Winging It Travel Podcast

Hello and welcome to number 60! This week I am joined by one half of the Greg and Felicity Adventures as Greg joins me for a chat. We talk about their amazing travel documentaries in Romania, Scotland, Isle of Man, Mexico + Turkey. Greg explains how they stumbled across a great video documentary of their honeymoon in Mexico. He also describes how their latest documentary in Scotland is providing s...

Hello and welcome to a birthday treat from myself. This week I have decided to do an episode swap for the first time and give you a travel story episode from Marie at the Culture Cult Travel Show. The details are below for Marie's show, make sure to check her podcast out, rate it, review it and follow her on all socials. Thanks! Be inspired! Today’s travel stories feature my cousin and guest, Dala...

Hello and welcome to number 59! This week, I am joined by Marie Walker from the Culture Cult Travel Show. We delve into Marie's life in LA as well as her past, where Marie talks about growing up in Alabama and gives us some tips on what to see! Marie talks about her love for Thailand and how much she loves the people there as well as the party scene. We also get to learn a lot about Mexico City an...

Hello and welcome to number 58! This week I am joined by Howard + Stephen from the Whisky 7 Project Podcast. We have a blast this week as Stephen tells us about his encounter with spiders in the Panama jungle, Howard reveals the healing powers of Crater Lake after dislocating his hip on a hike + Howard tells us about Stephen's seven hour hike for beer. You will hear plenty more stories and get to...

Hello and welcome to number 57! This week my good friend Scott comes back on to talk about solo travelling in the Middle East. We cover travelling down the Nile, road tripping + camping in Oman, utilizing the Jordan Pass, discovering the magic of Jerusalem and what visiting to Palestine is really like. Dubai gets a small mention towards the end. An absolute plethora of tips, stories, information a...

Hello and welcome to number 56! This week I am travelling with Emma Thomson who is a multi award-winning travel journalist who most recently was named Travel Writer of the Year in 2019 by the British Guild of Travel Writers and won National Consumer Feature of the Year at 2019 The Travel Media Awards. Emma is a regular contributor to National Geographic Traveller, The Telegraph, The Times and Wand...

Hello and welcome to number 55! This week I am joined by my friends Marisa and Michael who embarked on a year sabbatical trip to cycle through South East Asia + Europe in 2018. We met those guys quite early on in their year in Vietnam and today they are going to share their experiences of that journey. There are so many stories, tips, happy accidents (explained in the episode), highs, lows, reason...

Hello and welcome to number 54! Today I am joined by Ashley Chen and Joni Herison from Druk Asia who are here to talk all things Bhutan! They are also the co-authors of the Bhutan Travelog book and will be telling me everything about this magical place. We get to dissect some facts about the country, when to travel there, the dos and don'ts, best time of year to travel, the best food, the best dri...

Hello and welcome to number 53! Today we have Conor Kelly from the ComebaCK Podcast for the second time. We delve into Conor's life in Vietnam and the life of a teacher in Ho Chi Minh City as well as some of the best bits of travel he has done in Vietnam. Then we talk about Conor's plans to travel in South East Asia to Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore and other areas of interest. Finally, we ta...

Hello and welcome to number 52! This week I am joined by Sophia Zell from the Away She Goes Podcast which is part of the Her Adventures group. Sophia travelled Europe by camper van for six months in 2021 with her dog, Nox. We talk about this epic trip and the highs and lows. We cover Sophia's Interrailing trip from Greece to Spain along the Mediterranean Coast. Then we dive into Sophia's coach tra...

Hello and welcome to number 51! This week Matty Dyas from the Travel Bubble Podcast and the 4th best tour leader in the world with Intrepid Travel talks about his travel history to date. We discuss Matty living in Haiti for 6 months, how he has completed 17 ultramarathons, the dream of living in Bangkok for 3 years, his jobs teaching English in Spain and Slovakia and details of one of the most uni...

Hello and welcome to number 50! To celebrate this milestone, Mark Tisshaw, a well known journalist in the car industry and a friend of mine for 20+ years joins me to talk about some of our epic trips. We concentrate on three big trips which have a sporting twinge to them. We talk about our first long haul trip to Australia to watch The Ashes in 2010/11. Then we move on to our road trip from London...

