Hi from Let’s travel!. We hope you’re all safe out there. This month we’re reprising our show on New Hope, PA including the story about the famed Simeone racing car collection. If we can’t all travel in person, at least we can travel virtually with Susi and Patrice.

Join Susi Raphael and Patrice Samara as they explore “The New” New Hope, PA, including the Ghost Light Inn, Stella by Jose Garces Restaurant, the Bucks County Playhouse, and the Ferry Market. Then they visit the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, Voted #1 Car Collection in the World and interview Dr. Fred Simeone, the museum’s founder!

March showcase celebrates IRELAND & GALWAY, the European Union’s selection for 2020 as the Capital City of Culture. Join us as we discover what the country has to offer travellers of all sorts in 2020 along with GALWAY, a unique destination and this year’s international site for nearly 2000 cultural events and programs.

Bill Condon

Bill Condon is Vice President for Marketing & Product Development for the Irish Tourist Board in New York. He’s a 35+ year veteran in Tour & Travel, and postings with Tourism Ireland and Aer Lingus, the country’s national carrier, Previously he was Manager for Southern & Northern Europe for Tourism Ireland well as Manager for Australia & New Zealand. Golf in Ireland is his game.

email: [email protected]; www.ireland.com

John Crumlish

John Crumlish is C.E.O. for the GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ATS FESTIVAL in Galway, Ireland since 2002. A native of County Mayo, he holds a MA and MBS in Business Practices and is a member of the GALWAY Arts Council. He was nominated as Person of the Year in 2013 and Honorary Fellow from County Mayo in 2016. He also holds an Honorary Doctor of the Arts degree from NUI Galway.

email:[email protected].; ww.giaf.ie

Frances Howarth

Francis Howarth is Dir. of Marketing at the IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE in New York having previously served in a variety of capacities at the American Ballet Theatre, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, and the Town Hall. She’s a European History scholar with degrees from Barnard College and New York University where she earned a Masters degree in Performing Arts Administration

email:[email protected]; www.irishrep.org

Barry O’ Seanain

Barry is the Program & Special Projects Coordinator for the Irish Cultural Arts Institute in New York working with the development and planning departments therein. He has served as a theatrical producer and grant writer in Ireland. He is proficient in English Literature with a degree in Modern Irish from Trinity College, Dublin, and has an MA in Cultural Policy & Arts Management from University College, Dublin.

email:[email protected]; www.irishartscenter.org

James Donahue

James Donahue is the Executive Chef and Restaurant Manager at the Fitzpatrick Hotels in New York City since 2013. In his position, he oversees all operations in food and service management for both properties. He is an award-winning restauranteur having earned citations from media and television.

email:[email protected]

Join Susi Raphael and Patrice Samara as they explore “The New” New Hope, PA, including the Ghost Light Inn, Stella by Jose Garces Restaurant, the Bucks County Playhouse, and the Ferry Market. Then they visit the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, Voted #1 Car Collection in the World and interview Dr. Fred Simeone, the museum’s founder!

Today’s guest included Frederic Sund, GM of Smorgas Chef restaurants in NYC, Pablo Cid, Wines from Spain, Alice Loubaton, Trade & Marketing Relations Manager, Sopexa, Jigi Mathew, Dir. of Operations, Aligael’s On Broadway, and Marc Bauer, Master Chef, The International Culinary Center. The Holiday Table celebrated the classic cuisine and wine selections from France, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, and traditional Jewish and Kosher dishes from the U.S. and abroad.

Portugal gets the nod for Fall travel from the U.S. and the price is right.

Take TAP’s Premium Economy Premium class daily anywhere from 5 U.S. cities; NY-Newark-Boston, D.C.and Miami on their new  A 330 neo wide-bodies to Lisbon or Porto, perhaps the hottest city on our itinerary in less than seven hours.

Our travels by car took us to: Lisbon, the country’s capital, next to Óbido, a charming, flower-filled town, one-hour away on the A-8 superhighway, on to Coimbra, home to Portugal’s largest university and the country’s first capital via the A-8 again in less than two hours, then to Aviero, the “Venice of Portugal” this time less than two hours and-a-half hours on one of the “N” state roads, finally to Porto, as it name implies a lively port, where we took a Flix bus to cross over to Vigo, Spain’s first major city after the Minho river, the dividing line between Spain and Portugal.

BIOS

. Samantha Coehlo, Marketing Communications, TAP/ Air Portugal

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.  Riccardo Guimaraes, Manager, Operations, TAP Porto; [email protected]

. Bernardo Trevisano, Promotion Manager, Tourismo De Portugal; www.visitportugal.com

. Jose Fernandes, Agency Manager, ACP; [email protected]

Carmo Botelho, Manager, Marketing, Turismo de Lisboa; Visitors and Convention Bureau; [email protected]

. Victor Carrico, Dir., Turismo de Lisboa Visitors and Convention Bureau; [email protected]

Our Sept. showcase, DISCOVER AFRICA, features leading authorities on the Arts, Tour & Travel, Food, Fashion, and World heritage sites.

