Action Packed Travel
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."
Episodes
Freelance public relations consultant, Paddy Daly, took the plunge and moved his family and his business to the other side of the English Channel.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
We're re-running this popular episode about Harry Mitsidis, who has travelled to every country in the world...at least twice. He's the founder of a website called NomadMania.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
The quaint medieval community of Lacock might seem familiar.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Alice Gully of Aardvark Safaris takes a journey back in time to São Tomé and Príncipe.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
This week we're in Val d'Isère in the French Alps, exploring the complicated subject of ski and boot rental.
Music © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Dick's Tea Bar in Val d'Isère once captured the imagination of generations of visitors.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Minty Clinch, who died this month, was a good friend of ours for more years than we can remember. She was a fine writer and witty to the very end. We have decided to re-release an interview we did with her five years ago. The episode is about her adventures on horseback to some of the wildest corners of the world. To Minty's many friends: we hope you enjoy listening.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
We're giving this episode another airing. It's what might best be described as a rather long bike ride.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
One of the first tour operators to give away the company to their staff. Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Because this means so much to us, we've repeated the episode! The Somerset town of Frome has seen many battles in its history, from the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 to a campaign to win Packsaddle Community Fields in 2025.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
This week we're talking to Jay Stevens, CEO of Wayfairer Travel, whose passion is snowboarding in Japan.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Zoe Langley-Wathen walked 630 miles around the coastline of Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset – and then she wrote a book about it.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
The Somerset town of Frome has seen many battles in its history, from the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 to a campaign to win Packsaddle Community Fields in 2025.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Forty years ago, Patrick Nash took a ten-month walk through the heart of Africa. We talked to him about the journey that inspired his latest book, Shots Across the Water.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Jean McNeill, author of Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet, is an award-winning Canadian-born writer, the first-ever female director of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and a professionally qualified safari guide.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Scottish explorer and Arabist Alice Morrison decided to take a long hike to talk to the ordinary people, particularly the women who live there.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Valentine Warner is a celebrity chef who's made no less nine TV series, and has written five books. He likes to cook in remote and beautiful corners of the world. His new venture, Kitchen in the Wild, is set in a private safari lodge with views of Mount Kenya.
Music: © Barney & Izzi Hardy
Travel writer and author of My Family and Other Enemies, Mary Novakovich, explores her homeland, including the hinterland of Croatia most foreigners never visit.
Music: © Barney and Izzi Hardy
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
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 Hardy
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