Ep 8 - Titanic - the ill-fated liner for tourists

04/29/22 • 31 min

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We mark the 110th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic with a tour of Titanic Belfast, the £multi-million visitor attraction built on the launch site of the ill-fated ship. The maritime theme continues with our ever-present segments designed to test even the hardiest of Titanoraks. Can Andrea guess Heidi's particularly abstract Where In The World destination? And which of the other Top Five Titanic-linked locations has Andrea explored? We discuss The Titanic Graveyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia; the Titanic Museum, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; Titanic – the Artefact Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada; our very own Titanic Belfast and the Sea City Museum in Southampton, England. SUBSCRIBE to our podcast for lots more travel insights and musings: Instagram - @travelinyourpocketpodcast Twitter - @Travel_IYP Facebook - @TravelInYourPocketPodcast Near, far, whereeeeever they are, our hearts will go on for our good friends at Northern Ireland band 3D Shark, who provide our theme tune. Thanks for listening and see you next month!

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Ep. 7 - Castles, musical holidays & Krakow, Poland (from an insider!)

In episode 7, the queens of travel chat castles. The ones we've been to and the ones we want to visit. We also ponder what exactly makes a castle anyway (it may be something to do with turrets). We take in everywhere from Glenapp Castle in Scotland and Portmerion's Castell Deudraeth in Wales, along with Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, the inspiration for Disney's classic castle and Bran Castle in Romania, famous for both Dracula and Vlad The Impaler.

Then we discuss the Top 5 musical must-sees according to Trips to Discover - Ireland (all of it), Havana, Berlin, Liverpool and Seattle. But no J-pop or K-pop, and Andrea spots something that might be a bit wrong about Heidi's choice of list.

Our fantasy VIP departure lounge interview this episode is with Garrett Van Reed, Editor in Chief of Poland In Your Pocket. He gives is the insider guide to his how city, Krakow, where he's lived for 16 years and publishes, among other Poland city guides, Krakow In Your Pocket. He tells us all about the city's medieval centre and Jewish quarter, its old town – ringed by Planty Park and the remnants of the city’s medieval walls, expansive Rynek Glówny (market square), the Cloth Hall, a Renaissance-era trading outpost, and St. Mary’s Basilica, a 14th-century Gothic church.

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Ep. 9 - ABBA, quirky museums & postcards (who still ends them?)

Calling all Dancing Queens, we think you'll love our fABBAulous chat with ABBA The Museum's Creative Director and Curator, Ingmarie Halling (she also used to tour with ABBA overseeing their costumes, make-up and hair). Ingmarie knows more about the Swedish supergroup than anyone else (apart from Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anna-Frid of course) and our chat with her comes just as ABBA Voyage arrives in London. Find out all about the museum, its history and how you can chat to a member of ABBA there, as well as getting Ingmarie's lowdown on Stockholm itself.

Continuing the museum theme, this month's Top 5 takes a look at travel website wanderlust.so.uk's choice of the world's strangest and quirkiest museums - the Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Tennessee, USA; the British Lawnmower Museum in Southport, England; The Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia; New Delhi's Museum of Toilets in India and Japan's Cup Noodles Museum in Osaka. But what about Iceland's Phallological Museum dedicated to penises - has Wanderlust cocked-up by not including it, we ask?

We've also got our regular Where in the World feature - does Andrea outwit Heidi for the third month in a row?

And we kick off the show by asking if anyone sends postcards anymore (Andrea certainly does, from far flung places including the Falkland Islands and North Korea) and we look through Heidi's box of cards from years gone by as well as the custom and practice of what to write - weather here, wish you were lovely!

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