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) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) Book Club 22: Moonlight Express by Monisha Rajesh
This special episode is the audio of the Facebook Livestream of the October 2025 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, speaking with author Monisha Rajesh about her book "Moonlight Express: ...Show More
10) 368 Bangkok Trip Diary and Thoughtful Travel Scorecard
Bangkok called my name again in September, and this episode recaps my experiences spending five days in the Thai capital, for a mix of work and fun purposes (of course, even the work parts were fun!)....Show More