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Seit 2026 gehöre ich zu der Bevölkerungsgruppe, die angeblich nie Zeit hat, gleichzeitig aber beteuert, wie schön es ist, nichts mehr zu müssen und vor allem ausschlafen zu können. Da ich mich im Laufe meiner 66 Lebensjahre gut kennenlernen konnte, habe ich die berechtigte Befürchtung, dass ich nach dem Aufstehen und ausgiebigem Frühstück den Tag bis abends pläneschmiedend im Nachthemd verbringen werde, verwundert, dass der Tag schon wieder rum ist. Deswegen wusste ich schon lange vorher:ICH BRAUCHE EINEN EHRGEIZIGEN PLAN.Zu Hilfe kam mir ein Zeitungsartikel, der von einem jungen Mann...

¿Te gustaría aprender español escuchando historias reales, no listas de vocabulario? Poco a Poco es el podcast para aprender español pensado para estudiantes de nivel A2-B2 que buscan inmersión real en español.Cada episodio combina una breve introducción en inglés con un cuerpo principal en español lento y claro — ideal para spanish learners que quieren entender de verdad, sin perderse. Y al final, viene la parte que hace diferente a este show: un desglose en inglés del vocabulario, las expresiones idiomáticas y un punto de gramática del episodio. Es completamente opcional — ...

Willkommen bei abgefahren. Der Reisepodcast! Wir sind Katrin und Susi, Reisebloggerinnen und Freundinnen mit einer Schwäche für Roadtrips und Outdoor-Abenteuer. Ob Schwäbische Alb oder Uganda: Wir nehmen euch mit in die Ferne und geben ehrliche Einblicke in unser Leben als Reiseblogger. Freut euch auf Real-Talk über Reiseplanung, Ausrüstung, Fails und spannende Gäste. Steigt ein, schnallt euch an und kommt mit! Alle Infos zum Nachreisen findet ihr auf unseren Blogs: Susi Maier – Black Dots White Spots: blackdotswhitespots.com Katrin Lehr – Viel unterwegs: viel-unterwegs.de

100 Kilometer am Tag. Dazu 1.000 Höhenmeter. Und unzählige Erkenntnisse, die auf keiner Landkarte stehen. Jeannette Bastian reist allein mit dem Fahrrad durch Europa und entdeckt unterwegs weit mehr als schöne Landschaften. Sie begegnet Menschen, die in Erinnerung bleiben, erlebt Service, der begeistert, und findet Impulse für Führung, Management und die IT. Ein Podcast für alle, die Fernweh lieben und Inspiration suchen. "5 Sterne für die IT– das IT Service Management Buch für eine neue Servicekultur" von Jeannette Bastian. Jetzt reinblättern auf www.5sterne-solution.de Radreisende...

A monthly magazine programme I've been recording for HRB about life in Spain to where I retired 18 years ago, covering many interesting facts about my adopted country and aspects of day-to-day life for a non-Spaniard. If you are planning to buy a holiday home or retire there, you will find lots of useful background information but I will not be covering the complex visa or residency rules.

Hosted by two friends who share a passion for public lands and a fascination with what can go wrong there, each week hosts Danielle and Cassie explore the darker side of our National Parks. But it isn’t always chills and thrills. By sharing inspiring tales and their desire for protecting our planet’s wild places, they hope listeners will be inspired to take a walk into the wild and create meaningful adventures of their own.

Winner of the British Book Awards, TV & Film Book of the Year, 2005.

In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth. It is a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1,800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China. Penetrated but never conquered, it remains the world's most majestic natural barrier, a magnificent wilderness that shapes the history and politics of Asia to this day.

LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS 'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph 'A history of the opium poppy, which probes how the drug trade has...

"Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In Dark Star Safari, Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town—down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most beautiful—and often life-threatening—landscapes on earth.

Yet familiar though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain. In Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography. Armchair travel will never be the same again.

THE GREAT NORTH ROAD is a journey as satisfying for the armchair traveller as the long-distance cyclist. Enriched with history, humour and insight, it’s a tribute to Britain and the endless appeal of the open road.

AS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS BREAKFAST SHOW - "It's not just for runners. It's for life! It's a great story." When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was...

Brought to you by Penguin. No sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later...

The author travels from London to Baghdad by train, following the route of an identical journey made by Agatha Christie in 1928. Many of the countries Eames passes through have been deeply troubled in recent years. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, The 8.55 to Baghdad is the journey of a lifetime.

Two Brits, George and Mark, set off from New York City to explore the back roads of America. In this calamity-ridden travel tale, George sets out in true clichéd fashion to discover the real America. Throw in plenty of run-ins with the police, rapidly dwindling finances, and Josephine - the worst car in the world - and you have all the ingredients for a classic American road trip. Will George and Mark make it all the way to California? And then there is Rachel, George's girlfriend, left back in England.

This is the story of Shane and Timothy Spall and their Dutch barge, The Princess Matilda. After a summer on the Thames they head out to sea with only a road atlas and a vast amount of ignorance - and it is absolutely terrifying! A decade before, Tim had been diagnosed with acute leukaemia and was given only days to live. Shocked at how life can pass you by, they decided that if and when Tim got better, they would buy a boat. The Spalls' adventures have already been the subject of two BBC4 series.

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt reads his own account of his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City. Frank...

Different Natures takes you on three journeys. Each gives an honest and passionate insight into the evolution of a compulsive traveler. Looking for direction with the wrong eyes spawned Graham’s lust for wandering. The miles cleared his vision, and the hunger for longer distance grows with an insatiable appetite for new experiences.

In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong heads north in to an ever more hostile Arctic winter to explore the farthest reaches of the globe. In an epic journey, he navigates some of the Earth’s toughest terrain, first travelling through the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, then on...

Canoeing the Congo narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo River in war-torn Central Africa. It was a historic 'first descent' from the true source in the highlands of Zambia. Just short of 3,000 miles long, the Congo River is the eighth longest in the world and the deepest river in the world, with a flow rate second only to the Amazon. Along the way, Phil encountered numerous waterfalls, huge rapids, man-eating crocodiles, hippos, aggressive snakes...