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Season 6 – Gap Year: Central Europe Episode 2 Remember those classic fairytales? Cobblestone streets. Medieval buildings. Moats and canals. Bells ringing from the town’s watch tower. All of these things still exist in Bruges, Belgium. Come with Jamin and Hilarie to Burg Square, The Belfry clocktower, the Farmers Market, and the Basilica of the Holy Blood. Hear their thoughts on Belgium’s best choc...

Season 6 – Gap Year: Central Europe Episode 1 Does the French language intimidate you? Same here. But that didn’t keep Jamin and Hilarie from making the most of their time in Paris, France. They’ll get into the full details in this audio podcast – including their reactions to seeing iconic places like the Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, Arc de Triumph, Moulin Rouge, Pont Neuf, Notre Dame, Musée de l'Ora...

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 10 Does your past haunt you? The city of Belfast is haunted by the history of the Titanic. The giant luxury ship was built by 3,000 Harland U Wollf shipbuilders in Belfast, and set sail in April 1912. But to the world’s horror, the ship spent more time under construction than at sea. Only a few days into its first voyage, the Titanic hit an iceberg, sunk and took mo...

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 9 Let’s be honest. Not every vacation unfolds how we’ve imagined it. In this episode of Travel FOMO, Jamin and Hilarie admit that their trip to Dublin was not sunshine and roses. Luck of the Irish? Doesn’t exist. But they powered through and still managed to enjoy a Jameson Distillery tour, lunch in Temple Bar, some hyper-local Guinness and an evening service in St....

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 8 (Full episode) How often to do you go UNDER the streets of the city that you’re visiting? In this episode of the Travel FOMO podcast, Jamin and Hilarie share their experiences from the Real Mary King’s Close tour underground in Edinburgh, Scotland. The eerie underground alleyways hold a dark history dating back to the Black Plague that eliminated half of the popul...

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 7 The Vegas of England…York is hands down one of the biggest party cities in England. And it came as a surprise to Jamin and Hilarie, as they made a whistle stop on their way from Stratford-Upon-Avon to Edinburg. Even during the day, the couple found themselves walking down the lively streets among hen and stag parties in full swing. But Jamin and Hilarie were quick...

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 6 (Full episode) Did you know that you have access to private property across the English countryside? Everyone does! Public footpaths give hikers access through beautiful pastures and small villages. In this episode, Jamin and Hilarie travel down footpaths that take them through several charming communities: Stow-in-the-Wold, Lower Slaughter, Upper Slaughter, and B...

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 5 (Full episode) Are you a theater fanatic? Hilarie is! (Go figure...) But even if you’re not, you’ll still love the history and charm behind Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-Upon-Avon. This small English city has protected and cultivated the history of Shakespeare, who is widely believed to be the greatest writer in the English-speaking world. Not only did he wr...

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 4 (Full episode) Just outside of London, there’s a city that breeds the world’s best authors and most intelligent individuals: Oxford. So Jamin and Hilarie decided to hop off the train for a quick whistle stop, with plans to bottle up some of the brainpower from Oxford University. Come with them as they uncover the natural habitat of writers like J.R.R. Tolkien (aut...

Bath, England: The People Who Saved Their Pub Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 3 (Full episode) https://youtu.be/kHjzKYy3Db8 Would your community come together to save a local business? It happened near Bath, England and it saved a 400 year-old pub. The Packhorse pub opened in the 1600s but had to shut its doors in 2012. The community wouldn’t have it. They launched a “Save the Packhorse” campaign...

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 2 (Full episode) London’s calling, so Jamin and Hilarie answered it. After saving money, selling everything, losing 40 pounds (each) and quitting their jobs, the couple officially kicked off their Gap Year journey on the streets of England’s most popular destination. With some COVID-19 restrictions still in place, they hopped an international plane with only a backp...

What’s the riskiest life change that you’ve considered making? Did you go through with it? In this podcast episode, Jamin and Hilarie tell you about how Travel FOMO led them to the risky decision of taking a gap year. Yes, that’s right. They quit their jobs to travel the world. They also trained for it…literally. In order to make the most of their adventures ahead, the couple set out to lose 40 po...

Season 4 (Beaches): Episode 8 Miles of undeveloped beaches…in America? In this episode, Jamin and Hilarie visit Pensacola Beach, home to Gulf Shores National Seashore and endless white “squeaky” sand. And this time, Maggie Moodle the Goldendoodle came along for the ride. Listen in to hear Maggie’s reaction to riding a boat and seeing a dolphin splash in the ocean. But the real takeaway? This relax...

