Ep 5 - 2022 travel trends, tourist-friendly graveyards & Bulgaria (top tourist tips)

01/30/22 • 32 min

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What are the big travel trends for 2022? We're so glad you asked! We discuss them, along with a chat about the world's most beautiful graveyards (yes, really) and why you should see them before you, er, die. We then invite Bulgaria In Your Pocket publisher and editor, Paromita Sanatani, into our fantasy departure lounge to ask her all about her adopted home country and why you should go there. After kicking off the episode with our Where in the World quiz (answer at the end of the show), we chat about staycations, upgrading your vacay, slow travel and letting the train take the strain in our review of this year's predicted travel trends. In our Top 5 slot we look into historyhit.com's list of the five most beautiful cemeteries in the world - Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, USA; La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery, Czech Republic; Highgate Cemetery, London and Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. But who is buried there, why should you go, have you ever been, what do Heidi and Andrea think of these picks and have either of them ever scribed Smiths lyrics on Oscar Wilde's tomb? And who do we meet in our fantasy VIP departure lounge? Why, it's travel guru and Bulgaria expert, Paromita Sanatani, who tells us about her journey from India via the UK to her adopted home in Bulgaria, where she's lived for almost 30 years. So she's perfectly placed to tell us all about Bulgaria's major attractions, why it's the perfect location for skiers as well as sun-seekers, and what she likes, and doesn't like, about cities including Sophia, Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo. Don't book your trip without listening to Paromita's advice first. SUBSCRIBE to our podcast, you know you want to! Follow us on Instagram at @travelinyourpocketpodcast, on Twitter at @Travel_IYP, on Facebook at @TravelInYourPocketPodcast or email us at [email protected] Find Bulgaria In Your Pocket on Instagram at @bulgariainyourpocket and online at https://www.inyourpocket.com/bulgaria. Thanks, as always, to our good friends from Northern Ireland band 3D Shark, who provide our theme tune. Listen to more at https://soundcloud.com/3d-shark. Our 6th episode will be out towards the end of next month. See you then, wherever you are in the world!

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Ep 4 - World’s rudest place names & we drink our Top 5 global cocktails (and get quite drunk!)

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Listeners of a delicate disposition, cover your ears now, because in our final episode of 2021, we discuss the world's rudest, funniest place names, including the village of Muff in Donegal, Ireland and Twatt in the Scottish Orkney islands. Inspired by the Rude Road Trip around the UK, undertaken by brothers Andy and Magnus Tait in 2019, we chat about naughty nomenclature, including Sandy Balls holiday resort in England, Pig Turd Alley in Sacramento, USA and Shag Point, South Australia, among others.

In our Top 5 we drink 5 famous cocktails named after, or invented in, different global destinations, and rank them in order. As you'd image, we get increasingly tipsy as we drink our way through the list. What would be your favourite - a Bellini from Harry's Bar, Venice; a Pisco Sour from Peru or Chile; A Singapore Sling from the Long Bar in Raffles, Singapore; a Mojito from Cuba or an Irish coffee? We try them all so you don't have to.

We finish the episode with the answer to the Where In The World clues Heidi gave Andrea at the start of the show.

There's no interview this episode (because, alcohol) but we'll be back in January with more chats, another Where in the World, a top 5 and an interview with an influential travel expert.

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Thanks, as always, to our good friends from Northern Ireland band 3D Shark, who provide our theme tune.

Our 5th episode will be out towards the end of January. See you then, wherever you are in the world!

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Ep 6 - George Best’s Belfast & the world’s top football stadiums

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Football special! We celebrate the Beautiful Game in this episode with a tour of George Best's childhood home, now open as a short-term holiday let in Belfast. Tour guide Peter McCabe tells us about the house where George kicked his first ball before we settle down for the night in the boyhood bedroom of the World's Greatest Footballer.* We thoroughly recommend this unique visitor attraction for both tours and overnight stays (details of how to book it, below).

Then we discuss the world's top 5 football stadiums to visit before you die, from the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia (which also hosts football matches, fact fans) via the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City; Wembley in London and Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain.

Tell us about your favourite footie trips, tours and recommendations in the comments of our social media pages. SUBSCRIBE to our podcast, you know you want to! Follow us on Instagram at @travelinyourpocketpodcast, on Twitter at @Travel_IYP, on Facebook at @TravelInYourPocketPodcast or email us at [email protected] Special thanks to EastSide Partnership for our overnight stay and tour of the George Best house - www.eastsidepartnership.com. You can find out more about booking the George Best house for yourself here: www.georgebesthouse.com. Thanks, as always, to our good friends 3D Shark, who provide our theme tune. They also do football songs - check out We're Going to the Euros; Jackie Fullerton Says (I'm in Heaven When We Score) and the frankly brilliantly bonkers, My Name is Brian Clough. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/3d-shark.

Our 7th episode will be out towards the end of next month. See you then, wherever you are in the world!