Welcome to number 49! Today Karizza and Linh join me to talk about their own individual experiences of migrating from their country of birth to Canada. Karizza talks about the differences between the Philippines and Canada. Then Link talks about the differences between Vietnam and Canada. They talk about their challenges, reasons for moving and how they see themselves settling in Canada going forw...

Hello and welcome to number 48! A solo episode this week as polled on Instagram which voted overwhelmingly in favour of recording a solo episode about my trip to the Yukon, Canada over Christmas. This week, I cover the costs of renting a car, our awesome Airbnb cabin, the logistics of booking this trip in the winter, what we saw, what we did and some great tips. We saw the Northern Lights, went do...

Hello and welcome to number 47! This week I am joined by Meagan + Mike who discuss with me their love for travel and share some of their amazing experiences to date! You will love the passion for travel in this one as they both recall their stories and provide some great travel content. They tell us stories about riding through Vietnam on their motorbikes as well as providing some great tips along...

Welcome to number 46! Today I am joined by Lee Huffman from the We Travel There Podcast and Bald Thoughts blog. Lee talks about the premise of his podcast, what he has learnt about the various cities on his episodes and also some lessons learnt about running a podcast. We also discuss the USA, international travel, how to budget your travel and also some of Lee's favourite places he has travelled....

Welcome to the last episode of 2021! Today special guest and co-host Rachel Fox joins me for the third time to talk over some statistics from my podcast in 2021. We will also cover some lessons learned, some of my favourite quotes, three clips from this year and I will be asked the famous quick fire questions at the end. There will be a stunning confession from Rachel, some great travel tips and o...

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode in time for Christmas 2021! I think it is important to talk about being an expat away from home at Xmas so I have released a small podcast episode to highlight the pros and cons. I hope this can give some comfort to everyone who misses home during this festive period. There will be my experiences in there from Australia, New Zealand and Canada for being away...

Welcome to Episode 43! Today my good friend Adam Bamford (Bambi) brings a friend with him namely Godders so they can talk about their gap year experience in South East Asia. Godders also talks about his time living and working in Australia and gives some great advice. This is a brilliant anecdotal episode where each of us rekindled some memories we had forgotten about. This is the whole point of t...

Welcome to Episode 42! The Cook Islands are re-opening on Jan 13th 2022 so I thought I would share my experience of my trip there in 2018. My partner and I went for two weeks in April/May and had a glorious time! There will be tips of places to visit on Rarotonga as well as Aitutaki. There are some details on the accommodation we stayed at, cafes/restaurants we ate and drank at, stories of nearly...

Hello and welcome to Episode 41! Today I am joined by a couple of backpackers, Emily and Rachel who host the Gap Year Diaries Podcast. They join me in discussing their travel podcast, hilarious anecdotes of their trip in 2010 (which the podcast is based on), chocolate bars, losing passports and some good ole inspiration. This episode was so fun to make and I really think you will love it! Please r...

Welcome to Episode 40 where Dr Angel Iscovich (Dr I) joins me in discussing the relationship between our daily routines and travel. Check out Dr I's book 'The Art of Routine' where he writes about how important routine is to our lives and how it can prolong life with happiness. In this episode we discuss those relationships against travel as well as other aspects of the book. We cover travel bubbl...

Welcome to Episode 39! We have a cracking episode today as Pete from The Travel Wins Podcast joins me to talk about business travel, his podcast guests, stories on how high performing people deal with travel affecting performances and also his personal travel experiences. There is some great content in here for any budding podcasters, people who travel for business and for understanding the value...

Hello and welcome to another episode with Rachel Fox. In this episode we talk about some hilarious travel stories such as Rachel speaking to a horse in Spanish, Rachel shouting the wrong kind of help in Portuguese and the obvious hiking dramas. We also speak about Brazil, Miami, Venice, Greece, Iceland as well as future travel plans. So many funny stories in this, you can not miss out! Contact me...

Welcome to 37! We are carrying on with the travel dream today with my good friend Stuart Howieson. Stuart has lived and worked in the Maldives, Hong Kong and Australia. He has travelled to many parts of Asia, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Europe and Scotland. Today we discuss our trip to India in 2016, living in The Maldives, working in China and Hong Kong as well as the work visa in Australia. Tun...