Castle in the heart of Middle England. This medieval fortress, complete with battlements and dungeons, is situated in Shakespeare country, barely a ten-mile drive from Stratford-Upon-Avon.
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This week, we are veering slightly off our normal track to take a look at a food of British origin.
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In Hampshire and Dorset in the south of England, we explore the country's most visited national park. It's a wild and beautiful place where the locals, ponies, cattle and even pigs roam free under obscure common laws that date back to feudal times. We met up with Anthony Climpson who is the boss of the tourist enterprise, Go New Forest.
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Di Luden is Executive Director for the Community Conservation Fund Africa (CCFA) and one of her projects has been to rehome honeybees. The charity has already rehomed over 150 beehives across Mantis eco-estates within the Eastern Cape – creating a habitat for around 11 million bees. The CCFA educates members of local communities about the importance of bees and their critical role in the environment and offers training in the art of beekeeping.
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Oscar Wood of Seenaryo transforms education and equips refugees in Lebanon and Jordan with the tools for the future.
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This week, we're exploring the high octane and sometimes dangerous world of powerboat racing. Daisy Coleman and her brother Sam are the reigning P1 world champions.
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When Claire Copeman married a Welshman, she gave up her marketing job across the border in England and the couple decided to bring the world of adventure to Wales. It all began with mountain biking.
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We decided to celebrate our one year podcast anniversary with a look back at a dozen of our favourite episodes. Of course, there are 55 incredibly varied episodes you can listen to, 56 if you include this one!
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This week we're exploring the extremes of travel as opposed to traditional organised holidays. Unquestionably, Tom Morgan is our most eccentric and daredevil traveller to date.
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He's never happier than when he finds himself astride an elephant in India or paddling a dugout canoe in the South American rainforest, or shooting rapids in the crocodile-infested waters of the Nile.
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Geraldine’s idea of a little light, adrenaline-fuelled recreation is to climb one of Europe's highest peaks and then dive off it in a wing suit at speeds of up to 180 kilometers per hour.
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All you really need is a pair of Speedos, goggles, a hat and the ability to swim a few kilometres in the warm waters of the Mediterranean or the Caribbean or perhaps a rather chilly North Atlantic Ocean.
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The top fashion and reportage photographer and worldwide adventurer started out as a scientist in Africa before switching careers.
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The legendary freeride skier runs his Ski Academy in Verbier in Switzerland and in Cervinia in Italy, where he fixes those parts of your ski technique that you simply can't fix on your own.
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Penny Walker fell in love with the region and emigrated from her native Yorkshire. She now lives in a remote hamlet on the French side of the mountains.
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British rowing star, Frances Houghton's 21-year quest for gold. During an illustrious career, she was four times world champion, picked up three Olympic silver medals and, astonishingly, took part in no less than five Olympic Games.
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Dan’s one of the greatest stars of American extreme skiing, and for the past 30 years he's been jumping off cliffs and making first descents of impossibly steep mountains all over the world.
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This week, we're talking to a remarkable writer, artist, public speaker – a master of the arts at large.
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Tom Kevill-Davies has managed to carve a highly successful career for himself out of his twin passions, cycling and eating.
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Sarah Barrell is Associate Editor of National Geographic Traveller and a regular contributor to BBC Good Food. She reports on her journeys around the world in just about every publication in the UK.
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Language is still a huge obstacle for people deciding to travel. Brenden Kumarasamy, founder of MasterTalk, helps you cross the barrier.
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A summary of our favourite episodes this year.
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Water-To-Go For Clean Drinking Water
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Katja Gaskell has lived in Australia, India and Mexico – with a child born in each country.
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What did Jane Austen and the Roman emperor, Claudius, have in common? The answer is: a love of bathwater.
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This week we’re doing something a bit different. We were guests on Talking Travel with Wendy, a podcast based in Alabama in the USA.
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This week, we're exploring the world of horses with Colin Cameron, who has an intimate knowledge of studs and racecourses across the globe.
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This week we are talking to Dave Shanks, inventor and CEO of a water filter system that eliminates 99.9% of water contaminants, including water-born viruses and bacteria. It's perfect for travelling and to use at home.
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Water-To-Go For Clean Drinking Water
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With the vaccine on the horizon, hopes rise for the ski season.
