Action Packed Travel
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Welcome to Action Packed Travel! Our podcast features amazing travel stories...without having to go anywhere. The episodes are interviews with people who've been inspired by their adventures. They're also full of information and useful links, all of which you can find on our Show Notes. Our podcast can be used for future travel ideas and plans for the days when we can explore the world again! About us: we're Felice & Peter Hardy and we’ve spent half a lifetime travelling to just about every corner of the world, making a living as travel writers out of what we like doing best – and that’s skiing, biking, hiking, eating, exploring, city breaks, seaside…and a whole lot more. We've had lots of favourable reviews, such as: "What an interesting and diverse world you are opening up for us in a nicely laid back way. Very informative and some are also wonderful archive material."
Location:
United Kingdom
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Welcome to Action Packed Travel! Our podcast features amazing travel stories...without having to go anywhere. The episodes are interviews with people who've been inspired by their adventures. They're also full of information and useful links, all of which you can find on our Show Notes. Our podcast can be used for future travel ideas and plans for the days when we can explore the world again! About us: we're Felice & Peter Hardy and we’ve spent half a lifetime travelling to just about every corner of the world, making a living as travel writers out of what we like doing best – and that’s skiing, biking, hiking, eating, exploring, city breaks, seaside…and a whole lot more. We've had lots of favourable reviews, such as: "What an interesting and diverse world you are opening up for us in a nicely laid back way. Very informative and some are also wonderful archive material."
Twitter:
@Packed2Action
Language:
English
Contact:
+44 (0)7827 445127
Email:
peterandfelice@gmail.com
Episodes
The Whale in the Living Room
6/30/2024
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Veteran underwater cameraman, John Ruthven, talks to us about his book and a lifetime of exploring the deep. He is also a producer of Sir David Attenborough's The Blue Planet, a zoologist, film director, writer, editor and stylist.
Duration:00:25:27
A Century of Cottar's Safaris
5/22/2024
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This week we're in Kenya talking to safari camp owner, Calvin Cotter, whose family came here from the Great Plains of the Midwest in the years before World War One.
Duration:00:31:36
The Ultimate Childcare for Skiers
4/29/2024
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This week, we're exploring the fraught subject of taking small children skiing for the very first time. We're going to start and end with a warning to listeners: If you want to book a nanny service-inclusive holiday for the coming winter, there is really no time to waste. You need to book right now.
Duration:00:28:59
The Secret Resort of Le Grand-Bornand
3/24/2024
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Le Grand-Bornand is not a name like Morzine or Chamonix that trips easily off the tongue when we mention skiing, but it's typically and traditionally French.
Duration:00:23:42
North American Dream in the French Alps
2/6/2024
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It's the twentieth anniversary of Arc 1950. The resort began as the idea of Canadian resort developer, Intrawest, creator of Mont-Tremblant in Quebec and manager of some 20 other resorts in North America – from Whistler to Mammoth.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:19:36
Wild Travels In Africa and Asia
1/2/2024
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This week we're talking to someone who specialises in creating holidays that are entirely different – taking you to places you probably thought were out of bounds to all tourists.
Duration:00:21:07
From Fjord to Snowfield
12/2/2023
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We caught up with Rory Dixon who organises skiing-touring trips off a boat in Norway and Greenland, life-changing adventures to distant corners of the world.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:21:42
Jess the Horse Nomad
11/27/2023
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Jess Isbrecht is a digital nomad who travels full time with her horses.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:17:09
The World's Most Travelled Man
11/5/2023
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Harry Mitsidis has travelled to every country in the world, at least twice. He's the founder of a website called NomadMania.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:31:51
Walking to the South Pole
10/27/2023
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To discover a little of what former Royal Marine, Sam Cox, will experience living alone at -30°C, podcaster Peter Hardy spends time in an industrial freezer.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:23:03
An American in Paris
9/28/2023
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No, not the 1951 movie starring Gene Kelly and Lesley Caron... Jay Swanson moved from the USA and now lives in Paris where he calls himself: 'a YouTuber, writer, and puppy wrangler.' He publishes a guide to the city called Paris in my Pocket.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:33:15
The Van Life Revisited
9/9/2023
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We're on the road exploring a thriving sector of the travel industry that continues to explode in popularity across Europe.
Music © Barney and Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:25:43
Wild Skiing in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan
8/27/2023
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Untamed Borders sets out to satisfy the hunger of that rare breed of traveller who's already been to the far corners of the earth, got the T-shirt but still wants more.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:28:31
Chefs, Cars and Skiing
8/15/2023
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This week, we're talking to travel guru, Amin Momen, whose London-based company Momentum Ski organises bespoke holidays.
Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:28:39
Extreme Travel Dreams
7/17/2023
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Turn your wildest travel dreams into reality, with superyacht voyages to the end of the earth, intrepid journeys to deserts, jungles, polar regions and the oceans.
Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:31:19
The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis
7/1/2023
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We're in Vienna for an unusual episode of Action Packed Travel – unusual because our principal guest is Felice herself. She's just published a book about her grandparents' dramatic escape from Vienna to London on the eve of World War II.
Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:27:32
Cycling From Antarctic To Arctic
6/21/2023
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Chris and his girlfriend Phoebe are in the saddle, for what you might describe by any standards as a rather long bike ride.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:32:16
Thermae Bath Spa – A Fusion Of Old And New
5/28/2023
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With the sunny weather outside, we felt it was time to republish this episode about Bath Thermae Spa. Bath in the southwest of England is famous for its Roman baths. In its Regency heyday, the supposedly curative waters attracted the cream of British society…and of course, Jane Austen. 2,000 years later, the waters were re-harnessed in the magnificent thermal spa located just a soap bath's throw away from the original.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:21:28
Travels With The Hungry Cyclist
5/19/2023
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Tom Kevill-Davies has managed to carve a highly successful career for himself out of his twin passions, cycling and eating.
Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Duration:00:28:25
The Future Of European Skiing
5/9/2023
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Only a handful of ski resorts in the Alps will in future offer reliable snow cover throughout the season. These include Val d'Isere, Tignes and Val Thorens in France, Cervinia in Italy, and Zermatt in Switzerland – not forgetting the Austrian glaciers.
Duration:00:26:33