Action Packed Travel

Felice & Peter Hardy

Welcome to Action Packed Travel! Our podcast features amazing travel stories...without having to go anywhere. The episodes are interviews with people who've been inspired by their adventures. They're also full of information and useful links, all of which you can find on our Show Notes. Our podcast can be used for future travel ideas and plans for the days when we can explore the world again! About us: we're Felice & Peter Hardy and we’ve spent half a lifetime travelling to just about every corner of the world, making a living as travel writers out of what we like doing best – and that’s skiing, biking, hiking, eating, exploring, city breaks, seaside…and a whole lot more. We've had lots of favourable reviews, such as: "What an interesting and diverse world you are opening up for us in a nicely laid back way. Very informative and some are also wonderful archive material." read less

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Joanna Penn's Pilgrimage

Joanna Penn's Pilgrimage

Author, podcaster, and creative entrepreneur Joanna Penn is a best-selling and award-winning writer of horror, thrillers, dark fantasy and travel memoirs. She's also taken up going on pilgrimages.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

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Joanna Penn's Pilgrimage

Joanna Penn's Pilgrimage

Author, podcaster, and creative entrepreneur Joanna Penn is a best-selling and award-winning writer of horror, thrillers, dark fantasy and travel memoirs. She's also taken up going on pilgrimages.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

A Ride Across America

A Ride Across America

Simon Parker has cycled in this election year across the whole of America, from the northwest coast of Washington state, all the way to the most south easterly tip of Florida. He's written a book about it. Music: Barney & Izzi HardySupport the show

Ride Like A Gaucho

Ride Like A Gaucho

Sophia Ashe, hooked on ponies and horses since childhood, joined a team of gauchos at a ranch in Argentina and wrote a book about her experiences. Music: © Barney & Izzi HardySupport the show

Bletchley Park Revisited

Bletchley Park Revisited

Bletchley Park is a country mansion 35 minutes by train northwest of London, where Alan Turing and his team of cryptanalysts cracked the complicated codes of the German Enigma machine. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Loneliness of a Long-Distance Sailor

Loneliness of a Long-Distance Sailor

How do you survive on your own for days on end? So far, seven women have completed the Vendée Globe, the toughest round-the-world race. Joan Mulloy, a brand ambassador for Helly Hansen and a mother of two from the west coast of Ireland, is determined to become the eighth woman to compete and the first to win it. Music: © Barney & Izzy Hardy Support the show

The Whale in the Living Room

The Whale in the Living Room

Veteran underwater cameraman, John Ruthven, talks to us about his book and a lifetime of exploring the deep. He is also a producer of Sir David Attenborough's The Blue Planet, a zoologist, film director, writer, editor and stylist.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

A Century of Cottar's Safaris

A Century of Cottar's Safaris

This week we're in Kenya talking to safari camp owner, Calvin Cotter, whose family came here from the Great Plains of the Midwest in the years before World War One. Support the show

The Ultimate Childcare for Skiers

The Ultimate Childcare for Skiers

This week, we're exploring the fraught subject of taking small children skiing for the very first time. We're going to start and end with a warning to listeners: If you want to book a nanny service-inclusive holiday for the coming winter, there is really no time to waste. You need to book right now. Support the show

The Secret Resort of Le Grand-Bornand

The Secret Resort of Le Grand-Bornand

Le Grand-Bornand is not a name like Morzine or Chamonix that trips easily off the tongue when we mention skiing, but it's typically and traditionally French. Support the show

North American Dream in the French Alps

North American Dream in the French Alps

It's the twentieth anniversary of Arc 1950. The resort began as the idea of Canadian resort developer, Intrawest, creator of Mont-Tremblant in Quebec and manager of some 20 other resorts in North America – from Whistler to Mammoth. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Wild Travels In Africa and Asia

Wild Travels In Africa and Asia

This week we're talking to someone who specialises in creating holidays that are entirely different – taking you to places you probably thought were out of bounds to all tourists. Support the show

From Fjord to Snowfield

From Fjord to Snowfield

We caught up with Rory Dixon who organises skiing-touring trips off a boat in Norway and Greenland, life-changing adventures to distant corners of the world.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Jess the Horse Nomad

Jess the Horse Nomad

Jess Isbrecht is a digital nomad who travels full time with her horses. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

The World's Most Travelled Man

The World's Most Travelled Man

Harry Mitsidis has travelled to every country in the world, at least twice. He's the founder of a website called NomadMania.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Walking to the South Pole

Walking to the South Pole

To discover a little of what former Royal Marine, Sam Cox, will experience living alone at -30°C, podcaster Peter Hardy spends time in an industrial freezer.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

An American in Paris

An American in Paris

No, not the 1951 movie starring Gene Kelly and Lesley Caron... Jay Swanson moved from the USA and now lives in Paris where he calls himself: 'a YouTuber, writer, and puppy wrangler.' He publishes a guide to the city called Paris in my Pocket.Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

The Van Life Revisited

The Van Life Revisited

We're on the road exploring a thriving sector of the travel industry that continues to explode in popularity across Europe. Music © Barney and Izzi Hardy Support the show

Wild Skiing in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan

Wild Skiing in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan

Untamed Borders sets out to satisfy the hunger of that rare breed of traveller who's already been to the far corners of the earth, got the T-shirt but still wants more. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Chefs, Cars and Skiing

Chefs, Cars and Skiing

This week, we're talking to travel guru, Amin Momen, whose London-based company Momentum Ski organises bespoke holidays. Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy Support the show

Extreme Travel Dreams

Extreme Travel Dreams

Turn your wildest travel dreams into reality, with superyacht voyages to the end of the earth, intrepid journeys to deserts, jungles, polar regions and the oceans.Music © Barney & Izzi HardySupport the show