The Rough Guide to Everywhere
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The Rough Guide to Everywhere
A home for all the untold travel stories. In The Rough Guide to Everywhere we chat to people from around the world with inspiring travel tales to tell, and get the odd dispatch from Rough Guides writers on the road. The series is hosted by Rough Guides editor Aimee White (Twitter: @aimeefw). Use #ro...
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35 vipindiBest spots on Earth
We’re crunching through the snow, leaping from jagged cliffs and going behind the scenes in the Rough Guide to Everywhere series finale.
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Extreme travel with Ash Bhardwaj
What is it that draws us to extreme travel? In our penultimate episode of series four of The Rough Guide to Everywhere podcast, we speak with the trav...
The art of cow-calling
When you think of Swedish traditions, maybe what comes to mind is fika, lagom or Midsummer’s Day celebrations. But there’s another, quite unique tradi...
Responsible Photography
What exactly is ‘responsible photography’? In this episode, we’re exploring how we can be more mindful when photographing a particular place or a pers...
Shanghai: adventure writing
Adventure writing has the ability to transport you to the place you’re reading about: taking in the unfamiliar script on a road sign, savouring sharp...
Liberation Route Europe
The 6th June 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy, so in this podcast episode we take a look at how the Second World War...
Witchcraft in Western Iceland
Icelandic folklore complements the rugged landscape of the remote West Fjords. With ethereal vistas, natural beauty and enchanting landscapes aplenty,...
Preview: The Insight Guides Podcast
Our sister-guidebook series, Insight Guides, have brought out their very own podcast. Exciting times! In this short episode we chat with Zara Sekhavat...
Green Bank: travelling to a communications black hole
Welcome to series four of the Rough Guide to Everywhere! With a brand new host on board (Rough Guides editor Aimee White), we've got a fresh batch of...
USA: the Black Masking Indians of New Orleans
In eighteenth-century Louisiana, escapee African slaves would make a break for the bayous. Here they might encounter Native Americans and occasionally...
DNA travel: a genetic journey
This week on The Rough Guide to Everywhere, host Rebecca Hallett (instagram.com/becca.hallett) takes a journey into her own genes, and asks whether it...
Galápagos: the human story
Galápagos. What do you picture when you hear those four syllables? Chances are it’s wildlife, from giant tortoises and marine iguanas to blue-footed b...
Malta: land of sea and stone
Having made it through colonisation by everyone from the Phoenicians to the Romans to the British, Malta may now be facing its biggest threat of all:...
England’s Northeast: tall tales and sea shanties
From the region's coal mines to keel boats plying the mighty River Tyne and ships on the hunt for precious whale oil, shanties eased and animated work...
Solo female travel: independent or unsafe?
Bring a fake wedding ring, cover up, don’t stay out late – just go with friends and don’t risk it! Every woman knows to expect these responses when sh...
South Africa: meet the Black Mambas
In Balule Nature Reserve, a woman’s place is in the bush, putting off poachers and protecting rhinos – even when heavily pregnant. Rough Guides travel...
Haiti: the art of vodou
Artworks made from human skulls, all-night street parades and frenzied spirit possession, Rough Guides author Thomas Rees (twitter.com/ThomasNRees) le...
Trailer: The Rough Guide to Everywhere Season 3
Trailer for series 3 of travel podcast The Rough Guide to Everywhere.
We're back with wonderful new stories, new guests, new locations a...
In search of the northern lights
In this episode Greg travels to Finnish Lapland to embark on a hunt for the northern lights.
This is Greg's last episode of the Rough Gu...
From Kenya to Bolivia: on the road with Rough Guides
At any one time, somewhere, there is a Rough Guides author on the road, crossing a country on a rickety bus, scribbling notes on the back of a receipt...
The Extraordinary Life of Aboriginal Storyteller Francis Firebrace
Cowboy, pirate, storyteller, cultural educator, soft-porn photographer. 81-year-old Francis Firebrace has led an extraordinary life.
In t...
The Natural Navigator
In a world where we rely so heavily on GPS to get from A to B, it is easy to tune out from the natural navigational cues that surround us.
Tanzania Albinism Collective
On the Tanzanian island of Ukerewe, and across sub-Saharan Africa, people with albinism are persecuted in devastating and unimaginable ways.
North Korea
We've all heard so much about North Korea. But how many of us have actually travelled to the secretive state?
In this week's episode Greg...
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner (LIVE)
The Rough Guide to Everywhere podcast is back!
Today we are delighted to launch Series Two of the Rough Guide to Everywhere, with this sp...
Off-Road in the Scottish Highlands
In March 2017, podcast host Greg Dickinson travelled to the Scottish Highlands on Rough Guides duties.
While on the road, Greg spent an a...
The Ghanaian Test
For Esther Armah, travelling and living between different places has defined her identity. She has lived in Accra, London and New York, and in this ep...
Rocinha Surf School
In this week's episode we chat with Mikey Krzyzanowski, founder of Goma Collective, about his documentary on a Brazilian surf school that is empowerin...
A View From Space
This week we hear from a man who has seen entire continents in one glance: NASA astronaut, Don Thomas.
Don has orbited Earth nearly 700...
Microadventures
This week we hear from National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year Alastair Humphreys, the man behind Microadventures.
He tells us how h...
Tim Key's gap year in Ukraine
In this week's episode, poet comedian Tim Key tells us about his gap year in Kiev, Ukraine. He also shares stories from southeast Asia and India, wher...
Wild Things
In this week's episode, we travel to Latin America to hear from two of the world's most ambitious and outspoken eco-pioneers.
Kris Tompki...
The Travel Confessions of Ruby Wax
In this third episode of The Rough Guide to Everywhere we catch up with the one and only Ruby Wax.
Ruby shares previously untold travel s...
That's Not Hygge
In this second episode of The Rough Guide to Everywhere, we hunker down and talk about "hygge" with Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institu...
Just Like Riding a Bicycle
In this first episode of The Rough Guide to Everywhere, we talk to two people who have cycled huge lengths of the planet, fifty years apart.