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Podcast Episode 17. Back in North Africa, Morocco
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It was a relief to finally touch down in Tangier, Morocco, and good to be back in North Africa.
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Podcast Episode 16. Driving the Nordschleife, Germany
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Armed with a completely inappropriate car, I embarked on a lap of one of world’s most feared and revered motor racing circuits
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Podcast Episode 15. Outside the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
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Having spent the first day of my visit to the Pyramids of Giza getting a feel for the place, and venturing inside the Pyramids of Khufu and Khafre, I returned the following day ready for some wider exploration.
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Podcast Episode 14. Inside the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
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Not only was I visiting Giza, Egypt, one of the most amazing historic sites on earth, I was about to enter two of the Great Pyramids.
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Podcast Episode 13. The Panathenaic Stadium, Greece
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The Olympics are a two week festival of sport that has me enthralled. Consequently, when I arrived in Athens, I was keen to visit the Panathenaic Stadium to soak up a little Olympic history.
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Podcast Episode 12. Searching for Kiwis, New Zealand
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I discovered that due to both luck and good management, the kiwi is relatively common in the forested hills behind the town of Whakatane. And when I say ‘relatively’, that’s in comparison to places that don’t have any at all.
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Podcast Episode 11. The Minibuses of Sharm El Sheik, Egypt.
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I had been too nervous to jump on the taxi minibuses in Egypt’s heaving cities, but figured I couldn’t go too far wrong in the beachside resort town of Sharm El Sheik. Riding the minibuses turned out to be a really enjoyable local experience.
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Podcast Episode 10. A Chance Meeting in Wadi Rum, Jordan
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When I pulled up to help a bloke in a broken down vehicle, I had no idea it would lead to an amazing night as a guest of the Bedouin.
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Podcast Episode 9. The Cemeteries of Gallipoli
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The cemeteries of Gallipoli hold tens of thousands who died in 1915; every one a story of a life cut short by the tragedy that occurred here in this beautiful place.
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Podcast Episode 8. Slings and Stones May Break My Bones, Spain
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Whilst waiting for favourable winds for our onward journey, I decided to have a look around the Castillo de San Carlos in Palma, Majorca. I was to discover that the holiday playground of Palma was once a place of piracy, plunder and peril…