Season 4 (Beaches): Episode 7 Jamin and Hilarie wrap up their honeymoon adventures in sunny Cozumel, Mexico. Tune in to hear what travel was like before GoPros, when everyone threw a disposable camera in their beach bag. This continues our “Beaches” season, designed to get you through the summer with some beachside stories. “Cozumel: A Day on One of Mexico’s Most Popular Islands” is available wher...

Season 4 (Beaches): Episode 6 What’s your idea of a perfect honeymoon? For Jamin and Hilarie Houghton, it included a secluded beach and swimming with sting rays in the islands of Grand Cayman. This continues our “Beaches” season, designed to get you through the summer with some beachside stories. “Grand Cayman: Do Honeymoons Get Any Better Than This?” is available wherever you listen to podcasts....

Season 4 (Beaches): Episode 5 When you think of Jamaica, you probably hear Bob Marly and steel drums in your head. But for Jamin and Hilarie? They hear wedding bells. Come along for the ride, as they share the story of how their love story first began… This continues our “Beaches” season, designed to get you through the summer with some beachside stories. “Jamaica: Everything was “Irie” on Our Wed...

Season 4 (Beaches), Episode 4 International travel can be expensive. And when traveling as a group, it can be tricky to find a place that’s a good fit for everyone. When Hilarie’s family planned a trip to Mexico, we were excited to find an all-inclusive resort in Riviera Maya that was affordable enough for all of us. This episode is part of our “Beaches” season, available wherever you listen to po...

Season 4 (Beaches), Episode 3 Vacation is fun, but when you’re traveling with your favorite people, it’s even better. We had a blast planning a beach vacation with our friends, Jeremy and Casey Nelson, on the shores of Destin, Florida. Tune in to hear about our adventures renting a boat on the ocean and venturing out to Crab Island. But it wasn’t necessarily a picture-perfect trip…Find out what ha...

Season 4 (Beaches), Episode 2 What if the trip you planned was not the trip that you took? Our trip to Gulf Shores, Alabama changed completely when we invited our friends to join us at the last minute. The end result? A full week of sunshine, laughter, and a lot of memories in the books. Travel FOMO is hosted by a husband and wife duo, Jamin and Hilarie Houghton. Learn more about them at www.trave...

Season 4 (Beaches), Episode 1 Do you like to stay at all-inclusive resorts? The idea of all your food and beverages being included in the cover price is really appealing. But even at the most beautiful resorts, there might be something else more “exotic” on the menu. Tune in to this episode of Travel FOMO to hear Jamin and Hilarie relive a hilarious group vacation to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic...

Season 3 (Secret Season), Episode 9 Have you heard about the pickpocketing in Barcelona, Spain? It’s real. And it’s definitely something that you want to look out for when you travel there. How do we know? Unfortunately…from experience. In this episode of the Travel FOMO podcast, Hilarie and her sister, Jessica, relive the highs and lows of Barcelona – Las Ramblas, the beach, the tapas, and the dr...

Season 3 (Secret Season), Episode 8 Sometimes, you just don’t know how much you’ll love a place. That’s how Hilarie and her sister, Jessica, felt about Switzerland. When they awoke on their overnight train, they were blown away by the views in front of them. Peaceful, natural beauty. But behind its calm and majestic exterior, Switzerland has a wild side – specifically in the city of Interlaken. Tr...

Season 3 (Secret Season), Episode 7 In this episode of the “Secret Season,” Hilarie and Jessica get into a LOT of drama in Italy. The first night they arrived to Rome, Hilarie got food poisoning from a restaurant. And after a long day in Florence, they made a mad dash to the hostel outside the city – only to find they had missed curfew and been locked out of their hostel. You might be surprised to...

Season 3 (Secret Season), Episode 6 Do you love movie musicals? Then you might be a fan of “The Sound of Music,” filmed in Salzburg, Austria. The movie is inspired by the life of Maria von Trapp, a nun and baroness turned wife and mother. While backpacking Europe with her sister in 2005, Hilarie eagerly signed up for a tour of “The Sound of Music” film locations. But with only one day in the city,...

Season 3 (Secret Season), Episode 5 When you imagine traveling to Germany, you might expect to find lively beer gardens, traditional Bavarian attire, and a plethora of World War II history. So imagine their surprise, when Hilarie and her sister arrive to the English Gardens in Munich to find skilled surfers in the city river and a relaxed sunbathers on a nude beach. From Berlin to Munich, the girl...