You should have been there

Enjoy some series highlights in this, our last podcast : evocative travel sounds, Europe's best railway journey, a poignant reminder of the pandemic period and how to appreciate Motorway Service Areas.

All about the humble day trip and its many guises, featuring an interview with Rick Blyth from the extreme day trips website.

The oldest of the routes to Santiago de Compostela is becoming increasingly popular with adventurous modern pilgrims. Simon Calder and I tried out the challenging central section.

A remix of previous stories from listeners, reliving their formative journeys and taking us from the English Channel to the Limpopo River via 1992 St Petersburg.Thanks to Richard Goring for the photo of the Bristol Superfreighter, licensed for use under creative Commons.

Guest Simon Calder and I attempt to update Odysseus' challenges for travel in 2026, with the EES system and car hire firms as new versions of Cyclops and Circe the sorceress! The painting of Odysseus on Calypso's island is by Johann Heinrich Beck (ca 1820)

Professor of philosophy, Emily Thomas, is today's guest. Our discussion includes the importance of cannibalism for John Locke's theories, an eighteenth century pile-on involving Mary Wollstonecraft's life and Emily's thoughts on her recent trip to Malawi. The photo of Malawian rock art is shown courtesy of UNESCO

Dr Andrew Stevenson, senior lecturer in psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University discusses his book "The Psychology of Travel" published by Routledge. Types of traveller and different ways of travelling are on the agenda.

Discover declassified train carriages, how to walk in the shoes of others and enjoy a race across Europe to Leipzig. And Simon leaves the podcast.

Aided and abetted by listeners, we present some suggestions of how to navigate Paris, where to stay and what to see. The accordion music was provided by Accordion-music-clean.wav by eyenorth -- https://freesound.org/s/482213/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

We discuss football journeys, near and far, and hear from fans who have stretched the limits of credible travel to get to a match abroad.