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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. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy

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.    Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy

Alice Gully of Aardvark Safaris takes a journey back in time to São Tomé and Príncipe.   Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy

This week we're in Val d'Isère in the French Alps, exploring the complicated subject of ski and boot rental. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy

Dick's Tea Bar in Val d'Isère once captured the imagination of generations of visitors.  Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy    

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. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

This week we're talking to Jay Stevens, CEO of Wayfairer Travel, whose passion is snowboarding in Japan. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

Zoe Langley-Wathen walked 630 miles around the coastline of Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset – and then she wrote a book about it.  Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

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. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

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. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

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. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

Scottish explorer and Arabist Alice Morrison decided to take a long hike to talk to the ordinary people, particularly the women who live there. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy   Support the show

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.   Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

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 Support the show

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  Support the show

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 Support the show

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.  Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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.  Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

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 Mulloy, 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.  Music: © Barney & Izzy Hardy  Support the show

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. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy  Support the show

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.  Support the show