You should have been there

Which famous site has come out top in our twitter poll?  Will it be a wonder of nature or an attraction created by us humans?   We also discuss Robert Louis Stevenson's book: Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes The musical fanfare,  The Curtain Rises, was composed by Kevin Macleod (incompetcech.com)  

Simon and I exchange ways of keeping the flame of travel alive, without going anywhere. Expect entertaining books, silly games and a brief appearance from the president of The AA, Edmund King.  The book "Journey round my room" is available, free, at gutenberg.org. 

Travel and tourism will be transformed. Will our attitudes have to change too? 

We ponder the future direction of travel and suggest some ways of combatting cabin fever.

Simon and Mick make  a few personal confessions and reveal some of travel's great fakes and fakers.  They award the title of the greatest travel impostor to Georges Psalmanazar (not his real name), native of Formosa (well, not exactly) who hoodwinked  London society in the eighteenth century. 

All about the world's bays: the most beautiful, the saddest and those that have left their mark on history.  Some, like Montenegro's Bay of Kotor even have their own islands.   

Discover the five mysterious and intriguing countries of Central Asia with names that all end in  ........ stan. 

Simon Calder and Mick Webb share views on working as travel writers- the rewards, the challenges and how to do it well.

The Great Green Wall,  electric planes, vacuum trains....   Simon Calder and Mick Webb look forward to the next decade of travel and what it might bring.  Electronic music is from the track "Hallon"  by Christian Bjoerklund on the album Skapmat. 

Every road, like every picture, has a story to tell. The A23, on its route between London and Brighton, has seen some of the best and worst of travel. Mick Webb and Simon Calder uncover tales of highwaymen, princely misdemeanours and old crocks (cars not them). They are joined by Rachel Birch and Beverley Keech