Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in this episode of The Radio Vagabond, where I meet Roger, who was born and raised in The Bahamas. He shares his story, life on the island and how he saw Hurricane Matthew. This one was first released in February 2018.
Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Atlanta, where I visit Coca-Cola, CNN, and go to an Ed Sheeran concert where my phone dies before my Uber arrives – and I have no idea where I live. This one was first released in September 2018.
Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Albania, where I was working on becoming famous and visited the city of 1000 windows. This one was first released in October 2020.
Ric Gazarian (aka Global Gaz ) is the co-founder of a brand-new festival for world travellers. Extraordinary Travel Festival is to be held in Yerevan, Armenia, October 14-16, 2022. In this episode, Ric tells us what to expect. If you want to go, you can get a 50 USD discount on your ticket by using "palle" as the code. See more on ExtraordinaryTravelFestival.com , and you should also listen to his own podcast, Counting Countries , where he interviews people on a quest to travel to all 193 UN cou...
Welcome to Flashback Friday. In this episode, I am in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka and attended a cocktail party with beautiful traditional music and dancing. This one was first released in September 2019, not long after the horrible terror attack in Sri Lanka. So, we’re also going to be talking about that.
Welcome to Flashback Friday. In this episode, I arrive to one of my most favourite cities in the world, Cape Town. And this is also where I was inspired to start my life as a digital nomad. We begin with a visit to the hospital. This one was first released in February 2020.
As I was working on the next episodes from Saudi Arabia, I came across a recording from the car when I was driving across the country with Cynthia Rignanese – who calls herself “Cynthia Globe” because she travels so much. In fact, Saudi Arabia is her country number 124. She’s a lawyer from Florida and has her own law firm, which allows her to take a lot of time off to travel the globe. And this episode comes out just a few days before we meet again for another epic journey in four African countr...
In this episode, I ask the same five questions to six New Yorkers. I also visited the top of the tallest building in the western hemisphere, One World Trade Center. This one was first released in November 2018.
We’re back in Uruguay, and if you haven’t heard the first part of my visit to this little South American country, you should go back and listen to that one first. In that one, I arrived in Uruguay with a small group of nomad friends. We went on a tour of Montevideo, we went to prison, I shared a lot of facts about the country, I opened the history book, I talked about the weather, and then at the end of the episode, I went half an hour north of the capital and found a beautiful winery with the I...
In this episode we’re going to visit a small country in South America. I’m on my way from Buenos Aires in Argentina with a small group of nomad friends that I’ve gotten to know from the Nomad Cruise. We’re going to be spending a few days in Montevideo and then the others are going back to Buenos Aires, but I’m staying a few days longer because I have an interesting appointment in the countryside. Something I’m also going to share with you here on the podcast. FACTS ABOUT URUGUAY HOW BIG AND HOW ...
Before this week’s flashback, I want to say two things. First of all, I celebrated an anniversary two days ago. Wednesday this week it was exactly six years ago I started my life as a full-time nomad. It’s so funny to think that when I left Denmark on July 6th, 2016, I thought I would be travelling for four years. Now, six years later I feel I’ve only just started. And the second thing: It’s about time you get something new – something you’ve never heard before. And you will get that next week. ...
Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Conakry, Guinea. This one was first released in May 2019.
Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Toronto, Canada. This one was first released in December 2017.
Welcome to Flashback Friday. Join me in Rabat, Morocco. This one was first released in January 2019.
Welcome to a special episode of The Radio Vagabond – recorded in May 2022. At a conference for digital nomads called NomadBase Live in Croatia, I met Orest Zub from Ukraine. He’s another digital nomad and a big part of the community Nomad Mania founded by our good mutual friend Harry Mitsidis . Orest have been to 129 countries so far in his ten years as a digital nomad. When the Russians invaded his country in February this year, he came back to Ukraine to help his country in the war. Not by bei...
Welcome to part 4 of my mini-series about Kenya and The Masai Mara. Click here to go to part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 . After our exciting hot air balloon trip, I went to the Maassai village in the Mara. This was my last day in the Mara. I spent two nights in Lenchada Tourist Camp in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya. And when we were asked if we wanted to go for a visit to a real Maasai village, I was the only one in the group who was interested. So, I got a private tour for a few hours. WELC...
Welcome to part 3 of my mini-series about Kenya and The Masai Mara. Click here to go to part 1 and part 2 . I decided to splurge and go on an early morning hot air balloon safari – very early the morning after New Year’s Eve. I wanted to see the beautiful sunrise on the horizon of the savanna with exotic animals below me. So, after our game drive, I spoke to Francis who would arrange pickup for me just four hours after we entered 2022. Francis mentiones that the balloon will launch at 06 in the ...
THINGS TO DO IN NAIROBI In the last post, I was talking about Shane and Monica who I met in Nairobi. They both gave us tips on all the amazing stuff there’s to see around the country, but there’s also a lot to do in the capital. VISIT THE KAREN BLIXEN MUSEUM The museum is located in the town Karen at the Ngong Hills slopes just outside Nairobi. It was owned by Danish author Karen and her Swedish husband Baron. It became more famous after the renowned “Out of Africa” film. It’s open to the public...
