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Action Packed Travel

Felice and Peter Hardy

Welcome to Action Packed Travel! Our podcast features amazing travel stories...without having to go anywhere. The episodes are interviews with people who"ve been inspired by their adventures. They"re also full of information and useful links, all of which you can find on our Show Notes. Our podcast can be used for future travel ideas and plans for the days when we can explore the world again! About us: we"re Felice & Peter Hardy and we"ve spent half a lifetime travelling to just about every

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30:14

Minty Clinch: Age is No Barrier to Adventure

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2025/11/13

Minty Clinch, who died this month, was a good friend of ours for more years than we can remember. She was a fine writer and witty to the very end. We have decided to re-release an interview we did with her five years ago. The episode is about her adventures on horseback to some of the wildest corners of the world. To Minty's many friends: we hope you enjoy listening. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy.

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32:17

Cycling From Antarctic To Arctic

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2025/10/31

We're giving this episode another airing. It's what might best be described as a rather long bike ride. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy

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26:17

The Ski Tour Operator Revolution

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2025/09/15

One of the first tour operators to give away the company to their staff. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy

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20:50

Final Battle of the Countryside

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2025/08/14

Because this means so much to us, we've repeated the episode! The Somerset town of Frome has seen many battles in its history, from the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 to a campaign to win Packsaddle Community Fields in 2025. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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41:54

Is Japan The New Ski Capital?

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2025/07/30

This week we're talking to Jay Stevens, CEO of Wayfairer Travel, whose passion is snowboarding in Japan.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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33:28

Midlifing on the South West Coast Path

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2025/06/22

Zoe Langley-Wathen walked 630 miles around the coastline of Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset – and then she wrote a book about it. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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20:50

Battle of the Countryside

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2025/05/11

The Somerset town of Frome has seen many battles in its history, from the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 to a campaign to win Packsaddle Community Fields in 2025. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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45:42

Walking Across Africa

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2025/04/28

Forty years ago, Patrick Nash took a ten-month walk through the heart of Africa. We talked to him about the journey that inspired his latest book, Shots Across the Water. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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33:27

Writing Around The World

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2025/03/19

Jean McNeill, author of Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet, is an award-winning Canadian-born writer, the first-ever female director of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and a professionally qualified safari guide. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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30:34

Alice's Journey through Saudi Arabia

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2025/02/28

Scottish explorer and Arabist Alice Morrison decided to take a long hike to talk to the ordinary people, particularly the women who live there. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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30:36

Valentine Warner’s Wild Kitchen

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2025/01/30

Valentine Warner is a celebrity chef who’s made no less nine TV series, and has written five books. He likes to cook in remote and beautiful corners of the world. His new venture, Kitchen in the Wild, is set in a private safari lodge with views of Mount Kenya. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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34:27

Wild About Croatia

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2024/12/20

Travel writer and author of My Family and Other Enemies, Mary Novakovich, explores her homeland, including the hinterland of Croatia most foreigners never visit. Music: © Barney and Izzi Hardy

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35:27

Joanna Penn's Pilgrimage

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2024/11/13

Author, podcaster, and creative entrepreneur Joanna Penn is a best-selling and award-winning writer of horror, thrillers, dark fantasy and travel memoirs. She's also taken up going on pilgrimages.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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36:43

A Ride Across America

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2024/10/23

Simon Parker has cycled in this election year across the whole of America, from the northwest coast of Washington state, all the way to the most south easterly tip of Florida. He's written a book about it. Music: Barney & Izzi HardySupport the show

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35:10

Ride Like A Gaucho

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2024/09/29

Sophia Ashe, hooked on ponies and horses since childhood, joined a team of gauchos at a ranch in Argentina and wrote a book about her experiences. Music: © Barney & Izzi HardySupport the show

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22:16

Bletchley Park Revisited

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2024/08/27

Send us a Text Message.Bletchley Park is a country mansion 35 minutes by train northwest of London, where Alan Turing and his team of cryptanalysts cracked the complicated codes of the German Enigma machine. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy

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35:59

Loneliness of a Long-Distance Sailor

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2024/07/30

Send us a Text Message.How do you survive on your own for days on end? So far, seven women have completed the Vendée Globe, the toughest round-the-world race. Joan Mulloy, a brand ambassador for Helly Hansen and a mother of two from the west coast of Ireland, is determined to become the eighth woman to compete and the first to win it. Music: © Barney & Izzy Hardy

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25:27

The Whale in the Living Room

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2024/06/30

Veteran underwater cameraman, John Ruthven, talks to us about his book and a lifetime of exploring the deep. He is also a producer of Sir David Attenborough's The Blue Planet, a zoologist, film director, writer, editor and stylist.

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31:36

A Century of Cottar's Safaris

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2024/05/22

This week we're in Kenya talking to safari camp owner, Calvin Cotter, whose family came here from the Great Plains of the Midwest in the years before World War One.

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28:59

The Ultimate Childcare for Skiers

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2024/04/29

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