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Water-To-Go For Clean Drinking Water
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Tom Avery has always been infatuated by snow – be that getting up a mountain, skiing down the other side, driving dog teams through the snow, or using ice axes and crampons to climb up a snowy peak.
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Water-To-Go For Clean Drinking Water
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Where better to be spooked than Wookey Hole in the scenic Mendip Hills in the west of England.
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Wandering around the world and writing for your own publication with no demanding editors apart from yourself...This week we're exploring the solitary world of travel blogging.
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Water-To-Go For Clean Drinking Water
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Today we’re talking global golf. Having covered the game professionally and been around it since childhood, Farhad Heydari explains why it is more than just a game.
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A release of a future movie, Ammonite, based on the life of Mary Anning, will thrust the town into the limelight once again.
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This week, we're talking to Mark Palmer, travel editor of The Daily Mail, the UK's largest print daily with a digital edition that measures its readership around the world in multimillions.
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Peter McLeod's career as an extreme fly fishing expert has taken him from India and the Seychelles to Sudan and Christmas Island in search of fish.
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For all of us, the world has been turned upside down. But one family had already started a new life.
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We want to tell you about some rather special ski courses that we run at the start of each European ski season.
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We visit the world's number one neolithic site.
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Skydiving, mountaineering and saving elephants may seem like strange bedfellows, but not for Holly Budge.
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This week, we're taking a look at the future shape of ski holidays in the uncharted new world in which we now find ourselves. So this winter, will we be wearing face masks and skiing two metres apart?
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Nosa Iyare is an inspirational man who emigrated to the United States and launched his own hugely successful podcast.
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We discover the imposing, residential street that mysteriously claims the fourth most expensive property prices on the planet.
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This week we're talking to top travel writer and editor, Francisca Kellett about her extraordinary career. She describes herself as 'an eco nut and hotel junkie who spends more time than is strictly necessary in Africa.'
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The small and beautiful city of Winchester in Hampshire lies just about one hour from London to the southwest by train and about the same if you're driving.
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Stephanie Hunt has spent the last three decades travelling around the world, skiing, sailing, and her latest exploit: hiking the 2,650-mile length of the west coast of the USA.
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Eurostar has cancelled its service to the French Alps for the winter of 2020/21.
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This week we're talking to a self-confessed British sports fanatic, Rob Bell, a keen marathon runner who took on the ultimate challenge.
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For the past 30 years, travel writer Minty Clinch has ventured on horseback to some of the wildest corners of the world.
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We’re celebrating English eccentricity at its very best and talking to cricket fan and cyclist, Oli Broom, who pedalled his way from London to Australia to watch the Ashes.
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In this episode, we're talking to someone who is the very essence of action packed over the past three decades.
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This week we’re talking to Wendy Payne whose own podcast, Travel with Wendy, is a bit like an American version of Action Packed Travel.
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Jimmy Carroll with his business partner, Geordie Mackay-Lewis, turns your wildest travel dreams into reality, with superyacht voyages to the end of the earth, intrepid journeys to deserts, jungles, polar regions and the oceans.
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Sean Newsom writes mainly for The Sunday Times, travelling the world in summer and winter in search of action and adventure.
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She's been a jewellery expert on the BBC Antiques Road Show for 14 years, as well as pursuing a career as one of the world's leading authorities on jewellery and precious stones like rubies, diamonds and emeralds.
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He's swum, sailed, kayaked and walked across giant swathes of the globe in aid of scientific research or just plain adventure.
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Alice Gully has floated and hiked, scrambled and flitted all over the wonderful continent in search of the best places and the best adventures.
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The former British alpine ski racer had a career change when he became a professional photographer.
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Where do we go from here with international travel? Could it be that trains, not planes, will now take the strain?
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Daredevil adventurer, and expedition leader, Peter Mason, organised the first hot-air balloon flight over Mt Everest.
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Sudi Pigott describes herself as a discerningly greedy, ever-curious journalist writing on food, restaurants and travel.
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This week we're talking to Paul and Linda O'Halloran who cycled 7000 kilometres across Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
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Peter James is the UK's best-selling crime writer. He has written 35 novels including the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series. He skis, plays tennis and is a keen motor racer.
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Arnie Wilson was ski correspondent of the Financial Times, and he knows more about ski resorts around the world than anyone else.
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