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Faraway investigates why distant places captivate us more than what's near. Host Celeste Skye explores the psychology of unreachable destinations, how distance deepens relationships, and why we build imaginary worlds to satisfy our longing for elsewhere. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Celeste Skye takes listeners through the world's most captivating seaports, from hidden fjord villages to Great Lakes gateways. Discover how these maritime hubs shape global travel, commerce, and the romance of crossing seas. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Celeste Skye takes you inside frequent flyer programs, where miles accumulate, status tiers unlock perks, and loyalty becomes a lifestyle. Each episode explores the psychology, strategies, and shifting realities of constant travel. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Celeste Skye examines what it means to live temporarily somewhere new—those liminal periods between tourist and local. Through intimate stories and thoughtful reflection, each episode unpacks a different aspect of temporary belonging, exploring how brief stays reshape our understanding of home, identity, and place. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Celeste Skye invites you into Disney parks after dark, where late-night arrivals unlock empty queues, glowing alien worlds, and moonlit adventures most guests never experience. Discover theme park magic when crowds fade and the kingdom becomes yours under the stars. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Celeste Skye examines why we're always longing to be somewhere else, exploring the psychology behind wanderlust, escapism, and the persistent feeling that life is happening in the wrong place. Through intimate storytelling and honest reflection, discover whether the ache for elsewhere is guiding you home or leading you astray. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Celeste Skye explores where travel and sleep collide—from jet lag science rewiring your body clock, to legal battles over sleeping en route, to lucid dreamers journeying across continents without leaving their beds. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Celeste Skye explores duty-free commerce: glittering airport shopping empires, billion-dollar trade loopholes, and high-stakes battles between governments and merchants over taxation and global retail. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Celeste Skye explores spaces where maps end and mystery begins, revealing humanity's drive to venture beyond the known. From Arctic passages and ocean depths to virtual worlds, each episode uncovers why blank spaces terrify and seduce us. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Celeste Skye takes you inside jet set culture, from its 1950s golden age to today's ultra-private sky lounges. Explore how elite travelers transformed movement into identity, speed into status, and destinations into stages for glamorous lives. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Celeste Skye examines the complex emotions of leaving—whether it's a place, person, or old identity. Through intimate storytelling and psychological insight, each episode explores pre-travel anxiety, intense travel connections, and the unsettling emptiness that follows departure. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Jean Ajalbert nous entraîne au cœur d’un pays qui se dévoile par touches sensibles et regard attentif. En tableaux vivants, il capte l’âme de l’Auvergne: ses paysages, ses voix, son rythme, la simplicité du quotidien et la force discrète d’un territoire fidèle à lui-même. Entre chronique et confidence, sa langue précise et chaleureuse fait surgir atmosphères, rencontres et souvenirs, pour une immersion délicate dans une région qui se raconte autant qu’elle se traverse. À écouter comme une marche lente, curieuse et émerveillée, vers l’intimité d’une terre.

La historia épica de dos amigos que recorrieron uno de los caminos más difíciles y exigentes del mundo: el GRAN CAMINO DEL HIMALAYA Sin experiencia en alta montaña ni la ayuda de guías o porteadores, Sergi Unanue y su compañero se lanzaron a una locura que muy pocos se atreven siquiera a...

De Pompeya a Maradona y de Caravaggio a la Costa Amalfitana. Tras recorrer los Pirineos en su anterior libro, Kris Ubach nos invita ahora a perdernos en Nápoles, la vibrante y caótica ciudad del sur de Italia. Entre fachadas desconchadas, murales dedicados a Maradona y altares callejeros, la...

'GREAT' Independent 'TERRIFIC' Guardian 'WONDERFUL' Time Out 'QUALITY' Mail on Sunday 'DEFINITIVE' FourFourTwo Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Award Featured in FourFourTwo's list of 'The 10 Best Football Books Ever' Featured in Esquire's 'Best Sports Books Ever Written' Throughout the...

La Storia e le storie di montagna come non le avete mai sentite raccontare. Massimo Somaglino, Aida Talliente e Chiara Donada leggono gli articoli della storica rivista della SAF, In Alto.

Paris—city of love, food, culture—is steeped in a rich history known the world over. From the creative minds of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who both frequented the world-famous Moulin Rouge at the turn of the twentieth century, to the many historic changes that saw Paris expand into the city of twenty arrondissements that residents and tourists flock to every year. In A Brief History of Paris, historian Cecil Black entertainingly details the stories behind the culture, locations, architecture, people, food and more that keeps visitors enchanted.

Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union...

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Brought to you by Penguin. In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his...