Unravel Travel

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Malcolm and David use their many years of travelling independently to give advice for people without experience of independent travel. We discuss how to identify and manage the risk of this sort of travel and how to plan to get the most out of the trip and how to navigate and mitigate mishaps and the inevitable challenges.  David, discusses the risks of catching L...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Malcolm and David discuss their favourite places to hike in the UK. Hear us talk about the best places to stay, eat and walk. We discuss, waterfalls in Yorkshire and the Yorkshire 3 peaks hike. The differences between the dark and white peaks of the Derbyshire Peak District. The best that Wales has to offer and the Viking Way in Lincolnshire and the seals and birds...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss Malcolm's Winter trip to Iceland. Hear us get to grips with plate tectonics, geophysics, atmospheric phenomena and avant-garde Icelandic art . Whilst avoiding snow blindness, scolding water and fermented fish based meals, sometimes all at the same time. We check out the well traveled Golden Circle route from Reykjavik including Thingvellir National...

Send us Fan Mail In the second part of Overland to India we follow Ollie as he explores Kashmir and does a pre-mobile phone needle in a haystack hunt for Becca in Northern India. We continue to categorise the world by how it takes it's tea, and discuss whether dressing in local clothes is sensible or cultural misappropriation. After flying the last leg of the journey to Singapore, for some ev...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Malc and David are joined by Ollie to talk about his epic overland journey from the UK to India.  This first part focuses on the journey through Europe, Turkey, Syria and down into Lebanon then back up and through Iran before stopping at the Pakistan border. We talk about the journey itself events that happened on the way and the best modes of transport for this so...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of travelling solo or with a buddy. Malcolm discovers an unlikely resemblance to a famous film star and David shares some ideas on how to make a success of a holiday when travelling with a smaller group of friends and how this may change for a larger group.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss Malcolm and David's previous safari experiences, including your traditional guided safari and your less traditional self drive safari. We talk about Malcolm's experiences with malaria and the safety procedures in place for camping while on safari, including how not to keep mosquitoes out of your tent and how to prevent monkeys getting to your f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss David's recent island hopping trip in the Philippines. We will delve into: the activies on the trip, the food, the other people on the trip as well as the Filipino support crew. There is a discussion of toilet facilities both on land and on the boat. And Malcolm reveals a surprising fantasy, although David always suspected as much 😜 The trip was or...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss the wine culture of the Czech Republic (Czechia if you are under 30, Czechoslovakia if you are over 60 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire if you are dead). In particular the South Moravian wine growing region where Malc happens to spend quite a lot of time. We will be talking about the small villages and cellars (sklepy).  What a wine tasting is like, when...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are discussing a necessary evil, estate agents do make a surprise appearance, but the topic is planning. Too much planning stifles the enjoyment and spontaneity. Too little planning, well you would never get out of your front door. We discuss the pros and cons, when to dig deep, when to free wheel. Planning successes, failures and some epic near misses. And then an update...

Send us Fan Mail In this first full and long episode Malc and Dave talk about their Interrailing in the early 90s, spilling the beans on newbie travel and the lowest of low cost travel around Europe.  Talking about the formative effect it had on our future travel lives and the joy of not planning. The episode covers all the major European cultural centres Paris, Florence, Hull, Amsterdam, Venice,...

Send us Fan Mail If you have never done any international or long distance home country travel for business it probably sounds glamorous and interesting; spoiler alert...it really isn't.  It is a pain in the proverbial.  However, there is a way to take the edge off it and that is what we are looking at today. Malc and Dave talk about their experiences of business travel and the bonus experien...

Send us Fan Mail We are old school friends (yes old), we have traveled together often, and separately much more. Whenever we meet we spend out time talking about our travels, with one eye whistful and nostalgic, and the other fresh and experienced.  Add to the mix that we both have a foot in the business of Travel, Dave with his walking holidays and Malc with his AIrBnB hosting, it means we have a...

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode Malc and Dave discuss Winter breaks and escaping the Grey. As is often the case, Malc tends to go on shorter breaks, commonly the Med Islands at the beginning of January or to Central Europe where it is cold crisp and blue.  Whereas David migrates to: India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and now the Philippines, to escape for longer periods. We discuss both, looking at barga...

Send us Fan Mail Well, we were going to talk about Safaris and catch up with Dave after he landed in Cebu.  But as he was right royally messed around by hosts through Booking.com, instead we discuss how it went.  What to do and not to do when your accommodation falls through not once, but twice.  Is once unlucky and twice careless? Will Dave get a refund? Will the world's tiniest violin make...