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Lovelly Travels

Emma Lovell, Darius Schnaare

With a mission to visit every UN recognised country in the world, Emma "Lovelly" Lovell invites you to join her on the journey. Talking about all things travel and adventure, Lovelly Travels will include interviews with fellow travellers and interesting locals, feature travel businesses and many a tale from the road. Joined by her co-pilot, Darius, Emma will document the mission to visit 195 countries while also raising awareness for mental health. Whether you"re a voyager or a voyeur, you"re

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#27 - How Emma eloped to Mexico!

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/10/20

Sneaky squirrels Emma and Mathew planned their secret wedding in just three months and had the best day, and trip, of their lives in February 2020. Here was their announcement: "At 9 am on the 29th of February 2020, standing by a cenote in the jungles of Tulum, Mexico, we said, “I do”. In an intimate ceremony in a place that means so much to us, we promised to love and support each other for the rest of our lives. We are beyond happy! After that, we enjoyed a mini-honeymoon in gorgeous Belize

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#26 - Amanda Kendle - The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/10/13

Amanda Kendle is a leader in the Australian Travel Podcast scene. When Emma started to connect with Amanda through the Australian Podcasters Collaborative, the pair hit it off instantly and sharing their love of passion and chatting, an episode was formed. Amanda is a travel podcaster and blogger who's obsessed with the benefits travelling can give us (and the world). She has run The Thoughtful Travel Podcast since 2016 and published her travel blog Not A Ballerina since 2005. Amanda has

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#25 - New Zealand

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/10/06

Fond memories and lots of laughs ensued with this episode about our nearest foreign neighbour, New Zealand! Emma and Darius share their memories from a number of trips to the stunning island nation. We talk about giggling at funny words and phrases, and then having the Kiwis (New Zealand locals) having a good crack back at us Aussies! We give each other a hard time, but we really love our buddies across the Tasman. We praise New Zealand's culture and the wonderful incorporation of the Maori

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#24 - A real life farmer's wife

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/09/29

When we got our first listener email, we were ecstatic! The fact that it was from a mutual friend of Darius and I was even better and we decided we must have her on the show!! Meet Millie! Millie grew up in Sydney and at age 18 drove nearly halfway across Australia to work for a man she had never met, riding racehorses in Kaniva, Victoria. After 12 months, she returned to Sydney to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts / Bachelor of Arts at COFA / UNSW. Her heart never left the country and 15 years

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#23 - Living the island life in Ibiza

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/09/22

Have you ever dreamed of moving to a stunning island in the Mediterranean and setting up a whole new life? Well Annemarie Duperouzel did just that! This talented chef started out with a small dream of a sushi outlet in Ibiza, and now after 8 years manages a catering company called The Ibiza Kitchen. Catering for private parties, shoots, retreats, family clients and more. ❤️ Originally from the UK, Annemarie met Emma while doing promo work in Australia. She and her partner were on a big world wide

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#22 - USA

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/09/15

Well it's pretty clear what this episode is about! Welcome ya'll to the United States of America. This was a tough one to do. There are 52 states! Emma has been 14 times to 11 states. Darius has been 3 times to 4 different states. There's A LOT to cover. So this episode, we briefly cover all of our visits to the US. Darius fondly remembers (well through the help of photos) eating his first birthday cake in San Francisco. While Emma recounts her many visits to see Cuzzy Bill in Illinois and

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#21 - Magical Cuzzy Bill from USA

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/09/08

A very close one to Emma's heart! This is the first episode where she welcomes a family member onto the podcast! William Hunter, aka Bill "Magic 500" Hunter is Emma's first cousin twice removed, more fondly known as "Cuzzy Bill". Cuz at the time of the recording was 97 years old! But his memory is as fresh as a daisy and he shares many wonderful stories from his time in the Navy during World War II, living through the Great Depression, and performing magic at the Indy 500 for more than 50

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#20 - Podcaster and Traveller, Gail Lovelace Menasco

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/09/01

Gail Lovelace Menasco, Producer and Host of Experiences You Should Have Podcast, has always been an adventurer at heart. She learned to SCUBA dive at 16 and went on her first shark diving trip as a teenager (behind her mother's back), and never stopped diving. When she was 20, she fell into the world of skydiving and became an avid skydiver for years and jumped out of various types of aircraft around the US until settling down with a family. Now she and her husband dive in remote places around the

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#19 - Kate Toon - Podcaster Extraordinaire

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/08/24

We're not going to lie, this was an exciting one! Kate Toon is a rock star podcaster and a super cool entrepreneur so it was a privilege to have her come and join us so early on in the Lovelly Travels podcast journey. Emma and Kate talk about travel, of course! A big change from the many things that Kate is usually talking about with her business related podcasts but she loves travel and is an excellent story teller, so this is a fun one. Originally from the UK, Kate now calls Australia home and

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#18 - Japan

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/08/17

Konnichi wa! Watashi wa Emma des. Welcome to our Japan episode! Darius and Emma have both visited the beautiful country of Japan and they share their adventures. They also discuss the love of Japanese culture, especially food, that's spread around the world! Sushi is a staple snack food in many countries now and Japanese restaurants continue to rise in popularity. They remember their trips, learning Japanese in high school and Emma shares a random (slightly related) story about how she ended up

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#17 - The Gold Coast!

