This episode Peter explores the gateway drug of travel – hostels.

Often funky, always raucous, hostels are  often our first taste of life on the road and the reason we can afford to travel in the first place.

World renowned budget traveller, Kash Battacharya, reveals the luxury hostels you need to add to your post-Covid bucket list.

Hostel manager, Linda Martinez, helps read out your hostel horror stories as well as offering her perspective from the other side of the check-in counter.

And Peter explains the perils of sharing a dorm in a Japanese hostel with an American one man band.

Put on your dancing shoes, NSITT is going to Cuba!

In the first of our destination-themed episodes, we visit the land of mojitos, cigars and Chevies, scratching below the surface in search a truly authentic experience.

Author Anthony DePalma reveals how balancing a meringue cake on a crowded bus helped him understand the Cuban psyche.

Listeners share their Cuban stories, from rain storms in Viñales to swapping shorts with tennis instructors.

And Peter reveals his Top 5 Cuban experiences, including watching baseball with the big man himself, Comandante Fidel.

Join Peter as he celebrates border crossings – one of travel's most challenging and perverse experiences.

Social Media travel guru, Drew Binsky, tells how secret footage of his border crossing in Sierra Leone got a border guard arrested.

Intrepid traveller and comic book editor Marie Javins reads your stories and reveals the best way to smuggle Tintin statues across African borders.

And Peter shares his Top 5 most memorable border crossings, including one on the Khyber Pass that he has been dining out on for decades.