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The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle is a show for travel lovers. Each episode is packed with travel stories from fellow travel addicts on topics like using foreign languages, meeting the locals, getting lost and what we learn from our travels.

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35 - Making Friends Through Travel

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2016/11/28

In Episode 35 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast Amanda has a lot of fun chatting about the magic of making friends while you travel. There are so many bonuses of travel they don’t advertise in the brochures and developing friendships with people from all around the world is certainly one of them. Julie Jones joins Amanda to chat about the lifelong friendships she has formed while travelling and they muse on just why it seems easier to make friends when they’re away from home. After Julie,

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34 - Travel and Stereotypes

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2016/11/21

Stereotypes of people by nationality are rife in the world, and come up all the time when we travel. In Episode 34 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, Amanda chats with three people of different nationalities about their experiences with stereotypes on their travels. Jeremy Kloberdanz of The Life Bohemian has an interesting story to tell about an immigrant man he and his wife met while travelling around Italy; a man who wasn’t what he seemed. Lola Akinmade Åkerström, a Nigerian travel

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33 - Volunteer Travel to Help You and the World

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2016/11/14

You might just be able to get the best of both worlds by travelling around the world and helping people by volunteering. It’s not always that simple, but in Episode 33 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast Amanda talks with three guests who have volunteered across several continents with a huge variety of organisations. First up, she chats with Serena Star-Leonard who started off a project to create videos of great projects in a school in the slums in northern Colombia - in a place where most taxi

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32 - On Keeping a Travel Journal

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2016/11/07

Lots of people keep a travel journal when they travel and in episode 32 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, Amanda talks with three guests about their travel diary habits. Chris Christensen of the long-running Amateur Traveler podcast kicks things off by describing the journalling habits he has learnt from his wife, a hardcore travel journal keeper from way back! After Chris, Amandaspeaks with Aggie Lim, who keeps varied travel journals including sketches and all kinds of paraphernalia. Finally, Holly

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31 - How the Internet Has Changed Travel

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2016/10/31

In Episode 31 Amanda is talking about the different ways, both good and bad, that the internet has changed travel - how we plan and book it, how we act when we’re travelling, even how much money we spend on it! Jeff Ryan has a great perspective on this topic having spent 28 years gradually hiking the Appalachian Trail in the US. Over those three decades, he has seen the internet change many aspects of how he travels, and he has fully embraced them. Lola Akinmade-Åkerström has, as

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30 - Lace, Lego and Lola on Travel

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2016/10/24

It's time for another round-figure episode of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, and Amanda is celebrating Episode 30 with a random mix of chats with some of her favourite travellers. What do they have in common? They're all talking about topics which start with L and have four letters! That's good enough for Amanda! First up, she returns to the story of Martin Bailey, who moved to Japan pretty much on a whim 25 years ago to work in a lace factory. This move completely changed the trajectory of this

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29 - Sketching on Your Travels

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2016/10/17

Whether or not you have any artistic talent, Amanda believes that sitting down and doing some sketching on your travels is a great idea, and in Episode 29 she chats with two travellers who do just that (although it must be said that they both have great artistic talent!). Candace Rardon is an amazing artist who has sketched, drawn and painted her way around the world. She chats about the connections you can make if you sit down in a new place to sketch something of the scene around you. Aggie Lim is

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28 - Getting From A to B

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2016/10/10

Getting around on our travels can be fraught with both fun and difficulty. In Episode 28 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast Amanda chats with fellow travellers who’ve had some hairy experiences while getting from A to B, or have had some problems actually finding B! First up, Stephen Henson shares some stories of getting lost in Germany and China. Despite spending a large amount of time in China for work, Stephen still has plenty of moments when getting from A to B is rather tricky. Following

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27 - Are All Aussies Tanned and Tall? Stereotypes of...

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2016/10/03

In Episode 27, Amanda covers a very serious question: Are all Aussies tanned and tall? It’s all about stereotypes of different cultures but especially those of people Amanda's countryfolk -Australians. The first guests are Katie and Jeremy Kloberdanz of The Life Bohemian who have all these delightfully nice things to say about Australians (which gets a big thumbs up from Amanda!) Following on from them, she chats with Tom Parson, the Lego Backpacker, and hear about the stereotypes people are

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26 How to be Bilingual

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2016/09/26

Encountering foreign languages when we travel is both a challenge and a joy - and some of us dream not only of learning a few phrases when we travel, but becoming bilingual. It’s definitely not easy to be bilingual but the guests in this episode of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast show that it’s not impossible, either. Amanda starts bychatting with Leyla of Women on the Road, one of those amazing people who can speak a multitude of languages, and treats coming across a new language as

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25 - How Slow is Slow Travel?

