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Travel Devil – Guilt-free Sustainable Travel for Adventure Seekers

Author: Clara Francken

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Travel Devil is your gateway to a world of sustainable travel, slow travel, and truly meaningful adventures. Hosted by slow tourism advocate Clara Francken, this podcast invites you to rethink the way you move across the planet. In a world dominated by mass tourism and cheap flights, Travel Devil shows how eco travel and responsible tourism can transform not only your trips but your entire travel mindset.


Here, we explore how to travel lighter, deeper, and with intention, whether you're interested in slow tourism, eco-friendly travel, overland travel, or discovering unique travel destinations across Europe and the world. With regular updates touching on Europe travel news and trends in conscious mobility, the show brings you stories that inform, inspire, and challenge the status quo.


Each episode features travellers, adventurers, and experts who share honest experiences about train travel, bikepacking, hitchhiking, thru-hiking, cargo ship travel, family travel, solo travel for women, travelling as a couple, moving abroad, and much more. You’ll hear what it really means to reduce your carbon footprint while staying curious, open-minded, and connected to local communities.


What you can expect from Travel Devil:

  • Practical insights into sustainable travel, eco travel, and slow travel
  • Real conversations about responsible tourism and slow tourism in Europe and beyond
  • Updates and reflections tied to Europe travel news and conscious mobility
  • Tips for travel safety, travel tech, and using smart remote work tools while exploring
  • Inspiration for overland travel, finding cheap train tickets, and travelling on a budget
  • Stories from nomads, expats, long-distance hikers, cyclists, night train travellers, and first-time adventurers
  • Advice on packing lists, packing hacks, and navigating nomad housing
  • Deep dives into local community projects and sustainable initiatives shaping the future of travel


Whether you’re into eco-friendly travel, sustainable travel, slow tourism, overland routes, or simply want to expand your travel mindset, this podcast will help you explore the world in a way that feels good - for you and the planet.


Expect inspiration. Expect laughter. Expect honest stories that make you rethink how you travel.


For more conscious travel content, follow @traveldevil.podcast and @clarafrancken on Instagram.

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Is flying always bad? Should you feel guilty for boarding a plane? And most importantly, what can you actually do if flying is unavoidable? Together, Clara and Lotte explore the reality behind flight emissions, compare flights vs train travel, and explain why aviation has such a large environmental impact, sometimes up to 30 times higher than electric trains. But this episode is not about perfection, it’s about realistic, accessible sustainable travel. You’ll learn: What flight shame really m...
What if you could explore Scotland without flying and experience some of the most beautiful train journeys in Europe? In this episode of Travel Devil, yout host Clara talks to James, also known as The Non-Flying Scotsman, who has been travelling the world without planes for over 10 years. After a frustrating experience with an airline, he made it his mission to prove that you can explore the world by train, ferry, and sleeper trains instead. We dive deep into Scotland’s incredible rail networ...
Thinking about traveling Germany by train in 2026? This is your complete and honest guide to Deutsche Bahn and train travel across Germany. In this episode of Travel Devil, host Clara Francken breaks down everything you need to know: from ICE vs regional trains, booking tickets step-by-step, how to save money, seat reservations, BahnCard discounts, the Deutschlandticket, and even how to get refunds when your train is delayed. Clara lives in Germany for 5+ years and has been traveling across t...
In this solo episode of Travel Devil, host Clara Francken takes you along on her winter steam train adventure through Germany - from snowy train platforms in Saxony to wooden vintage carriages, smoky landscapes, and a behind-the-scenes look inside the locomotive cabin. You’ll hear and see what it feels like to travel on a coal-powered steam train, how these historic trains actually work, and why slow travel experiences like this can make you appreciate modern train travel even more. Clara als...
Train travel is often praised as a sustainable alternative to flying. But if you’ve spent time around train stations, platforms, and tracks, you’ve probably noticed something else: trash. A lot of it. In this episode of Travel Devil, host Clara Francken sits down with Paul Waye, the world’s first professional plogger - someone who runs and picks up litter at the same time. Recorded on location in the Netherlands, this conversation talkes about why public spaces around trains are so polluted, ...
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