The Radio Vagabond

Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Conakry, Guinea. This one was first released in May 2019.

Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Toronto, Canada. This one was first released in December 2017.

Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Rabat, Morocco. This one was first released in January 2019.

Welcome to a special episode of The Radio Vagabond – recorded in May 2022. At a conference for digital nomads called NomadBase Live in Croatia, I met Orest Zub from Ukraine. He's another digital nomad and a big part of the community Nomad Mania founded by our good mutual friend Harry Mitsidis . Orest have been to 129 countries so far in his ten years as a digital nomad. When the Russians invaded h...

Welcome to part 4 of my mini-series about Kenya and The Masai Mara. Click here to go to  part 1 ,  part 2 , and  part 3 . After our exciting hot air balloon trip, I went to the Maassai village in the Mara. This was my last day in the Mara. I spent two nights in  Lenchada Tourist Camp  in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya. And when we were asked if we wanted to go for a visit to a real Maasai vi...

Welcome to part 3 of my mini-series about Kenya and The Masai Mara. Click here to go to part 1 and part 2 . I decided to splurge and go on an early morning hot air balloon safari – very early the morning after New Year's Eve. I wanted to see the beautiful sunrise on the horizon of the savanna with exotic animals below me. So, after our game drive, I spoke to Francis who would arrange pickup for me...

THINGS TO DO IN NAIROBI In the last post, I was talking about Shane and Monica who I met in Nairobi. They both gave us tips on all the amazing stuff there's to see around the country, but there's also a lot to do in the capital. VISIT THE KAREN BLIXEN MUSEUM The museum is located in the town Karen at the Ngong Hills slopes just outside Nairobi. It was owned by Danish author Karen and her Swedish h...

Welcome to this mini-series about Kenya and Masai Mara. This is part 1 On December 31st, I was excited to go to Masai Mara. I went on a 5-hour drive from Nairobi, Kenya, to Masai Mara National Reserve (often referred to just as The Mara). I knew that the game drives would start early in the morning, and I would not be partying too hard for New Year. The two-night/three-day safari trip was partly m...

It's a sad week for the world, Europe, and especially Ukraine – as Russia invaded the country in an unprovoked attack yesterday morning. So, I thought I would share a conversation I had during a walk with Ksenia from UkraineToGo . We walked through the beautiful city of Kyiv when I was there at the very beginning of my journey, in August 2016. This was at a time when Ukraine also was at war with R...

काठमाडौंमा स्वागत छ WELCOME TO KATHMANDU Before going to Nepal, I'd been told that this country has some very friendly people – that show a genuine interest in who you are and where you're from. And that was the case already in the taxi on the way from the airport to the city. In the car with Basu Rimal, he asked a lot about where I was from and what it was like there. He told me that he had been...

¡HOLA BOLIVIA! In this episode, we're going to La Paz in Bolivia. First, we're going over the city in what is called. 'The most spectacular public transport system on the planet' . Then we're going to what is called 'The most dangerous road on the planet'. And then we finish the best way possible by flying on a 1.5 km zipline more than 400 meters above a valley. EXPLORING BOLIVIA I arrived at La P...

Welcome to an interview episode of The Radio Vagabond. We're talking to digital nomad expert Marisa Meddin from Atlanta, USA. I know that you guys listening love to travel and hear about adventures in far-away places. But a lot of you are also interested in the nomadic lifestyle. How is it even possible to sit on a beach somewhere in the world with your laptop and do your work? Well, that's the pi...

In this episode, we travel to Dubai and meet the world at the Expo 2020 Dubai. From cancelled Cruises and great lessons and connections from the travel world. WORLD EXPO DUBAI I am back in Dubai for the Expo 2020 Dubai. My friend Jason spoke warmly about the event, and I was convinced. If you don't remember, Jason is my Couchsurfing host from Connecticut, and he was also the main organizer of the...

