The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

Episode 3 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast is all about staying with locals on your travels and some of the many bonuses that come with meeting local people. It is definitely a different experience to staying in a hotel in the main tourist zone!   I start of this episode chatting with Kerstin Pilz about her many experiences staying with locals, such as the time she went to Cuba accidentally alone and ended up being put up by a whole extended family wherever she travelled. I also chat to Linda and Craig Martin who have used Couchsurfing many times with great success, and made lifelong friends as well as having a roof over their heads. Finally, travel writer Tim Leffel has some good tips about staying out in the suburbs to really get a good feel for a place.   Links:  Workaway https://www.workaway.info Couchsurfing https://www.couchsurfing.com Airbnb https://www.airbnb.com WWOOF http://www.wwoof.net Craig and Linda at Indie Travel Podcast http://indietravelpodcast.com Craig and Linda at Performance Foundary http://performancefoundry.com Travelpilz http://travelpilz.com Tim Leffel http://timleffel.com 5 things my daughter is getting out of living abroad - Tim Leffel https://www.notaballerina.com/2014/11/guest-post-5-things-daughter-getting-living-abroad-whether-likes-not.html Show notes at https://notaballerina.com/03 Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Episode 1 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast! This episode has some great stories about both successes and failures when trying to get something to eat or drink in a country where English is not the first language (and one where it is!). Everybody who’s travelled has struggled with this situation many times, and I got to chat with several travellers who’ve had both fun and frustrations. In this episode, I talk with Linda and Craig Martin about their tricky experience trying to order red wine in Slovakia; Stephen Henson shares a friend’s tale about trying to ask a simple question at a Taco Bell store in China, along with some of his own mishaps (even in other English-speaking countries!); and finally, Kristy Morton and I lament the difficulties she had ordering in a French patisserie as well as the lack of language learning that seems to take place in our home country of Australia. Links: Pizza for Christmas in Japan http://www.notaballerina.com/2011/12/japanese-language-success-for-my.html Craig and Linda at Indie Travel Podcast http://indietravelpodcast.com Craig and Linda at Performance Foundary http://performancefoundry.com Journeys with Stephen http://journeyswithstephen.com Kristy at Loulou Zoo http://loulouzoo.com.au Kristy Morton Consulting http://kristymorton.com Show notes at https://notaballerina.com/01 Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Episode 2 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, it’s all about those times on your travels when you wind up having no idea where you are, or how to get out of there. Getting lost when we travel is all part of the fun - but then sometimes it’s only fun and interesting in retrospect.   In this episode, I start off talking to Leyla of Women on the Road, who has had some truly amazing travel misadventures over the years. Let’s just say that more than one of these incidents involve her being handed a rifle and left to fend for herself!   Later in the episode I talk to the delightful Kiliii Fish, a photographer who has also worked on wilderness and survival expeditions in the past, so is probably the perfect person to talk to about getting lost. He has some tips if you find yourself alone at night in a tall, dark forest … although he didn’t follow all these tips himself.   Links:  Leyla at Women on the Road http://www.women-on-the-road.com Kiliii’s website http://www.kiliii.com/ Kiliii on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kiliiifish/ Show notes at https://notaballerina.com/02  Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the preview episode of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle. Each episode will feature chats with travel writers, photographers, travel bloggers and other travel lovers about topics centred around why we love travelling and what we learn from it. This episode introduces both me and my new podcast, and includes a story of my own about that time I ended up in the Zagreb bus station in the middle of the night … and why it was a turning point. The Thoughtful Travel Podcast launches on 25 March 2016 so make sure you subscribe to catch all the new episodes. You can tweet about it with #thoughtfultravelpod - and tweet me @amandakendle - or comment at the Not A Ballerina Facebook page. I so look forward to talking travel with you all! Links: The Thoughtful Travel Podcast on Not A Ballerina https://www.notaballerina.com/podcast The Zagreb Bus Station https://www.notaballerina.com/2012/09/zagreb-bus-station-croatia.html Not A Ballerina on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NotABallerina Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.