The 5 Best The Thoughtful Travel Podcast Episodes
1) 323 Language Learning Through Travel and Immersion
Learning other languages can be really hard - especially if you're sitting in your home country trying to learn from a boring textbook. The guests in this episode all decided that they'd learn another...Show More
2) 295 Overnight Train Travel
Travelling overnight in a train is, I think, a very special experience. I've slept peacefully on overnight trains in Russia, Finland and Vietnam, and will happily do so again, for many reasons. Spendi...Show More
3) 314 Paul Christie, CEO Walk Japan - Deep Dive into Revitalising Rural Japan
If you decided to escape the corporate world, would you buy up a plot of land in an isolated part of Japan? It's not my first thought, but this is what Walk Japan CEO Paul Christie did at the age of f...Show More
4) 304 Bangkok Travels with Friends
Bangkok is a city which rewards many repeat visits and my recent trip there proved it! Putting together Episode 304 was a special chance for me to chat with several friends, old and new, who I had the...Show More
5) 303 Digital Nomad Life
Thank you internet: you've made many things possible, two of them being podcasts, and working as a digital nomad. In this episode on digital nomading, I've got three guests who all bring quite differe...Show More
6) 373 Dangerous Animals on our Travels
Travelling to observe animals in the wild is a huge reason that we move around the world. The best case scenario is that we can see them without disturbing their environments or habits, perhaps take s...Show More
7) 372 Ayutthaya, Thailand: Visiting Thoughtfully
One of my favourite outings in Bangkok last month was heading north to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed historic city of Ayutthaya for a day, together with my friend Vincie. Since we are both deeply i...Show More
8) 371 Travel Trends for 2026
The new year is coming at us fast: 2026, here we come! At this time of year the reports and articles about travel trends are rife, and I like to look through them all and see what might be happening i...Show More
9) 370 Van Life Diaries: Europe 1985: UK, Ireland and Singapore
In this final episode of the Van Life Diaries: Europe 1985, we return to England, drive through Scotland and Wales, and catch a ferry to Ireland. Then it's back to London, a farewell to our beloved ca...Show More
10) 369 Travel and Language Learning
Travel and learning other languages often go hand in hand, whether we're cramming in a few words before we visit somewhere for the first time or we are intentionally travelling to practice a language,...Show More