Welcome to this mini-series about Kenya and Masai Mara. This is part 1 On December 31st, I was excited to go to Masai Mara. I went on a 5-hour drive from Nairobi, Kenya, to Masai Mara National Reserve (often referred to just as The Mara). I knew that the game drives would start early in the morning, and I would not be partying too hard for New Year. The two-night/three-day safari trip was partly made possible by Scenery Adventures Ltd, which is owned and operated by Monica Musungu. Scenery Adven...
It’s a sad week for the world, Europe, and especially Ukraine – as Russia invaded the country in an unprovoked attack yesterday morning. So, I thought I would share a conversation I had during a walk with Ksenia from UkraineToGo . We walked through the beautiful city of Kyiv when I was there at the very beginning of my journey, in August 2016. This was at a time when Ukraine also was at war with Russia after they invaded Crimea. As you will hear, it was a love/hate relationship with their big br...
काठमाडौंमा स्वागत छ WELCOME TO KATHMANDU Before going to Nepal, I’d been told that this country has some very friendly people – that show a genuine interest in who you are and where you’re from. And that was the case already in the taxi on the way from the airport to the city. In the car with Basu Rimal, he asked a lot about where I was from and what it was like there. He told me that he had been to Scandinavia. “I’ve been to Norway and Finland, but not Denmark yet. Scandinavia is really nice, I...
¡HOLA BOLIVIA! In this episode, we’re going to La Paz in Bolivia. First, we’re going over the city in what is called. ‘The most spectacular public transport system on the planet’ . Then we’re going to what is called ‘The most dangerous road on the planet’. And then we finish the best way possible by flying on a 1.5 km zipline more than 400 meters above a valley. EXPLORING BOLIVIA I arrived at La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, at 10 pm but unfortunately, everything was closed. Luckily, I found a st...
Welcome to an interview episode of The Radio Vagabond. We’re talking to digital nomad expert Marisa Meddin from Atlanta, USA. I know that you guys listening love to travel and hear about adventures in far-away places. But a lot of you are also interested in the nomadic lifestyle. How is it even possible to sit on a beach somewhere in the world with your laptop and do your work? Well, that’s the picture often portrayed… that we sit on the beach with the laptop and an exotic cocktail within reach....
In this episode, we travel to Dubai and meet the world at the Expo 2020 Dubai. From cancelled Cruises and great lessons and connections from the travel world. WORLD EXPO DUBAI I am back in Dubai for the Expo 2020 Dubai. My friend Jason spoke warmly about the event, and I was convinced. If you don’t remember, Jason is my Couchsurfing host from Connecticut, and he was also the main organizer of the CouchCrash I had the pleasure of attending a few years back. For the last 40 years (since 1982) Jaso...
In this episode, we have an interesting conversation with a public speaker, stand-up comedian, quizmaster, magician, mind reader, DJ, genius dancer and arguably one of the most entertaining things to come out of Wales since Tom Jones. His name is Eddy Jenkins but on the cruise ship we all know him as "Cruise Director Eddy". Hear how he travelled to nearly 100 countries and what it’s like working on a cruise ship.
BONJOU FROM THE CARIBBEAN This week I'm going to take you to three different islands in the Caribbean. We will visit an independent UN nation Saint Lucia, then head over to two autonomous islands that are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. CRUISING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC In August 2021, I explored Saint Lucia through a 12-day cruise with Celebrity Cruiselines. I was still traveling through the pandemic and knew that this would impact the cruise. There are stark differences between how we trav...
I met up with my old friend Dave Brett in November, when we were both visiting World Travel Market in London. Dave is a solo adventure travel blogger and we've met several times here and on conferences around the world. We even went on a press trip together to Sri Lanka a few years ago – you might remember him singing on the bus in one of the episodes from there. So, it was about time we sat down and recorded a chat about travelling and how he works as a travel writer. Read his blog post from th...
BIENVENIDO A SAN SALVADOR The first leg of my trip in El Salvador is the capital San Salvador. I take a walking tour and connect with warm Salvadorans, indulging in coffee and pupusa. El Salvador's airport is around 40 minutes from the capital, the biggest city in this incredibly interesting country. I arrive in the country in the afternoon and spend the first night in the airport hotel because I don't want to arrive in the city after dark. This was a mistake. There isn't much to see, and I coul...
3D/BINAURAL AUDIO In parts of this episode, I used a special recording technique. Some call it binaural audio; some spatial audio and I normally just say 3D audio. This technique creates a three-dimensional audio effect that brings out so much more detail and depth than regular stereo (where the sound comes from only left and right). So, put on your headphones and give this episode a listen to get the full experience. Levántate y brilla desde Colombia Well, before I landed in Colombia, I had a f...
A warm hello from sunny Florida, USA. The glorious thing about the CouchSurfing community is that you get to make friends all over the world. In fact, the community is so warm that you also get to meet their friends (and friends of friends), too. When I CouchSurfed through Connecticut I got to know Jason and the ConnectiCouch crew. When I came to Florida, I asked him if they knew of anyone’s couch I could crash on when I’m here. The answer was “ Yes, you absolutely must meet Cynthia when you’re ...