Africa is the world’s 2nd largest continent after Asia, and 2nd in total population after China. It is made up of 54 countries, with 125,000-3000 languages and dialects. It holds the world’s largest the river-the Nile, the largest desert, the Sahara, and the highest waterfalls, Victoria Falls. You’ll find the world’s fastest land animals here with over 1100 species, and 2600 species of birds.

We’re producing a full hour on a remote part of NYS celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founders’ company, Fleischmanns, in Fleischmanns, New York. Located in Delaware County in the Western Catskills, the town is enjoying a renaissance of sorts by virtue of its cultural heritage, history, landscape, historical sites and architecture and by the many individuals of note who have lived there, visited there or simply traveled through. It’s the town made famous by its most famous individual and his family over 100 years ago.

By Susan Raphael, Traveler Extrodinaire/ Executive Producer/Co-Host

Visit https://letstravelradio.com/07-01-2019-founders-day/ for more information. 

On this edition of Let’s Travel! Susi travels to Brooklyn for a music-theatre piece, “More Or Less I Am” by the theatrical troupe Company de’ Columbaria.  This work celebrates the 200th Anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth and is adapted from Whitman’s first major work, Song of Myself. Then it’s on to Turkey and an interview with Mehmet Kilic, President, Journalists and Writers Foundation to discuss his organization and the many wonders of the country. Enjoy!

Our May showcase: Discover NEPAL is presented by leaders of the Nepalese community in the U.S. and headed up by the Consul General in New York, Pushpa Raj. The emphasis is on NEPAL as a destination for Tour & Travel and the magical kingdom he represents in his region of the Himalayas, now accessible by a plethora of major carriers from the U.S., Europe and Asia. The photography is amazing.

Pushpa Raj Bhattarai: www.nepalconsulate.gov.np

Nepal’s Consul General in New York, since 2016 for the tri-state area; career diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Assignments have included Embassy of Nepal, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN, Geneva, and the President’s Office, Foreign Affairs,Nepal

John Guy: tel.: 646-315.4259

Curator, Florence and Herbert Irving section, South & South Asian Art. Staff, Metropolitan Museum

Judy Bell: [email protected]/ 516-739.4660, 1-800-421.8975

ACC, CTC. Sales Mgr., Himalayan International Tours. Position includes developing itineraries for

Amitabh Joshi: [email protected]

Board Member, Nepal-American Film Society. and Partner, w Erik Spink, developing film projects for commercial TV and non-fiction programs in US and Nepal.

Sangita Mukhiya Chhochoon

Principal, Nepal Primary School, Nepal; Language Instructor and Dance Professional, Sherpa Kidug Culture Center; Dancer and Choreographer, Sanjita Dance Center and Musical Artist, New York

Om Karamacharya: [email protected]

Music Video Dir.,Om Mega Audio & Video Production, Jackson Hgts, New York.

Manoj Rijal: [email protected]

International Journalist, Nepal and New York. Member, Foreign Press Center, Dept. of State and United Nations. Assignment Editor, NEPAL 24 Hours, Inc., California.,

Ruby Chadra: Tel.: 914-484. 1618

Senior Mgr., Travel and Trekking Agency. Services included GSA, Canada/ Gulf/ Jet Air, multi-national companies, e-commerce mgt., and airline sales and marketing experience

Luisang Waiba Tamang: tel.: 347-575.2782

Founder, Convenor, Nepal Day Parade. Nepal Community Leader, New York. Board Member, NYC Health & Hospital Corp., Elmhurst, New York

Surendra Rayamajhi: tel.:316- 258. 9875

Executive Chef, Mt. Everest Restaurant, Baltimore, MD., Owner, Executive Chef, Bajeko Sekuwa Restaurant, Jackson Hgts, N.Y.; Consultant, Tourism Trainer, Poverty Alleviation Program, 2004-2006.

Ang Gyaljen Sherpa: tel.: 347-761-8069

Trekking & Mountain Guide, Nepal, 1996-2012; Liaison Officer, Ministry of Tourism & Culture, Nepal, 2008-12. Scaled Mt. Everest on May 21, 2007

Ngima Pakhrin: tel.: 917-769. 5297

Editor, Mt. Everest Times, New York; Producer, KIMFF/ The Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival; Chair, Community Radio Solu FM 101.6 MHZ, 2011.

Music is a universal language which shapes our lives in myriad ways. On April’s Let’s Travel! Radio show Susi explores the psychology and neuroscience of music to find out why it evokes such strong emotions. The show also features some live music to get everyone in the audience off their feet and moving to the rhythm. Enjoy!

Please note: This show was originally recorded in April 2016.