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This travel podcast series follows filmmaker Ann-Marie McCormack and her photographer husband Rod Gray on their trip of a lifetime, as they travel across the world.
Having taken a year out from work, following their kids ’almost’ leaving home, Ann-Marie and Rod meet incredible people along the way. Travellers and local people from all cultures share truly inspiring, humorous and human stories. In this ‘warts and all’ series, they also share some top travel tips to show how you can do this too. Travel inspiration is guaranteed!
Having taken a year out from work, following their kids ’almost’ leaving home, Ann-Marie and Rod meet incredible people along the way. Travellers and local people from all cultures share truly inspiring, humorous and human stories. In this ‘warts and all’ series, they also share some top travel tips to show how you can do this too. Travel inspiration is guaranteed!
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Welcome to our travel podcast series, which we recorded while travelling across the world and where we chatted to a diversity of very interesting people with great stories to tell!
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Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Ann-Marie and Rod set off on a trip of a lifetime, having taken a year off work to travel. With their kids no longer at home and parents all doing okay, real life suddenly intervenes in Sicily in an unexpected way...in this warts and all podcast series.
Contributors: Fabrizio Militello, Ruth McCormack, Alison McCormack, Fr Mike O'Sullivan.
Singers: Mya Neiland, Ann-Marie McCormack
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod travel to Railay Beach on a long tail boat from Ao Nang. They head to Chiang Mai with sisters Izzy and Sophie from Bristol and visit so many temples that they get all blinged out!
Contributors: Svente, Izzy Gibbs, Sophie De Payronnet, Pissimone
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod get the shock of a lifetime, while travelling on a slow boat on the Mekong river. Luckily they have time to recover in the beautiful Luang Prebang!
Contributors: Fabio Rosquete, Paula Postfeur, Fanny Luxembouger, Izzy Gibbs, Sophie De Payronnet.
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Following a trip to the Sanctuary on their worst road ever, Ann-Marie & Rod relax for Christmas with sell-it-all Austrians, before Rod gets royally knocked off his throne!
Contributors: Izzy Gibbs, Sophie De Payronnet, Carmen Hofer, Klaus Hofer.
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod meet their first lesbian couple and share a tuk to awesome Angkor Wat and their maddest New Year ever! And Ann-Marie talks to a Cambodian waitress who is already saving for her 1-year old daughter's university fees.
Contributors: Bre Kerr, Faith McConnell, Luca Casamassima, Laura Moioli, Kim Rom.
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Off the most beautiful beach ever, Ann-Marie & Rod fish with very fit Italians, reunite with the Bristol sisters and are guided by a local landmine victim on the silk island.
Contributors: Izzy Gibbs, Sophie De Payronnet, Luca Casamassima, Laura Moioli, Jade Martin, Justin Marais, Vuthy Vuthy.
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
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Contributors / Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack & Rod Gray
Filming, Editor & Graphic: Rod Gray
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
At a hostel Ann-Marie and Rod meet some brave trekkers who share incredible stories of The Te Araroa trail they’re on, walking from New Zealand’s North to South islands. They are wowed by the beauty of travelling through the South Island on a road trip, and feel the heart warming glow of the glow worms.
Contributors: Jude Newton Stock, Trekkers - Arjuna Welsh, Brandon Morrissey & Michael Andrews, Thomas Milenbrook - Glow worms guide
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod meet up with their newly tattooed son Sam, avoid being robbed by monkeys, share really fun times with two naughty boys on the Gili Isles and gain a great insight into life as a businesswoman in Lombok, during their most festive season.
Contributors: Sam McCormack Gray, Egy Madani, Dodi i Pandi, Yofy Satria, Yuli - Yuli’s Homestay owner, Kuta, Lombok, Betty - Ubud receptionist.
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod do a Thai cookery course before reconnecting with their Bristol friends Tegan, Albie and Luke, who has just lost his mother that morning. They chat with a Dutch couple, who sold everything to move to Koh Lanta, about how to run a business in Thailand. On Phi Phi Island, during Songkran - Thai New Year, they talk to two tsunami resilient survivors about their shocking experiences on that fateful day in 2004.
Contributors: Amy Fu, Matt Zoeller, Ciara and Chloe Zoeller, Tegan Everett, Luke Everett, Albie Everett, Johan and Sabine Bogaerts, Beau and Toni - tsunami survivors.
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod face the madness of Manilla airport, where Ann-Marie’s sister Pam misses her connecting flight in a storm. Together they experience the vibrant nightlife and sunsets of El Nido and Rod shipwreck dives for the first time in Coron. But as they relax in the hot springs, Ann-Marie and Rod hear their beloved cat is very ill! In Oslob, they swim with enormous whale sharks and their guide Genil shares her own story of losing three family members during Covid. In Maolboal, Pam finds majestic turtles and they all share fun lake kayaking, swimming through the most awesome underwater reefs and the deepest clearest water between sheer granite cliffs.
Contributors: Pamela McCormack, Sherman Monterde - snorkel boat guide, Genil P. Berggren - whale shark guide.
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Japan is Ann-Marie and Rod’s last stop, before returning to the UK to pick up their much missed son Max from uni, before Ann-Marie’s big birthday bash. In Tokyo, they experience the wonders of a digital arts exhibition, share an extravagant night out with Ann-Marie’s school friend Helen and her generous husband Hiro, sample the surprising female jet-settings of the Japanese toilet and the onsen hot springs in a traditional hotel in Ito. In Kyoto, Ann-Marie and Rod sample the exquisite food and architecture of the Gion district, famous for its geishas, temples and samurai warriors. And ahead of going home, Ann-Marie talks to solo traveller Rosie, about what it’s like to return to the UK after seven months of travelling!
Contributors: Helen Butler, Hiro Hiraiwa, Rosie Hemming, Max McCormack Gray, Carmel O’Doherty, Betty Kennedy, Ann McCormack, Pamela McCormack, Izzy Gibbs, Sophie De Payronnet.
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod explore the wonders of Singapore’s diversity and chat to two musicians about growing up in Singapore’s cultural melting pot. In Koh Samui they feed elephants and get clear warnings about scooter accidents from an injured ex-pat.
Contributors: Sam McCormack Gray, Richie El, Norman Yeo, Svente, Susan Moore, Wayne Moore, Tim Grabow, Adrian Boulton
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod go down under to stay with Rod’s step sister Vicky, who along with her bunch of food foraging friends, travel to Tasmania. They are wowed by the Mona Gallery in Hobart and have so much fun camping on Bruny Island!
Contributors: Vicky Stock, Nikki Atherstone, Adam Newman, Brenton Booth, Lisa Divane, Tash Van Velzen, Ruth Brunt and son Sam, Jude Stock, Peter Dayson, Jean Dayson.
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
Ann-Marie and Rod do a house swap on Phillip Island, famous for its penguins. Rod takes Ann-Marie for big birthday treat - a road trip through Mornington Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road. In Sydney, they meet up with Ann-Marie’s long lost acting friend and vow never to let another 35 years go by!
Contributors: Majella Nolan, Richard Dayson, Michael the motel manager, Lisa - penguin crew.
Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin)
Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack
Sound Mix: Gary McIntyre
Graphic: Rod Gray
Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack, Rod Gray
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