Tom Chesshyre joins Laura to discuss some of the highlights of his 25-year career as a travel journalist as he releases his tenth book. Tom started out as a sports journalist before realising he wasn't particularly excited by reporting on footballers' injuries for the rest of his career. Soon after, a holiday of a lifetime to South Africa turned into his first big travel story as he followed the infamous Barmy Army around the cricket matches out there. Now, after two decades of working...

Fetish cafe’s and fantasy dining in Japan, Goth fashion and subcultures around the World, and spooky travel destinations with La Carmina. Kicking off season two with Laura this week is nobody more fitting to come on just before Halloween; it’s travel journalist and TV presenter La Carmina, who specialises in Goth subcultures, alternative travel and all things Japan.  La Carmina started her blog about Goth fashion and travel just as a creative outlet while she was studying law in 2007. But...

S1, Ep8 This week’s episode is packed with adventure as New York-based travel writer Katherine Parker-Magyar talks about her exciting career.  From a champagne breakfast in the Nepali jungle to  going off-grid on an eco-tour in the Amazon, her first travel assignment in Hawaii, and sleeping in the world's highest lodges in Peru - Katie has some amazing stories to share. Katie’s travels are always driven by the people she meets and having that deeply immersive experience.  As a...

S1, Ep 7: Janey McGill credits her father with her sense of adventure.  Since she was a little girl, she's always had a love for the great outdoors and horses, and for a short while, she was raised in Vegas. A nasty accident while riding meant she was forced to give up her career in the military, but she hasn't let that hinder her travel plans.   From moving to France to nanny a blind dog and several horses, to trekking for 28 days across the desert,  Janey's travel tales are certainly...

S1, Ep 6: Steve Brock is the author of Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips, which is a guide to how to travel more meaningfully based upon his 40 years of travelling to more than 50 countries. There are so many forms of travel out there and everybody’s idea of "travel" and what they want to gain from it is different.  Steve’s book acts as a guide to travelling more purposefully and travelling in a deeper way. Like his book, this episode is packed with a mixture of deep...

S1, Ep5: Ex-Emirates air hostess-turned-Dubai expat Adele Goddard was given a sense of adventure from a very young age by her parents who loved jetting off to far-flung destination. She was an air hostess for five years with Emirates, during which time she was based in Dubai and travelling all over the world.  After leaving the company and moving home to the UK, she decided she missed it too much and now lives in Dubai with her husband and young son, with her own travel business. Adele...

S1, Ep 4: American 'serial expat' and work-abroad expert, Kat Smith, is this week’s guest.  She tells us what is meant by a “serial expat”, how she and her husband met and the realities of being a travel couple, why getting a job abroad can be easier than you think - even in a remote village in Ecuador you’ve never heard of, and how to convince your significant other to go travelling if they’re not so adventurous. All of that and more from Kat, who’s been travelling for 8  years and she’s...

S1, Ep.3 British Documentary producer-director, Bella Falk, has been travelling the world for 17 years making history and science programmes for the biggest TV channels. From diamond mines in Namibia to eating ant eggs for dinner in Mexico, she’s experienced some extraordinary things on her travels - and that’s just her day job. When Bella isn't travelling  making TV shows, she's, well, travelling (probably at a more leisurely pace) and populating her blog with stunning photographs and her...

Season 1, episode 2 Laura speaks to award-winning travel photographer and writer, Yulia Denisyuk, who turned her back on a six-figure salary in the corporate world to pursue her dreams of becoming a travel photographer. It was a big risk, but one which paid off. Yulia reveals what it's really like to work as a travel photographer and writer, her favourite assignments, and how you have to make things happen, you can't "wait to be discovered", if you want to make it in the industry. Yulia...

Travel and mental health, pulling a sickie from half way across the world, being a national newspaper columnist but not being able to afford the bus, and the healing powers of El Camino de Santiago. Financial services consultant turned travel writer Paul Thomas Bell is this week's guest. Laura speaks to fellow broadcaster and travel writer, Paul Thomas Bell.  He talks pulling a sickie from the other side of the world, trekking twice across El Camino de Santiago, and how travel has been with...