Travels with John Smith
This podcast is about the 8 years John Smith and I lived in Wuhan, China and travels to other places inside and outside of China during during that time. It is read by me, Patti Fedrau (Layne).
Episodes
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 60 year 9 (2020)
Peru Part 3
Machu Picchu, Cusco Carnival
-train ride beside the Urubamba River
-eating guinea pig in Aguas Calientes
-Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu
-a Book called, “Turn Right at Machu Picchu”
-Walking around Machu Picchu
-Market choices in Cusco
-Rainbow Flag
-One advantage of altitude
-dancers twirling
-Spraying foam for fun
-Refuge above the square
-Mayhem below
-discovery
- like secret age...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 59 year 9 (2019-2020)
Peru Part 2
Arequipa and Cusco
-Another Plaza de Armas
-Hotel with a view
-Zig Zag is delicious
-The Cathedral that kept coming back
-A room for a jewel thief
-white volcanic rock in a quarry
-under the charm of some alpacas
-a mummy named Juanita
-potato tasting
-Monastery village
-Cusco introduction
-Altitude sickness is real
-Cathedral built on top of a temple
-starting to spread
-cheeky ...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 58 year 9 (2020)
Peru Part 1
Lima, Trujillo and Huanchaco
-Lima’s Ceviche
-The cliffs above the Pacific Ocean
-Larcomar shopping mall
-Barranco art
-The Larco museum and erotic art
-Peruvian Hairless
-1st class bus ride
-Steve and Nancy show us around
-Huanchaco living
-Purple jellyfish
-Tacu Tacu my new fav food
-Chan Chan mud palace
-Trujillo’s kilometre long mosaic wall
-Temples of the sun and moon
-Deserted...
-Thank you
-An apology
-further dates to listen
-Anything is possible
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 57 year 9 (2019-2020)
London, Canada and Ecuador
-cool places in London
-back in Canada
-finding a place to live
-stuff in a truck from BC
-boxes, painting and settling
-planning a trip for Chinese NY
-Xmas with family
-1st hearing about the virus in Wuhan
-masks or not?
-Boutique hotel in Quito
-Old town Unesco site
-Eating chicken with the locals
-A volcano where people live and crops grow
-neighbourhood wat...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 56 year 8 (2019)
Berlin and Lisbon
(We love Europe)
-Checkpoint Charlie
-buying a piece of the wall
-The ‘Fraternal kiss’
-What the Brandenburg Gate represents
-Naked Entertainment in the Pariser Place
-German Pretzels
-View from the River Spree
-The Cement maze memorial
-victims of the Holocaust
-Topography of Terror
-Bikini Berlin Mall
-Buddy Bear Project
-The post office
-Naked fountain
-a steep climb
-1st vi...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 55 year 8 (2019)
Bangkok, Beijing and Warsaw
(Food and Fun in 3 places)
-School ends and a surprise trip
-jamming in Bangkok
-shopping at Chatuchak weekend market
-Being a tourist with Jeanine
-Standing Buddha
-Beijing Duck with Mizar
-Grandma’s Hutong
-Mizar’s music
-Noodle heaven
-Warsaw airport bus
-Hard Rock Cafe Warsaw
-Tallest Building in Poland
-Freeloading on the bus
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 54 year 8 (2019)
Zhangjiajie, Wuhan
-crazy rides
-mountain refuge
-free entry
-Zhangjiajie Avatar mountains
-hiding from the monkeys
-KTV sad
-Grandma’s food
-pool with a view
-bad line up
-very very bad line up
-Simon and the ‘guitar boys’
-Anything is possible
-eating favourite foods
-saying goodbye
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 53 year 8 (2019)
Chinese New Year with Pat and Lyle
Kou Lipe and Kou Lanta, Thailand
-boat trip to Kou Lipe
-customs on a beach
-a cabin in paradise
-Sunrise
-relaxing
-Saying goodbye
-no peeking
-cabanas in nature
-bicycles
-refuge from the rain
-beach life
-disco taxi
-visit with Gabby and family
-Dawn Marie and I get our feet nibbled
-Old Town mishap
-give this up?