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/08/11

Emma posts A LOT about the Gold Coast over on Lovelly Travels and so we thought we really needed an episode about her home town in Queensland, Australia. Beaches that stretch for kilometres, a famous skyline and theme parks. That's what Australia's #1 tourist destination is known for. But there is so much more to enjoy and explore. Emma gives us her local insights. From the hinterland to the must-eats for brunch, you'll get the top tips on how to enjoy all that this beautiful destination has to

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#16 - Talking Frankly with Alison Hallworth

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/08/04

This week we're talking frankly with Alison Hallworth! Yes, this is an excellent play on words because Alison's brilliant blog is called ... Talking Frankly! She writes about everything from housework to human rights and it's how Emma and Alison met. Both these ladies are bloggers and were invited to be World Vision Australia blog ambassadors. Both went on to travel with the organisation to Uganda and India respectively. They are connected through a passion for giving back and raising awareness for

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#15 - Spain with local, Pedro

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/07/28

Hola! Bienvenido a Espania. Don't worry, we won't do the whole episode in Spanish! But this week are off to beautiful Spain. And we're so excited to have our first non-host local on the show. Talking about Spain with a Spanish person who is currently ... in Spain. Welcome Pedro! Emma met Pedro in 2009 in Mexico while they were both on University exchange. They were actually roomies and travelled together quite a lot around Mexico. In 2014, Emma went to visit Pedro in Vilafranca del Penedes

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#14 - Covid-19 Chat Teaser

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/07/24

It's no secret that we are in the midst of a pandemic. It's July 2020 and this has been impacting the world for 6 months, but more intensely for 4 months. We launched this podcast in May 2020, during the time of Coronavirus, and while we didn't want to open with that, it's definitely come up in some of the chats. At the start of April, Emma did a bunch of interviews with people from around the world about what they were experiencing in their local area as an effect of Covid-19. But she didn't

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# 13 - Grace Arach, Not for Profit Founder

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/07/21

Grace Arach shares with Emma her story of hope. Originally from Uganda and now living in Australia, Grace is a social worker who has also started a foundation to support people who have been through a similar experience to her own. Emma and Grace met through World Vision Australia when Grace was touring with "A Night of Hope" sharing her story of being a former child soldier in the Lord's Resistance Army. Bedo Ki Gen, Grace's Not For Profit Organisation, has been established to pick up where

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#12 - The Netherlands

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/07/14

This week Emma and Darius take us off to the land of the Dutch, where windmills are a plenty and cycling is ... everywhere, The Netherlands. Emma's first trip to The Netherlands (Country #39/ 195) was in 2013, hosted by Darius! it's an easy train ride from Dusseldorf where Darius lives in Germany and the two had a whirlwind of a trip exploring Amsterdam and sampling the Dutch culture - including the delicious delights of Febo! Hear about Emma's return visit to see her dear friend Betsy, aged 83

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#11 - Danielle Colley on Mt Kilimanjaro

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/07/06

Danielle Colley lives an adventurous life. She takes her positive outlook and applies it to all that she does, and she's not afraid of a challenge. So when Emma heard that she'd trekked Mt Kilimanjaro for charity in 2017, she knew there was a podcast episode right there. Emma also trekked the tallest freestanding mountain, 5895m, in Tanzania in 2011 while raising funds for a charity. The two women however have very different feelings about doing it ever again! Hear as they banter and share their

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#10 - The United Kingdom

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/06/29

Did you know that Emma is a dual citizen? Australian born with English parents, Emma has her heart very much between these two places. Her first visit was at the age of 2 and she's since been another 14 or so times. Although, she's only really been to half the UK having never been to Wales or Northern Ireland. So in this episode, we talk mostly about England with a sprinkle of Scotland. For the purpose of Emma's mission, we are counting this as 1 tick for the UK, as it's UN recognised and 3/195 on

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#9 - Elena Gabrielle and Story Party Tour of the World

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/06/22

People tell Emma that she travels a lot! Well, they clearly haven't met Elena Gabrielle. She is currently on a small pause due to the pandemic, but otherwise, she's touring the world with the international comedy dating show “Story Party - True Dating Stories told live”. They performed over 330 times in 65 countries in 2018 alone. Check out www.facebook.com/storypartytour for more details. Trained in Musical Theatre at Australia's prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) Elena is an

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#8 - Epic European Roadtrip

Lovelly Travels ·

2020/06/16

Can you visit 4 countries in 4 days? Sure you can! Emma and Darius set out on a mission in November 2019 to visit this row of countries in Europe to prove a point - it can be done. As Emma's on a mission to visit all 195 UN recognised countries, she's trying to get as much bang for her buck! But they got more than they bargained for ... this podcast was born out of that very trip! Spectacular shout out to Darius for exceptional editing on this episode to help us relive the roadtrip with recordings

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