The Nostalgic Vagabond

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Morgane Thöni. 

Morgane is from France but moved to Canada a couple of years ago where she works as a brewer in a rural brewery, kind of in the middle of nowhere, like a lot of Canada one could argue. Being French, I expected Morgane to be into wines (6:20) but Morgane is very much into her beers. Perhaps spending a lot of time in Germany studying, travelling...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Sixtina from sixmilesaway.com her website and blog. 

Sixtina says that travelling and living in diverse countries has helped shape her into the person she is today. Evolving from a self-proclaimed rebellious teenager, intolerant and stubborn, who wanted things her own way to a more rounded, simple-living woman who speaks multiple languages, is more tolerant, ...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Valentina, aka "Kooky" from KookyLovestoTravel.com. 

She is a digital nomad, writer, and content creator with a big passion for photography and an even bigger passion for life. 

Valentina left her home in Croatia years ago and has since lived in three European countries and travelled through 13 or more. In this way, we are from a similar experience. ...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Emma Krebs. 

Emma is a lovely, friendly Canadian girl. She's still in her early twenties, so I am old in comparison and find myself sometimes today referring to people of a similar university age, like Emma is, as "kids" but not Emma. She has a wisdom, maturity, and a level of self-esteem as well as common sense far beyond her years. Whether this ...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Simon Palmer. 

Simon has been practising architecture for well over ten years in his home country of Australia and abroad too. The interesting thing about Simon, in discovering who he is and what path he would choose as a 20-year-old, is that his decisions stemmed from experiences abroad and the solo travels he made between studying at high school and underta...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Clive Drew. 

Clive and I met in actual 3-Dimensional space over 10 years ago near the end of 2010 on a night out in the East End of London. We have a mutual friend called Chris who organised a curry on the famous, Brick Lane, then to go on and enjoy Clive's gig at 93 Feet East in the old Truman Brewery. Good times - Apart from the overly inflated price of...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Matt Chalupnicek. 

Matt is another Canadian and fits my descriptor of being cool, charismatic but kinda crazy.  We worked together for a few months in Australia when he was travelling the world with Matt, another Matt whom I also worked with. It was a little confusing at times working with two Matts, both Canadian, both kind of crazy. 

Matt Sebastian was the...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I have two guests on to chat. And these two guests are zooming-in from two different locations on either side of Canada. Today's guests are Matt Sebastian and Shaun McCord. 

Matt and Shaun are a cycling partnership. Together, they crossed the whole country of Canada, east to west. More or less. Shaun is from the west coast and Matt is from western-ish Canada but thei...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond podcast, I talk with Tatum Skipper. 

Tatum is an entrepreneur and travel is at the heartbeat of her enterprise. Some people know her as the fearless travel coach, others know her as the founder of Bonvoyage Babes Travel Blog and others still as host of 20 Till Takeoff podcast. 

If you've met Tatum on the traveller beat and didn't know these amazing things she is up to in her ...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond podcast, I talk with Drea Castro. 

Drea is an actress, producer, and also a fellow podcaster who was born in the Philippines and now lives in the USA. She loves the great outdoors (4:15) and uses camping, hiking, just being in nature as her therapy from her super busy work-life in the city. 

In conversation, we talk about the numerous options that exist in the lower 48 to get out int...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, it's just me - Allan Hill, that nostalgic vagabond. 

Easter Greetings (1:55) to all of you - my lovely listeners. 

Listen in to this one for a recap (3:35) on the podcast so far from August 2020 until now. Hear what I have discovered to be the best things (6:15) and worst things (9:15) about the podcasting experience during these lockdown days. 

I remind everyone w...

On this Easter Monday episode release of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I'm talking with Matt Burnett. 

Matt featured on the 2020 Christmas Special where he played host for an ep and interviewed me, just to mix things up a bit. A job well done too. I enjoyed myself. 

This time we talk about road trips and how our driving-duo became informally known as the "Road Bogans" from our unique driving adventures whe...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Chris Ascroft. 

We chatted on the first series of the podcast, last summer, during the main wave of the coronavirus pandemic, linking up from Liverpool and Montreal to discuss travel, traveller hostel culture and teaching English abroad. At that time Chris was preparing to begin a new adventure in a new country, teaching more than just English as a second lan...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Whitney Saldava. 

Whitney currently works at NATO and before that she worked as a journalist. You can just google her name and you'll discover loads of articles and various works she's written. Being a polyglot (5:30) and competent in six languages has no doubt helped in her career, though Whitney says the use of languages within her current role is a...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I'm talking with Tony. 

Tony is an American expat living in Vietnam. He's been stuck there (5:00) since the start of the pandemic for more or less a year now. Before the world shut down due to corona he was 8 months into another epic global adventure, continuing to work towards his ambition of exploring every country on planet Earth. 

In conversation, we discuss...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Tash Samek. 

Tash is a creative strategy director and founder of Clayton's Cocktails in the UK. We met a few years ago at a screenwriters' conference at Regent's University in London. At that time I was unaware of how many fascinating adventures she had been on over the years in places like Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas. 

In conversati...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Catie. 

Catie is a very optimistic and adventurous student undertaking a Ba Arts at the University of Nevada. As well as working towards her degree Catie is an entrepreneur and recently started an online business. The self-proclaimed "risk-taker" of the family. 

At only 23, and while studying, Catie has managed to save a bit of money and travelled in...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Zsófia Sáfár. 

She's from Hungary and currently bases herself in Budapest and sometimes in Italy where she works as a journalist and has written for multiple print and web publications. 

Zsófia describes herself as a beginner traveller, (4:30) but from the beginning, she has thrown herself in the deepened. Like cruising with strangers on a digital nomads...

On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Tamara Bee.

Tamara is a Canadian / British traveller with 3 decades of adventures and experiences. Her life changed in 1993 when an old school friend convinced her to pack up and embark on an ambitious overland journey across multiple continents from Paris to Cape Town in South Africa. We'll touch on this but mainly recount Tamara's return leg where s...