-meeting the Prime Minister of Thailand
-change...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 52 year 8 (2019)
Chinese New Year with Pat and Lyle
Penang and Langkawi, Malaysia
-The museum hotel George Town
-Lyle and a new friend
-third eye ceremony
-Peranakan mansion
-Captain China’s place
-red enveloppe
-gigantic reclining Buddha
-a little history
-booking hotels online
-Langkawi beach and a big jellyfish
-night market and Malaysian food
-Langkawi bridge in the sky
-details about the bridge
-foot s...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 51 year 8 (2019)
Chinese New Year with Pat and Lyle
Hanoi and Ha Long Bay
-learning to survive the motorbikes
-Old Quarter and it’s sights
-King Roti bun discovery
-cousins in the market
-Vietnam’s New Year
-Fireworks above the big square
-Floating on Ha Long Bay
-Lord of the Ring cave
- fishing hut on the beach
-floating fishing village ride
-South China sea currant
-Salt water Pearls
-Hanoi Puppet show on wat...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 50 year 8 (2019)
Pat and Lyle in China
Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing
-Kung Pao Chicken Chinese
-Yellow Crane and Taxis
-Tailor Street and Dumplings
-Walking and Foot massages
-Hu Bu Lane and Doupi
-Han Show
-Shanghai fake market shake down
-never enough jewellery
-Beijing Duck
-The Wall with Drunken Doctors
-Haggling on my birthday
-Tiananmen Square cold
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 49 year 8 (2018-2019)
Shenzhen, Krabi and Wuhan
-meeting Wayne Gretzky
-Typhoon in Shenzhen
-Holed up in the hotel
-Preparing for the unknown
-disaster passes us by
-fighting for space at the train station
-Bangkok Cabbage and Condoms
-Krabi view
-Sacred Penis Cave
-Snorkelling in Italian and Spanish
-Eats on the beac and feet in the sand
-They want to cancel Halloween
-The Teahouse guitar boys
-Tony, The World Se...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 48 year 7 (2018)
Dunes, Dubai and Wuhan
-dune bashing
-belly dancer
-Bedouin camp
-The Burj Khalifa view
-Gold souk
-expensive tea
-tallest building in the world
- fountains and desert
-$24,000 for a room
-The Palm Jumeirah
-Women only
-I wanna live in a Mall
-Dubai culture
-‘no skin rules’
-writing a song with Key
-Simon and his music
-The Teahouse
-Prom and 1 BC forever!
-Hothouse blues
-An arranged marriage
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 47 year 7 (2018)
Brunei and Kuala Lumpur
-The Sultan of Brunei and his country
-The Sultan’s house and stuff
-our hotel is like a palace
-losing my mind and my shoes
-proboscis monkeys
-stilt villages above the river
-visiting mosques
-no kissing in the taxi
-2 monitor lizards in the goldfish pond
-meeting ex-pats at the pool
-living in Brunei if you are foreign
-going to the parade on independence day
-the S...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 46 year 7 (2018)
Birthday Moon and Myanmar
- Snow Day
- Blue Moon, Blood Moon and Eclipse Birthday
- Cowboys in Bangkok
- Hotel like home
- Credit card blocked
- Can’t change our money
- Life on the train in Yangon
- Buying a ticket isn’t easy
- The beautiful Shwedagon Pagoda
- Don’t call it Burma
- thankaka cream and other market discoveries
- Orwell’s Burma Days
- guides and drivers
- a little bit of politics
- lo...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 45 (2017-2018)
End year 6, beginning year 7
-Xiamen beach
-Hanging out in Gulangyu
-Welcome dinner with Jianping
-back in Shanghai forest
-Wuhan changes
-Jamming in Prison
-Staycation
-Snow Queen and Colonel Saunders
-Kota Kinabalu beach
-6 foot lizard
-New Years is not what it used to be
-Making the decision to stay one more year
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 44 year 6 (2017)
Golden Triangle, India
-Sikh temple is cooking
-new friend Maninder
-poverty
-Taj Mahal
-the Emperor and his wives
-Pink Palace of wind
-The Maharajahs
-the women of Amber Fort
-cows
-Holy Pushkar
-mad ride to the Mosque
-using the bag in the plane
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 43 year 6 (2017)
Maldives, Sri Lanka part 2
The colour of Paradise
-swimming with a barracuda
-3 million dollar sand dune in the middle of the ocean
-Hulu Male
-birthday dinner hospitality
-no bikinis on the beach
-the tourist beach
-day trip to Paradise
-snorkelling under our bungalow
-sharks of every size
-upgrade to more paradise
-leopards and Pati’s
-moonstones and cinnamon
-virgin tea
-turtles and fisherma...
Travels with John Smith
Chapter 42 year 6 (2016-2017)
Yoda and Sri Lankan Elephants
-dressing like Yoda
-Leonard Cohen ‘leaves the table’
-temples
-trains and tuk tuks
-The Penthouse by the sea
-water monitor in the floating market
-drinking lime and ginger on a hot day
-dizzy for Sigiriya
-wild elephants
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