Hi from Let’s travel!. We hope you’re all safe out there. This month we’re reprising our show on New Hope, PA including the story about the famed Simeone racing car collection. If we can’t all travel in person, at least we can travel virtually with Susi and Patrice. Join Susi Raphael and Patrice Samara as they explore “The New” New Hope, PA, including the Ghost Light Inn, Stella by Jose Garces Restaurant, the Bucks County Playhouse, and the Ferry Market. Then they visit the Simeone Foundation Au...
May 05, 2020•44 min•Season 2020Ep. 5
March showcase celebrates IRELAND & GALWAY, the European Union’s selection for 2020 as the Capital City of Culture. Join us as we discover what the country has to offer travellers of all sorts in 2020 along with GALWAY, a unique destination and this year’s international site for nearly 2000 cultural events and programs. Bill Condon Bill Condon is Vice President for Marketing & Product Development for the Irish Tourist Board in New York. He’s a 35+ year veteran in Tour & Travel, and p...
May 05, 2020•50 min•Season 2020Ep. 3
Join Susi Raphael and Patrice Samara as they explore “The New” New Hope, PA, including the Ghost Light Inn, Stella by Jose Garces Restaurant, the Bucks County Playhouse, and the Ferry Market. Then they visit the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, Voted #1 Car Collection in the World and interview Dr. Fred Simeone, the museum’s founder!
May 05, 2020•44 min•Season 2020Ep. 1
Today’s guest included Frederic Sund, GM of Smorgas Chef restaurants in NYC, Pablo Cid, Wines from Spain, Alice Loubaton, Trade & Marketing Relations Manager, Sopexa, Jigi Mathew, Dir. of Operations, Aligael’s On Broadway, and Marc Bauer, Master Chef, The International Culinary Center. The Holiday Table celebrated the classic cuisine and wine selections from France, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, and traditional Jewish and Kosher dishes from the U.S. and abroad.
Dec 01, 2019•57 min•Season 2019Ep. 12
Portugal gets the nod for Fall travel from the U.S. and the price is right. Take TAP’s Premium Economy Premium class daily anywhere from 5 U.S. cities; NY-Newark-Boston, D.C.and Miami on their new A 330 neo wide-bodies to Lisbon or Porto, perhaps the hottest city on our itinerary in less than seven hours. Our travels by car took us to: Lisbon, the country’s capital, next to Óbido, a charming, flower-filled town, one-hour away on the A-8 superhighway, on to Coimbra, home to Portugal’s largest uni...
Nov 01, 2019•51 min•Season 2019Ep. 11
Our Sept. showcase, DISCOVER AFRICA, features leading authorities on the Arts, Tour & Travel, Food, Fashion, and World heritage sites. Africa is the world’s 2nd largest continent after Asia, and 2nd in total population after China. It is made up of 54 countries, with 125,000-3000 languages and dialects. It holds the world’s largest the river-the Nile, the largest desert, the Sahara, and the highest waterfalls, Victoria Falls. You’ll find the world’s fastest land animals here with over 1100 s...
Sep 11, 2019•58 min•Season 2019Ep. 9
We’re producing a full hour on a remote part of NYS celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founders’ company, Fleischmanns, in Fleischmanns, New York. Located in Delaware County in the Western Catskills, the town is enjoying a renaissance of sorts by virtue of its cultural heritage, history, landscape, historical sites and architecture and by the many individuals of note who have lived there, visited there or simply traveled through. It’s the town made famous by its most famous individual and ...
Jul 01, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 2019Ep. 7
On this edition of Let’s Travel! Susi travels to Brooklyn for a music-theatre piece, “More Or Less I Am” by the theatrical troupe Company de’ Columbaria. This work celebrates the 200th Anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth and is adapted from Whitman’s first major work, Song of Myself. Then it’s on to Turkey and an interview with Mehmet Kilic, President, Journalists and Writers Foundation to discuss his organization and the many wonders of the country. Enjoy!
Jun 01, 2019•50 min•Season 2019Ep. 6
Our May showcase: Discover NEPAL is presented by leaders of the Nepalese community in the U.S. and headed up by the Consul General in New York, Pushpa Raj. The emphasis is on NEPAL as a destination for Tour & Travel and the magical kingdom he represents in his region of the Himalayas, now accessible by a plethora of major carriers from the U.S., Europe and Asia. The photography is amazing. Pushpa Raj Bhattarai : www.nepalconsulate.gov.np Nepal’s Consul General in New York, since 2016 for the...
May 01, 2019•59 min•Season 2019Ep. 5
Music is a universal language which shapes our lives in myriad ways. On April’s Let’s Travel! Radio show Susi explores the psychology and neuroscience of music to find out why it evokes such strong emotions. The show also features some live music to get everyone in the audience off their feet and moving to the rhythm. Enjoy! Please note: This show was originally recorded in April 2016.
Apr 01, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 2019Ep. 4
The March showcase is titled: WINES of FRANCE , aft of our journey last October where we covered the major wine producing regions of France over a 12 day period. To note, France was the second leading producer in the world in 2018 with 1,225 million gallons, or 16% of the world’s total output on 787 mill. hectares ( 2.4 acres ), only one percentage point behind Italy with 17%. The average French wine consumer, however, recorded 18 gallons per in 2018, would you believe?
Mar 01, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 2019Ep. 2
Let’s Travel Radio Correspondent Patrice Samara interviews Eva Ritvo, MD, Author of Bekindr: The Transformative Power of Kindness in the Let’s Travel Radio studio in NYC . Dr. Ritvo talks about her new book and gives us insights on how being kinder can enhance your travel journey. On “Road Trip to Texas,” Correspondent Patrice Samara and Dr. Ritvo take a road trip to Texas to see a unique exhibition called the Bold Beauty Project. They were welcomed with Texas hospitality and devoured a down-hom...
Feb 01, 2019•37 min•Season 2019Ep. 2
