167 Christmas Travels [Replay]

12/23/19 • 28 min

It's Christmas time again - it comes so fast! - and I'm replaying this Christmas episode of the podcast from the early years, which I know many people won't have heard. It's full of both fun and poignancy, and even includes a guest appearance from the Easter Bunny.

At this time of year, when I've mostly wound down from work for the year and am spending lots of extra time with my son, who's on holidays from school for six whole weeks, I have lots of time to reflect and one of those reflections is just how much I love creating The Thoughtful Travel Podcast and how grateful I am for my fabulous audience and community.

So, if you celebrate Christmas, I hope it's a fabulously merry one. And delicious, too.

In this episode, I chat with Annalicia Lynn who had an interesting Christmas in Taiwan while she was teaching English there. We talk about the cultural differences between many Asian countries and English-speaking nations and she has one of my very favourite stories about how her Taiwanese colleagues tried to create a Christmas atmosphere in the workplace.

Emma Mann started a tradition of spending Christmas abroad, and she talks about the difference between spending Christmas in another country where the traditions are strong, versus a place where Christmas generally isn’t celebrated.

Finally, Joe Baur chats about his experience living in Germany at Christmas time – one of my favourite places to be during this season!

Links:

Annalicia of Exercise180 - https://www.exercise180.com/
Emma of The Vagabond Feminist - https://thevagabondfeminist.wordpress.com
Joe Baur - https://joebaur.com
Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers/

Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/

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So, if you celebrate Christmas, I hope it's a fabulously merry one. And delicious, too.

Finally, Joe Baur chats about his experience living in Germany at Christmas time – one of my favourite places to be during this season!

Links:

Annalicia of Exercise180 - https://www.exercise180.com/
Emma of The Vagabond Feminist - https://thevagabondfeminist.wordpress.com
Joe Baur - https://joebaur.com
Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers/

Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Previous Episode

166 Travel Year in Review

2019 is coming to an end - and it's been another big year for The Thoughtful Travel Podcast. You can hear about some of our travels in Episodes 150 (Thoughtful Travel in Denmark) and 160 (Cairns and Queensland), and in this episode I'll tell you some of the statistics from this year (including in how many countries The Thoughtful Travel Podcast has been downloaded in ... it's quite a lot!).

I also answer some great listener questions which include topics like what I think the next hot destinations will be, how I will get out of my comfort zone in 2020, how to balance thoughtful travel with kids and a great question about how to answer "what is your favourite country?" when, as is the case with most of us, we definitely can't narrow that down to one (and it kind of defeats the purpose of travelling to do so, too!).

Thanks to all my fabulous guests and listeners over 2019 - I literally couldn't make this show with you and your excellent input!

Links:

Thoughtful Travel in Denmark - notaballerina.com/150

Cairns and Queensland Diary - notaballerina.com/160

Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers

Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/166

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Next Episode

168 New Year Travels [Replay]

Celebrating the turn of the year can be a lot of fun, and if you happen to be somewhere away from home for December 31, it can be even more fun and memorable.

This week's episode of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast is a replay of my first New Year's Eve travel episode from three years ago, as I know many current listeners won't have heard it. It features Kim-Ling's story of New Year's Eve on Ibiza - and it's not what you think - and Di's story of what makes up a wonderful New Year's Eve in Tasmania. Of course, I also mention some of my memorable New Year's Eve celebrations - I think one of my favourites was a year in Bratislava with local Slovak friends and my sister (on her honeymoon, no less!), featuring snow(wo)men and fire crackers. This year, I'll be near the beach, always a good way to ring in a new year, I think!

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