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2016/09/19

So just how slow is slow travel? We can probably all have some kind of similar idea on what slow travel is - being more mindful with how we spend our time travelling, not rushing around to tick off lists of all the sights, and possibly spending longer than usual in one spot - but how slow is slow? Amanda'sguests in this episode all have a different take on how we can travel slowly, and herfirst one is a real champion at it: Jeff Ryan has taken 28 years to hike the Appalachian Trail! Not all at

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24 Wanderlust for Adults Who Didn’t Travel As Kids

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2016/09/12

Lots of people with a deep sense of wanderlustdevelop itby travelling at a young age, but as Amanda chats about in this episode, it's definitely not the only path to developing a love of travel. Today shespeaks with three guests who love to travel now, but never really got to travel much as kids. First up, Amanda speaks with Lisa Luken who grew up on a farm and didn't domuch travelling at all, but who now does amazing road trips with her husband, three kids and theirdog. It's really interesting to

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23 - Foreign Food: From Fishermen to Tarantulas

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2016/09/05

Are you an adventurous eater? The topic of food in foreign countries is always a fascinating one and today’s episode addresses it on a couple of different fronts. To start with, Amanda speaks with Lola Akinmade Åkerström, who has built a fabulous career as a travel writer and photographer. One way she approaches foreign food is to get down to grass roots level which has seen her chatting with farmers and getting up very early to go out with fishermen. The next guest is Martin

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22 - Memorable Travel Moments - Hungry Porcupines and...

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2016/08/29

Recently Amanda has started asking herguests about their craziest travel moments, but really, what she's looking for isthose particularly memorable experiences that stick with you forever - the kind of stories you tell over and over. The three guests in this episode all have fascinating stories to tell of memorable things which happened to them in various spots across the world. First up is Jeff Ryan, author of the new book Appalachian Odyssey: A 28 Year Hike on America’s Trail. Jeff had a

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21 - Pros and Cons of the Internet for Travellers

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2016/08/01

Episode 21 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast is all about the internet. What did we do without it? On the surface, the advent of the internet can surely only be a huge bonus for travellers, right? We can research, book and communicate with so much ease. But as all of today’s guests point out, there are definitely both pros and cons of the internet for travellers. This whole discussion starts when Amanda speakswithLeyla of Women on the Road, asshe reminisces onthe “old school” way

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20 - English Names, Widows and PNG in the 50s

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2016/07/25

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast has reached its 20th episode, and Amanda is celebrating by sharing a collection of special stories herguests have offeredthat haven’t fitinto a particular topic yet, but are far too good not to share. Annalicia Lynn kicks off this episode with some of her fascinating experiences in Taiwan, and in particular some of the more unusual English names chosen by her students. On a completely different tack, Kerstin Pilz talks about two experiences she and her friend had

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19 - Travelling with Kids is Good for Everyone

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2016/07/18

In Episode 19 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast Amanda returns to the topic of travelling with kids - she'son a mission to prove to everyone that taking kids traveling is beneficial both for the kids and the parents. First up, she speaks with Bethaney of Flashpacker Family who has several years of experience of travelling with very young children and is certain it has many benefits for them. She provides a great argument against the people who think that because kids won’t remember their

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18 - Cultural Fusion (and Confusion)

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2016/07/11

Discovering new cultural norms and comparing them to our own is one of the most fascinating parts of travel and the three guests on Episode 18 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast have all given this issue a great deal of thought as well.First up, Annalicia Lynn describes the cultural confusion she felt when she first moved to Taiwan to speak English. The assumptions she made about the culture based on her own experiences back in the States led her to some uncomfortable moments in her early days in

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17 - What Sparks Wanderlust?

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2016/07/04

Where does wanderlust come from? It’s a question that’s intrigued Amandaever since she discovered that some people don’t like travelling, others love it despite their parents never mentioning it, and others still (like Amanda) have been led to a life of travel by their parents’ example. In Episode 17 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast Amanda talks to three travel lovers who have had their wanderlust sparked by very different things. For Bethaney Davies of Flashpacker Family,

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16 - On Grief and Travel

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2016/06/27

Travel is a powerful tool for so many things but one more way that travel can bring great meaning to your life is by helping you to process grief - and that’s what Amanda'stwo guests in this episode have certainly discovered. Episode 16 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast features two women who have found travel to be very therapeutic in dealing with grief. Amanda'sfirst guest is Ava of My Meena Life, an American who has temporarily relocated to Germany, and has travelled extensively throughout

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