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In this thrilling road trip from "Peking to Paris", a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down. In May 2007, leaving China’s Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It’s guided by one Dina Bennett, the world’s least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong?

A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic - survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else - until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations - a form of communication extremely rare in nature.

After 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories. Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love...

A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made...

Annette is the travel-loving storyteller behind the brand, From Annette with Love. Annette is an award-winning content creator, writer, and advocate. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Women’s Health, Condé Nast Traveler, and more. For nearly a decade this fat activist has been encouraging plus size travelers to see the world now, not to wait to lose weight. She founded the platform Fat Girls Traveling and hosts inclusive trips and retreats all over the globe. Five years of traveling full-time as a digital nomad brought Annette to Asia, North and Central ...

Aloha, future newlyweds! Get ready to embark on a journey to plan your perfect island wedding on Oahu. Join us for fun tips, local insights, and everything you need to make your Hawaii wedding or elopement dreams come true. Let the wedding planning begin!

Maryland Heights is more than a dot on the map outside St. Louis. It’s a community full of great people, hidden gems, good food, and new experiences waiting to happen. This podcast explores what makes Maryland Heights, Missouri special. Come get to know it with us.

What makes love feel different in Paris? The Parisian Love Code reveals the secrets of French romance—how the French date, flirt, connect, argue, and say je t’aime.Hosted by Cécilia Jourdan of @hellofrench and created by the Ritz Paris, this podcast explores the cultural codes behind love in Paris: from first dates and meaningful conversation to coffee rituals, food, desire, and emotional intimacy. Each episode offers a thoughtful, modern look at why romance in France feels effortless yet intentional and how these nuances shape lasting connections.Set against the timeless elegance of the ...

What makes Chicago one of the greatest cities in the world? The people who call it home.All For the Love of Chicago dives into the neighborhoods, creators, and changemakers who make this city what it is.Produced and hosted by Choose Chicago — your official guide to the city. Visit choosechicago.com for more, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to To Love All of Me — my heartfelt journey of healing, courage, and learning to live fully from the heart.I’m Bodil, a Sexual Healer and Heart Path Guide, originally from Sweden but now living on the magical little island of Gili Air.This podcast is me sharing my real life — the fears, the breakthroughs, the messy parts, the magic — and what it truly looks like to follow your heart even when the path seems uncertain.If you’re ready to love all of who you are and create a life that feels true to your soul… you’re in the right place.Instagram: @heartfeltwithbodilWebsite: ...

Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing. Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport – call it what you want – they have felt the pull of the water ever since they...

When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual vacation tryst turns into a passionate, transatlantic love affair, as they rendezvous in London, Marrakech, Milan, the Aeolian Islands, and San Francisco.

Read by the author, Bobby Bolton. Join Bobby Bolton and his trusted dog, Red, as they drive from Wigan across the world – and fall in love with life again . . . When Bobby’s eleven-year relationship broke down, he thought he’d hit rock bottom. Then a bad economic turn and a run of unlucky...

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024 Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards 'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.'...

In Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter's Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God, having lived a life of plenty in suburban America, Lisa Samson and her eighteen-year-old daughter, Ty, thought they were traveling to Africa to minister to the people and chronicle the AIDS crisis...

'I would be most unhappy to think that any part of this memoir should be cut on grounds of 'decency', for those bits are essential....' So begins the lively true story of aristocrat and travel writer Roderic Fenwick Owen. Born in 1921, Fenwick Owen had an extraordinary life, which careered between some of the biggest moments in history and took him to the ends of the earth, meeting (and even living with) some of the 20th century's most well-known people along the way, including Eisenhower, Jackson Pollock, Christopher Lee and Sean Connery.

A charming, funny and glamorous memoir and love-story, about a summer in 1957 in Venice, working for an aristocratic Italian family. In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her...

Shining a spotlight on the people, places, & events that make Central NY an amazing place to live ♥️

Come along for a ride with Always Eat The Weird Stuff, heavily inked flash fiction about finding yourself, even stuck in transit. From underground raves to solo travels and the eclectic streets and alleys of Melbourne, these tight prose chapters explore themes of risk taking, truth-seeking, love, and the quest for belonging.

In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.