HeyJaredThoughtful Travel
A place for travellers who want to see the world in a thoughtful way, by Amanda Kendle, the host of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast.
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Give me this over a five-star luxury hotel any time (am I crazy?) (opens the original)
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Yesterday, I spent a few minutes online to book a hotel for a night on an upcoming trip. (The details of that upcoming trip are, well, upcoming … just call me a woman of mystery …!)For various boring reasons, this single night will be in a standard kind of chain hotel, which goes against all my travel instincts, but also got me thinking about some of the other more unusual places I’ve stayed over the years.Exciting accommodation for me isn’t a matter of thread counts (honestly if you gave me a h
What John Steinbeck taught me about being a thoughtful traveller (opens the original)
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Apparently, some Australian high schools now include a John Steinbeck novel in their English curriculum, but back in my day, this was not the case; that’s my excuse for why I hadn’t read a single Steinbeck book until this year! (I’ve now got a bunch on my to-be-read list, don’t worry.)We picked Travels with Charley for our most recent Thoughtful Travellers Book Club read and I not only enjoyed it thoroughly but was pleasantly surprised at how many lessons for thoughtful travellers Steinbeck incl
The art of slow travel in north-west England (opens the original)
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The idea of “slow travel” is often discussed at a pretty esoteric level without giving us normal travellers much idea about how we really can do this well. So let me try! I’m going to take you back a couple of years to the north-west of England in April 2024. My son and I had a few days between catching up with friends, and then joining them again in the Lake District for their wedding. So we had an approximate location - anywhere between Wigan and the north-eastern corner of the Lake District -
Are you also a novelty-seeker when you travel? (opens the original)
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Last year in Seoul, my son and I rode the metro every day. There were a lot of new things to see there but one that intrigued me particularly was the constant presence of cabinets full of gas masks.On the trains themselves, they also played public safety videos showing what we should do in the case of an emergency and how we should use the masks if required (I honestly found these a little scary at first!). I’d never seen anything like this elsewhere in the world (and subsequent research suggest
What I'd really tell my younger travelling self (opens the original)
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There’s no way that 25-year-old me would have listened to 50-year-old me if there indeed was a way for me to time travel and give myself advice - but it’s still an interesting question to ponder!A recent podcast episode I put out was all about what you’d tell your younger travelling self and the advice from Tom, Joshua and Tim, my three delightful guests, was diverse and excellent, but I thought I’d add some more of my own ideas in this post.So, listen up, young Amanda!Remember it might not be p
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