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Wild About Croatia

2024-12-2034:27

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

Joanna Penn's Pilgrimage

2024-11-1335:27

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

A Ride Across America

2024-10-2336:43

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

Ride Like A Gaucho

2024-09-2935:10

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

Bletchley Park Revisited

2024-08-2722:16

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 Support the show

Loneliness of a Long-Distance Sailor

2024-07-3035:59

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 Support the show

The Whale in the Living Room

2024-06-3025:27

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.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

A Century of Cottar's Safaris

2024-05-2231:36

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. Support the show

The Ultimate Childcare for Skiers

2024-04-2928:59

This week, we're exploring the fraught subject of taking small children skiing for the very first time. We're going to start and end with a warning to listeners: If you want to book a nanny service-inclusive holiday for the coming winter, there is really no time to waste. You need to book right now. Support the show

The Secret Resort of Le Grand-Bornand

2024-03-2423:41

Le Grand-Bornand is not a name like Morzine or Chamonix that trips easily off the tongue when we mention skiing, but it's typically and traditionally French. Support the show

North American Dream in the French Alps

2024-02-0619:36

It's the twentieth anniversary of Arc 1950. The resort began as the idea of Canadian resort developer, Intrawest, creator of Mont-Tremblant in Quebec and manager of some 20 other resorts in North America – from Whistler to Mammoth. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Wild Travels In Africa and Asia

2024-01-0221:07

This week we're talking to someone who specialises in creating holidays that are entirely different – taking you to places you probably thought were out of bounds to all tourists. Support the show

From Fjord to Snowfield

2023-12-0221:42

We caught up with Rory Dixon who organises skiing-touring trips off a boat in Norway and Greenland, life-changing adventures to distant corners of the world.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Jess the Horse Nomad

2023-11-2717:09

Jess Isbrecht is a digital nomad who travels full time with her horses. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

The World's Most Travelled Man

2023-11-0531:51

Harry Mitsidis has travelled to every country in the world, at least twice. He's the founder of a website called NomadMania.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Walking to the South Pole

2023-10-2723:03

To discover a little of what former Royal Marine, Sam Cox, will experience living alone at -30°C, podcaster Peter Hardy spends time in an industrial freezer.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

An American in Paris

2023-09-2833:15

No, not the 1951 movie starring Gene Kelly and Lesley Caron... Jay Swanson moved from the USA and now lives in Paris where he calls himself: 'a YouTuber, writer, and puppy wrangler.' He publishes a guide to the city called Paris in my Pocket.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

The Van Life Revisited

2023-09-0925:43

We're on the road exploring a thriving sector of the travel industry that continues to explode in popularity across Europe. Music © Barney and Izzi Hardy Support the show

Wild Skiing in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan

2023-08-2728:31

Untamed Borders sets out to satisfy the hunger of that rare breed of traveller who's already been to the far corners of the earth, got the T-shirt but still wants more. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Chefs, Cars and Skiing

2023-08-1527:15

This week, we're talking to travel guru, Amin Momen, whose London-based company Momentum Ski organises bespoke holidays. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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