Travel Chats Podcast

Introducing our mini series of hacks for the every day traveller. We can't wait to share our tricks of the trade with you.

Ever wondered what the best day of the week is to buy flight tickets? We're talking prices, cutting costs, versus the value you get from a more traditional airline experience.

Listen now to start saving pennies on your flight tickets. For other tips on travelling you can listen to our full-length episodes...

Listen now to hear about kayaking in Austin, going to Ryan Holiday's book store, watching the Dallas Mavericks, cruising in a Tesla and eating copious amounts of Texan Mexican food.

This is not your regular backpacker travel chat, so we hope you've got your first class tickets ready (not that Arti travelled 1st class).

If you're looking for a slightly more luxurious travel trip then this is the episode for you. For all our r...

Does slower travelling count as travel? If you hardly see anything does it count?

Do you love Rome? Arti says she doesn't dislike it.

We cover Easter in Italy, accidentally seeing most landmarks in Rome without trying (you'll need to hear which road Arti talks about), plus she found a quiet spot in Rome!

Quick things we cover:

• Lamb is the main dish for Easter
• Duolingo 10 mins a day gets you to intermediate level!
• Rom...

On this fun episode Arti and Danielle talk about the travel resuming across the globe and the world opening up to travellers from all over.

This travel chat is packed with some golden moments:

• Tips on anxiety travelling during the ongoing pandemic
• Varied restrictions from country-to-country
• The deal with vaccines

Listen now to hear what we have planned for the year!

You can find us on Instagram @TravelChatsPodca...

October 2021, Arti had originally intended to work from and travel the US after negotiating with her employers. But America closed its border again due to COVID-19 and she was forced to decide between not travelling and wasting that negotiation, or still travelling! 

Listen to find out how she re-planned everything in 5 days for a 5 week trip the second Kenya opened its borders. This includes all COVID-19 paperwork, tests, ...

Our first young, talented and driven 11 year old guest, I'm so proud to introduce Yuvraj Rajput. My nephew, but better known as Kenya's 3 x Autocross National Champion, Yuvraj talks us through the Big 5 at the National Parks, tells us stories about wildlife in Kenya, and he makes me jealous with his long list of visited destinations.

Danielle couldn't be there for this chat, but we discussed the format and questions beforehand t...

Emma and Amir joined Arti for a deep dive into their last minute holiday to Spain, when the UK was running their traffic light system during the pandemic. Both are from the USA and living in the UK as students. They originally met in the US and have a bulk of travel experience individually. We can't wait for you to get to know them a little more and hear how they planned this mid-pandemic trip to Spain from the UK.

Arti spoke t...

Marcus spoke to us about Texas, driving cars, making friends with strangers and gate crashing family meals. He’s a childhood friend whose idea of travelling is fun, adventurous and daring... 

Listen for hilarious travel hacks & a more serious discussion on abandoning travels at the announcement of COVID-19.

Let us know over on @travelchatspodcast socials what you all think of this chat with Marcus.

Our next guest is Niall who has been travelling for the last 4 years, with a short stint back home in the UK. 

Niall did a year in an American university, which peaked his interest about the history of different countries and led to an epic adventure in South America and Central America... on his way to Australia. 

We talked to him about life on the road, his standout experiences, solo travel versus with his mate, a...

Our most reflective (and shortest?) episode yet! It has been a strange year in general and especially for the travel industry. Here's our round-up of life in 2020 without travelling.

Surprisingly, it's still a massive part of our lives, despite not getting on a plane. We hope listening to this can help you reflect on the year you've just had, but also how you're going to travel in the future; the things you want to do differentl...

Hosts Arti and Danielle catch up with Kesvi Mistry, a friend they met when travelling Australia!

Kesvi, also known as Love From Kesvi on her YouTube channel, is our first guest and she has lots of interesting insight to share.

We covered:

- Living, working and being an extra for TV & film in Canada

- Milking cows in Australia

- Solo travel... even in countries where you don't speak the language

- Travelling during the pan...

Camp life, national parks, meeting strangers... this travel chat about America with Danielle spans 5 years and tonnes of experiences. We get the lowdown on how to get into summer camp or if you're looking to be spontaneous, how to book your Campervan and get going.

Listen to find out more about Danielle's fave city, waterfall and other fire-round revelations.

Plus, have you met someone who has had as many near-death experienc...

Host Arti talks about her time living in Australia, how she planned to move there and which animals are going to kill you. We're talking speeding up when you see a kangaroo on the road...

Have a listen to find out her sneaky hostel hack, how she coped with farm work and what she thinks about the easy two years Australians have to move to the UK in comparison to backpackers in Oz required to do farm work. An honest listen for tho...

Hosts Arti and Danielle introduce themselves, shared travel experiences and their life-changing travel hacks.

Countries covered in this episode:

• Sri Lanka
• Australia
• Italy
• India
• America

To connect with your hosts follow them on Instagram at Travel Chats Podcast and get involved with all the travel chat.

Arti Rajput - Talking about travel writing, backpacking and living overseas on Instagram @CLCLTravel, plus browse her ...