The World Vegan Travel Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Click here to see all the show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Nicole Derseweh a gutsy vegan solo traveler who has founded The Martha Project a nonprofit that provides plant-based meals and human connection to those without shelter in our local communities.  Now, I just have such wonderful guests on our podcast and you are definitely going to be inspired by Nicole’s...

Send us Fan Mail Click to see the full show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Candy Tolentino who runs some vacation rentals in Salt Lake City and soon also in Bali too. Candy is a dear friend of mine and as you will tell, she has the most wonderful zest for life and a beautiful heart and I know you are just going to love hearing what she has to say. So what will we be talking about? W...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the full  show notes In today’s episode, we’re talking to Eddie Garza, one of the most exciting chefs in the plant-based cooking world. I first met Eddie in a Clubhouse room of our Vegan Travel Club a couple of months ago. As soon as he started talking and I looked at his bio I knew I wanted to talk to him on the podcast. He grew up in the border town of Brownsville...

Send us Fan Mail CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL SHOW NOTES In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Camilla from Vegan Set, an expert in the hospitality industry from Italy. Camilla consults with hotels all around Italy to help them become more vegan-friendly. Camilla has worked with so many hotels around Italy and we are going to be talking about the growth of vegan foods in fine dining restaurants and l...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Chris Tucker from Better with Butta. Chris is a long-term Los Angeles resident who operates a mail-order vegan bakery that sends beautifully created boxes of vegan baked goods all over the US.  In this episode, we are going to be talking about different neighborhoods in LA. We did something a little bit similar...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for full show notes with links and images. In today’s episode, we will be talking to James and Nina from Finca Vegana, the owners of a 100% vegan holiday rental located in Andalusia. They are going to talk about their beautiful vegan holiday cottages, the vegan events they organize, as well as giving some incredible reasons about why you might consider traveling to this...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for full show notes with links and images. In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to two guests! Firstly, we are talking with Tim from Attucks Adams who specializes in giving tours of Washington. Donna Zeigfinger is a vegan travel agent who is from this part of the world and she is also from the Washington DC area and they will be talking to us all about Washington DC. So...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the shownotes Jennifer Hadley is a vegan wildlife photographer and she takes incredible photos of animals. In this episode, we will be talking about wildlife photography, how you can get started, how to take images ethically, and also the reality behind wildlife photography. 🌊 Our Croatia 2027 Vegan Sailing Trip is now open for bookings! Join us as we sail the stun...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Karen Collado. She is the Global Sales Director of Palmaia which is a vegan-friendly resort in Playa del Carmen close to Cancun. You have probably not heard of this vegan heaven. They opened their doors to welcome guests in December 2019 and of course, they closed their doors for much of 2020. They are now open again, and ready to welcome gu...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Nick & Linsey Minnella from Vegvisits.com . Nick and Linsey are a married couple who were until 2016, young professionals working in Wall Street. They decided to quit their job and travel across the US staying at AirBnBs. They decided that while traveling and staying in AirBnBs was kinda cool, wouldn’t it be better if people you stay wit...

Send us Fan Mail Click for the shownotes Lucas is the author of a new book called Weight of Empathy. This travel memoir will tell you what happens when you leave everything and everyone you know behind,  take a one-way flight across the ocean and continue by food, train, bus, rickshaw motorbike, and ferry until you've circled around Earth? That's what Lucas decided to find out in early 2...

Send us Fan Mail We've got something new to share with you today. Instead of an interview, we have some travel tips to share! Do you want some help from your phone to get you organized for your trip or learn about a new destination? Do you need an app for your next vacation that will help you with directions, translate phrases, help you enjoy your time by exploring more and with greater ease,...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Clare Mann from The Vegan Psychologist and we are going to be talking not only about the benefits that travel can be to our mental health, but of course how travel can trigger our Vystopia. Now, if you have never heard of the term Vystopia before, then I am so excited for you. I talk about how learning about Vystopia had such a profound impa...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Lauren Lasko. Together with her husband Ryuji, she founded For Animals Japan, an organization that brings vegans together through street outreaches that hopefully inspire others to go vegan. She also happens to be the Happy Cow ambassador for Yokohama as well. Lauren has lived in Japan for many years now and we touch on how that came to pass...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Sam who along with her partner Veren are the couple behind the blog Alternative Travelers and also more recently the Alternative Travelers podcast. They have been one of the big vegan travel bloggers who have created some of the best vegan travel city guides out there especially in Spain, a place they spent a lot of time. I actually intervie...

Send us Fan Mail Click here to see the show notes. In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. I am sure most regular listeners know about my relationship with CPG. We’ve known each other for more than 10 years and she is actually a partner of ours. We have run about 6 different trips together where we take members of her audience to some incredible destinations including one...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Dana from the YouTube channel Wild We Roam and discussing how creativity and travel are connected as well as learning about her inspiring travel story. If you don’t know Dana and the Wild We Roam Youtube channel , you absolutely need to check them out, and if you don’t believe me, then I am prepared to bet good money that at the end of this...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the full show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Kim Giovacco. She owns a small group travel company called Veg Jaunts and Journeys.  She runs vegan small group tours (like us) and she is going to be talking about the pros and cons of group travel. If you ever shrugged off the idea of participating in a group tour, then this episode is for you. We might b...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for all the show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Anne-Lise. Anne-Lise is a tour guide that we met for the first time a couple of years ago. We hired her for a couple of days when we were putting the finishing touches on our Dordogne trip. We wanted to speak to someone to just talk through the trip and make sure that all the calculations that we had made re...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the full show notes. In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Kristin Lajeunesse. Kristin was perhaps one of the first vegan travel bloggers, or at least the first one that I had ever heard of. Back in 2011, she decided to undertake the rather daunting but delicious task of visiting every single vegan restaurant in the US while living in a van. She will be talking ab...

Send us Fan Mail Click to see the full show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Eunice Reyes from Rated V Food. She has a beautiful YouTube channel and she is talking to us from beautiful Valencia in Spain! Eunice is a self-confessed vegan foodie and is passionate about sharing the amazing vegan food from around the world and she wants to be your tour guide. While she could talk a lot ab...

Send us Fan Mail TAP FOR THE WHOLE SHOWNOTES In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Andrew Flatt, the marketing manager from Desert and Delta Safaris, a luxury camp operator in Botswana. We’re speaking to Andrew because we will be staying at two different camps during our Botswana trips which are happening in December 2021. While we still have some spots on our Botswana trips and of course we hop...

Send us Fan Mail Click here to see the full show notes! In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Tess Challis . Tess has written 8 vegan cookbooks and is also a life and business coach with a particular focus on mindset, limiting beliefs, and mindfulness. She also has a beautiful blog with tons of wonderfully healthy recipes which makes her the perfect person to talk to on this topic: healthy habit...

Send us Fan Mail Click here for the full show notes In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Wendy from the popular vegan travel blog, The Nomadic Vegan . We have actually had Wendy on the show before when we talked about her epic train ride through Russia which I will link in the show notes, but I always love talking to Wendy and I think you might really enjoy this episode, especially at this part...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Cassandra Brooklyn, a travel writer, guidebook author, travel advisor, and international group tour leader. Her tour company Escaping NY, specializes in small group adventures to Cuba as well as other destinations in Latin America and interestingly Jordan too. If you go on to Cass’s site or look in the show notes, you will see links to these...