In this episode, we have an interesting conversation with a public speaker, stand-up comedian, quizmaster, magician, mind reader, DJ, genius dancer and arguably one of the most entertaining things to come out of Wales since Tom Jones. His name is Eddy Jenkins but on the cruise ship we all know him as "Cruise Director Eddy". Hear how he travelled to nearly 100 countries and what it's like working o...

BONJOU FROM THE CARIBBEAN This week I'm going to take you to three different islands in the Caribbean. We will visit an independent UN nation Saint Lucia, then head over to two autonomous islands that are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. CRUISING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC In August 2021, I explored Saint Lucia through a 12-day cruise with Celebrity Cruiselines. I was still traveling through the...

I met up with my old friend Dave Brett in November, when we were both visiting World Travel Market in London. Dave is a solo adventure travel blogger and we've met several times here and on conferences around the world. We even went on a press trip together to Sri Lanka a few years ago – you might remember him singing on the bus in one of the episodes from there. So, it was about time we sat down...

BIENVENIDO A SAN SALVADOR The first leg of my trip in El Salvador is the capital San Salvador. I take a walking tour and connect with warm Salvadorans, indulging in coffee and pupusa. El Salvador's airport is around 40 minutes from the capital, the biggest city in this incredibly interesting country. I arrive in the country in the afternoon and spend the first night in the airport hotel because I...

3D/BINAURAL AUDIO In parts of this episode, I used a special recording technique. Some call it binaural audio; some spatial audio and I normally just say 3D audio. This technique creates a three-dimensional audio effect that brings out so much more detail and depth than regular stereo (where the sound comes from only left and right). So, put on your headphones and give this episode a listen to get...

A warm hello from sunny Florida, USA. The glorious thing about the CouchSurfing community is that you get to make friends all over the world. In fact, the community is so warm that you also get to meet their friends (and friends of friends), too. When I CouchSurfed through Connecticut I got to know Jason and the ConnectiCouch crew. When I came to Florida, I asked him if they knew of anyone's couch...

Uma recepção calorosa from Rio de Janeiro My first Sunday morning in Rio gave me the quintessential Brazilian experience: chilling on a packed  Copacabana beach  listening to traditional samba music performed by a group of local friends sitting around a breakfast table. It didn't seem like these people were an organised band, and they weren't doing it to make money from tips. I just got the feelin...

SUNRISE ON THE BEACH Welcome to an episode from Sri Lanka. This is a rerun and a mix of two of my episodes from here. I visited the island in 2019, just before the pandemic shot the world (and Sri Lanka) down. Now that everything is slowly opening again, I wanted to remind you of the beauties of this country and its people. As you're joining us in this episode, we're staying at a hotel called  Pig...

Hey from The Big Apple I started my adventure in the Big Apple sitting in a park in Brooklyn on a Saturday morning watching small kids and grown-ups playing football – yes, as a European, this is what I call the game where someone kicks a round ball with their feet.  I'm waiting to meet up with my friend Scott Gurian. Even though we'd never met prior, we do consider each other friends.  Scott is a...

OM SUASTIASTU FROM BALI Before I tell you about drinking the world's most expensive coffee made from beans that have passed through a cat and pooped out, let's kick off this week's episode with an Balinese language lesson. THE RADIO VAGABOND LANGUAGE SCHOOL: BALINESE I always try to learn a few words and phrases when I visit a new place. For today's The Radio Vagabond language school lesson, we'll...

Meet Mark Wolters of the Youtube channel, Wolters World . For 12 years he's been giving us honest travel advice on different places around the world. If you're going somewhere there's a good chance that he's done a few videos from the place.  woltersworld.com facebook.com/woltersworld twitter.com/woltersworld

An ass-slapping hello from Dominica Before we kick off this episode, I have a suggestion: Get your headphones on! 3D AUDIO RECORDING  If you prefer to read about my awesome adventures here on my travel blog rather than listening to my sultry voice in my travel podcast, that's awesome. But...you're kind of missing out on the true Radio Vagabond experience – hear me out... When doing my travel podca...