Travel Bubble

Accepting beers off strangers, getting robbed on a beach and abandoning friends in the outback... just some of the topics covered in this week's episode with Polish-born, travel man, Henryk Sadzik.

Henryk is a travel industry professional with a wealth of experience. After moving to England at the age of five, he has lived in the USA, Jordan and has most recently moved to Thailand.

He has 13 years’ experience in the travel industry and has worked as Travel Manager in both retail and corporate travel as well as being a Tour Leader in the Middle East and Europe. On top of that, he's just an all-round lovely chap.

Who better then to join us as our guest for Episode 5?

Let Henryk take you around the world with his Travel Bubble choices and inspire you for your post lockdown travel.

You can find Henryk's YouTube channel Edge of the Map here and he can also be found on Instagram as @HenrykSadzik and @Edge.OfTheMap.

Don’t forget to like, share, comment, subscribe and rate. As usual, spoilers and show notes below.

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Country No.1: Costa Rica

Country No. 3: Vietnam         

Son Doong Cave- the biggest cave world.

The lost city in Colombia is known as Ciudad Perdida. There’s a few options to get there but all involved a long trek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Perdida

Wildcard: Colombia

Top Travel Tip: Give people a chance. Take people at face value, whilst keeping yourself a little bit wary. But give them the chance to prove you wrong. Not everybody is trying to scam you.

Best Souvenir: A tattoo from Thailand.

Travel Bubble Film Club.

The Painted Bird, Czech Republic (2019)

Ratcatcher, Scotland (1999)

Film of the week -

Winter Sleep, Turkey (2014)

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Thanks everybody for listening, don’t forget to like, rate, subscribe, follow and share.

Robbie Goullée is a South African, currently living In Bangkok. He’s been all over the world and lived in Taiwan and the UK. I’m honoured to call him my good friend and now, a Travel Bubble guest.

Our conversation spans the globe, covering backpacking budget street food to ten-course fine-dining tasting menus. Buildings that sweat history to haggling for a jade pendant. I laughed out load recording this podcast and laughed even more editing it. We talk donkey pancakes, duck skin on Pringles and a world-famous, finger-licking Colonel pops up too.

Robbie is a natural raconteur with a beautiful turn of phrase, so I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did recording it.

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Spoilers for Robbie's choices, links to things mentioned in the show and film recommendations are below.

Country No.1: Scotland

Country No.2: Laos

Country No. 3: China         

Wildcard: Micronesia

Top Travel Tip: Follow your nose. Don't plan too much. A lot of the best places you go are the ones that you don't have planned.

Best Souvenir: A fake Jade amulet in China.

This week’s film recommendations

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Thanks everybody for listening.

You are in for a treat with the insight-packed episode with my Polish friend and tour leader Beata Godlewska. 

Currently based in the USA and having lived in India for a few years, I knew that Warsaw-native Beata would be a perfect guest for Travel Bubble. Her choices were all well thought out and it was a pleasure to hear her enthuse about the different places she has visited. 

We covered a lot of topics and a lot of ground in the episode so I’m excited for you to get listening. I won’t spoil any surprises so don’t read on and just click play if you don’t want to know more about Beata’s choices. You can find Beata on Instagram as @beata_god. 

Spoilers Below

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Country No.1: France

Jim Haynes

Country No.2: India

Country No. 3: Czech Republic          

Wildcard: Japan

Top Travel Tip: Do make time to see the things that are at the top of your bucket list, but for the rest of the things- let them go. Take your time and sit in a bar and soak it up.

Best Souvenir: Proyog Yogamat

Travel Bubble Film Club

Amores Perros, (Mexico) 2000

La Dolce Vita (Italy) 1960

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A friend of mine and fellow Tour Leader, he has travelled extensively and was on hand to provide us with invaluable travel knowledge and some intriguing Travel Bubble choices. Casper's choices span the globe with a particularly interesting selection of a country that, could be argued, doesn't actually exist.

It'll definitely provide you with food for thought and some thinking to do about your first post-lockdown trips. If that doesn't whet your appetite then have you every wondered what the difference is between the Netherlands and Holland?

A big thanks to Casper for being my first international guest, if you're intrigued and want to know more you can give him a follow on his Instagram @CaperRenting.

Don’t forget to subscribe to Travel Bubble so you don’t miss any episodes, give us a five-star rating and share, share, share with everyone you think might be interested. 

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Spoilers below.Country No.1: Transnistria

Country No.2: France

Country No. 3: Iran   

Wildcard: USA

Top Travel Tip: Slow down, don't rush your travel. 2 countries in 2 weeks is better than 3 in 2 weeks.

Best Souvenir: A bottle of wine from Cricova winery in Moldova

Travel Bubble Film Club

My Sweet Little Village, Czech Republic, 1985

The Hunt, Denmark, 2012

From cannibal monkeys to Caribbean carnivals, Travel Bubble’s opening episode with Josh Brown doesn’t disappoint.

With choices spanning three continents and food tips that will leave your taste buds tingling, jump right in and let us take you around the world in less than an hour.

I won’t spoil the surprise of Josh’s choices for you, but I’ll drop some hints on our social media throughout the week that might give you some inklings so don’t forget to follow Travel Bubble on Facebook and Instagram on the links below.

Thanks so much to Josh for being the first ever guest and the Travel Bubble guinea pig, he put a lot of effort in to his choices and gives some in depth details that will no doubt help you with your future plans.

Spoilers below.

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Country No.1: India

Shantaram

Country No.2: Trinidad and Tobago

Country No. 3:  Uganda

Wildcard: Ethiopia

Top Travel Tip: Get a Revolut card.

- Duck into a hotel if you're feeling scammed or harassed.

Souvenir: Wooden elephant head from Thailand