January 2010

“So Profound!”

January 24, 2010

When is a traveller, not a traveller? I’m an Englishman working in New Zealand. I hollowly joke “I’m travelling on the spot!” My colleagues are all Kiwi. Some have never been overseas, some never will. Some sit and stare at the bright lights of Australia on the horizon, while some are proudly chained to the […]

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Calling all Travellers

January 17, 2010

Does your mum berate you for not texting her thrice daily? Is grandma in a grump because you didn’t call and make her Tuesday? Well, worry not my little ruck-de-sack, for I have the solution: Double-zero, double-four. Like sloppy pints, and chunky chips, that number resounds like the call to arms for British travellers; it’s […]

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006 LISTENup: The Flirt of the Forest

January 11, 2010

[audio:https://www.trailofants.com/audio/Player/006_LISTENup_The_Flirt_of_the_Forest.mp3] The LISTENup podcast series returns, with a sensuous foray into the Sumatran jungle, before catching a tortuous getaway bus out. Ant gets up close and overly personal with the People of the Forest, before sampling the rich palette of colours which make up this mystical Indonesian island.

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