Action Packed Travel

04/03/2025

Latest podcast episode, number 157, is Alice's Journey Through Saudi Arabia. Scottish explorer and Arabist, Alice Morrison, decided to take a long hike to talk to the ordinary people, particularly the women who live there.

Podcast Episode · Action Packed Travel · 28/02/2025 · 31m

06/02/2025

Episode number 156 is an interview with celebrity chef Valentine Warner 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

Podcast Episode · Action Packed Travel · 30/01/2025 · 31m

13/11/2024

On our latest episode - number 154 - we talked about El Camino de Compostella pilgrimage with Joanna Penn. She’s a best-selling and award-winning writer of horror, thrillers, dark fantasy and travel memoirs, and the host of the wonderful The Creative Penn podcast

Podcast Episode · Action Packed Travel · 13/11/2024 · 35m

23/10/2024

In this election year, Simon Parker has cycled across the whole of America, from the northwest coast of Washington state, all the way to the most southeasterly tip of Florida. He's written a book about it called A Ride Across America. See episode 153 of the Action Packed Travel podcast

05/10/2024

New episode is now live:

Podcast Episode · Action Packed Travel · 29/09/2024 · 35m

30/09/2024

New episode is now live! Sophia Ashe talks about her experience working as a gaucho in Argentina

Sophia Ashe, hooked on ponies and horses since childhood, joined a team of gauchos at a ranch in Argentina.

03/08/2024

Our latest episode, number 150, is now live. It's called Loneliness of a Long Distance Sailor. 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. https://actionpackedtravel.com/show/loneliness-of-a-long-distance-sailor/

03/07/2024

New episode now live: no.149 The Whale in the Living Room https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/action-packed-travel/id1502750866?i=1000660721131 - also, for anyone living in Somerset, UK, we are running a travel writing workshop/talk on July 9th. Tickets available on the Frome Festival website. Further info from Frome Writers Collective

29/05/2024

Episode 147 is The Best Childcare for Skiers

25/05/2024

Our latest episode took us to Kenya where we talked to Cottar’s safari camp owner, Calvin Cotter. His family came to Africa from the Great Plains of the Midwest in the years before World War One. https://actionpackedtravel.com/show/a-century-of-cottars-safaris/

26/03/2024

Our latest podcast episode is now live: The Secret Resort of Le Grand-Bornand
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-OyKXWK-zbI

02/01/2024

Episode 144: January is the traditional month in the Northern Hemisphere for organising your summer holiday, and 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 - Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen. Maybe not everyone’s choice. But if this is for you, then James of is your man

02/01/2024

Our latest episode on Action Packed Travel is number 144: Wild Travels in Africa and Asia. January is the traditional month in the Northern Hemisphere for organising your summer holiday, and this week we're talking to someone who specialises in creating holidays that are entirely different – Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen...If this is for you, then James of is your man: https://actionpackedtravel.com/show/wild-travels-in-africa-and-asia/

16/12/2023

07/12/2023

Episode 143: We catch 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

03/12/2023

New episode, number 143, just out:

‎Show Action Packed Travel, Ep From Fjord to Snowfield - 2 Dec 2023

05/11/2023

Episode 141 is now live! Harry Mitsidis of NomadMania has been to every country in the world...at least twice

05/11/2023

Episode 141 is now live! Harry Mitsidis of NomadMania has been to every country in the world...at least twice:

Harry Mitsidis has travelled to every country in the world, at least twice. He's the founder of a of a website called NomadMania.