Action Packed Travel

03/08/2025

Our latest podcast episode, number 162, is all about skiing in Japan - one of our favourite ski destinations https://actionpackedtravel.co.uk/show/japan-the-new-ski-capital/

25/06/2025

Listen to our latest episode with Head Right Out Zoe Langley-Wathen who walked an incredible 630 miles on the South West Coast Path

Podcast Episode · Action Packed Travel · 22/06/2025 · 33m

01/04/2025

Our most recent podcast episode for Action Packed Travel is number 158: Writing Around the World. It's an interview with Jean McNeill, author of Latitudes: Encounters With a Changing Planet. Jean is a Canadian-born writer who is the first-ever female director of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and a professionally qualified safari guide

Podcast Episode · Action Packed Travel · 19/03/2025 · 33m

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