In this episode, we take our podcast and wine-drinking outdoors! On a rare beautiful April day in Prague, we made a podcast in a nearby park and dedicated it to how the weather and climate has been for us throughout their travels. In this episode, we talk about things like:

Our shock in discovering the humidity and heat in Thailand

Our students in Thailand loved to wear ridiculous things in hot weather, like parkas, hats, and gloves

The experience of the rainy, cool, and hot seasons in Thailand

Our hottest moments in Thailand and Vietnam

What it's like attempting--and completely failing-- to function without air conditioners in Southeast Asia

What the four seasons in really like in different parts of South Korea and Japan

The hottest place in Vietnam and our experience with it

What Taiwan weather is like

How Prague's weather has been for us (from January to April)

What our favorite place in the world has been for weather

And plenty more!

We tried to make the subject of weather as interesting as possible for you guys because, although it has a reputation of being a boring subject matter, it is very important to pay attention to, especially if you are traveling!

You can check out our blog post with plenty of pictures of the places we talk about here: http://www.wordswithwinos.com/blog/2017/5/11/episode-12-weather

Thank you so much for listening! Happy wine-drinking and travels!

Wine: Brise de France - Merlot (France)

In this episode, we take our podcast and wine-drinking outdoors! On a rare beautiful April day in Prague, we made a podcast in a nearby park and dedicated it to how the weather and climate has been for us throughout their travels. In this episode, we talk about things like:

• Our shock in discovering the humidity and heat in Thailand
• Our students in Thailand loved to wear ridiculous things in hot weather, like parkas, hats, and gloves
• The experience of the rainy, cool, and hot seasons in Thailand
• Our hottest moments in Thailand and Vietnam
• What it's like attempting--and completely failing-- to function without air conditioners in Southeast Asia
• What the four seasons in really like in different parts of South Korea and Japan
• The hottest place in Vietnam and our experience with it
• What Taiwan weather is like
• How Prague's weather has been for us (from January to April)
• What our favorite place in the world has been for weather

And plenty more! We tried to make the subject of weather as interesting as possible for you guys because, although it has a reputation of being a boring subject matter, it is very important to pay attention to, especially if you are traveling!

You can check out our blog post with plenty of pictures of the places we talk about here.

Thank you so much for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Brise de France - Merlot (France)

In this episode, Matt and I had the honor of interviewing Jen Barua from Green Travelling 101. Jen has a travel website and course, which focuses on how to be green friendly and Earth conscious while traveling. She has been traveling the world before she could even walk and came to the realization when reading "Oceans in Peril" by John Christopher Fine at just eleven years old that the Earth is a delicate place and mankind is destroying it. She started practicing and advocating being green friendly ever since then and now offers a course for those who want to lessen their carbon footprint while they travel, all the way from the early stages of planning trips to their return home.

In our exciting, hilarious, and enriching interview with Jen, we discuss tons of stuff, such as:

• Where she first lived and traveled abroad
• What exactly Green Travelling 101 is and how the idea came about
• What "Oceans in Peril" is about and how it impacted Jen's life from then to now
• What exactly the Green Travelling 101 course entails and what else you can find on her awesome website
• How we are impacting the Earth and its oceans with pollution, over-fishing, etc.
• Which country/region was the most green-friendly and which country/region was the least green-friendly in her experience (and her response will surprise you!)
• What her three-week long ocean conservation course was like in Hawaii where she cut open a dead bird!
• What life is really like in Hawaii, South Korea, and India
• Some confusing struggles we collectively all faced in South Korea-- one of which even included Jehovah's witnesses who were (ironically) our saviors one time!
• How people in India use cow dung to be green friendly (yes, I did just use "India," "cow dung," and "green-friendly" in the same sentence)
• Public defecation in India! Woohoo!
• Cultural differences across India
• What she does to make Earth a greener place while living abroad
• SHARKS!
• A sweet peek into a specific module in her course, such as how to be green friendly with accommodation while traveling
• Advice for aspiring travelers

Thank you so much, Jen, for the awesome interview! We had a blast chatting with you and hope you had a blast, too!

For our readers/listeners, thank you for tuning in! You can find Jen's website here. You can also connect with her on Facebook and Pinterest. And, if you prefer, you could also listen to the interview on iTunes!

Wine: An unknown red wine (we suck and forgot to write it down! Yikes!)

Ever wondered how you can have a career and travel the world simultaneously? In this interview episode, Matt and I got the chance to chat with Kelly and Kari from Workationing who do just that! Kelly and Kari are two adventurous and passionate friends/colleagues from the US who love both traveling and working. Since they are both career-minded women who want to progress in their field of digital public relations, but also are in love with traveling and discovering new cultures, they decided to combine their two passions and thus, Workationing was born!

In our interview with them, we discussed tons of fun topics with them:

• A definition of "workationing"
• How they started to workation together
• Where they've workationed together, where they are, and where that are going next
• Some items on their bucket list and which they want to accomplish next the most
• Where they specifically work and what they do there
• Where they stay when workationing for a long period of time abroad Some awesome AirBNB hacks!
• The most terrifying moment for them while abroad
• Reverse culture shock
• The country they'd live in for the rest of their lives if they had to choose
• Bioluminescent beaches and where to find them
• Positives and negatives of traveling with a friend/colleague
• Advice for aspiring travelers and/or workationers

Thank you so much, Kelly and Kari, for chatting with us! We had a great time and we hope you did, too! For our listeners/readers, thank you for being so awesome and listening to the interview!

Feel free to follow Kelly and Kari and their adventures on their blog. You can also check them out on social networks:Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

You can also have a listen to their podcast on Apple Podcasts and Soundcloud.

And don't forget to check out our blog, too! :)

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Campo de Chile - Merlot (Chile)

Transportation is a huge factor when traveling abroad. Matt and Marilyn dedicate this podcast to transportation in the countries they've been to. In this podcast, they discuss transportation in:

• The US, specifically NYC
• Thailand and stories while traveling, like the minivan ride with a very high and violent gentleman
• South Korea, including the bullet train at 5 AM while intoxicated
• Vietnam: nothing but motorbikes and Uber! Oh, and constant pandemonium
• Japan, the oh-so-expensive Japan
• Taiwan, with its gorgeous views from luxurious train cars
• The Czech Republic, specifically Prague
• They also rank their least favorite to favorite countries simply based on their public transportation.

Check out the blog post for more info on this podcast!

Thank you so much for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Mas - Merlot (France)

Matt and I got the incredible opportunity to interview the one and only Matt Kepnes from Nomadic Matt! He has been a huge inspiration to us and our travel lifestyle, so we managed to organize an interview with the legend himself. In this interview episode, we talked to Matt about:

• His first experiences with international travel and what made him want to continue traveling
• What drove him to quit his job and travel the world full-time
• His experiences teaching English in Bangkok, Thailand and Taipei, Taiwan
• The evolution of his family's thoughts and feelings towards his traveling lifestyle
• His most frightening and shocking (or should I say disgusting?) moments
• Where he stays when traveling
• The one country he'd live in for the rest of his life if he had to choose
• Where he's lived in the US and his favorite place to live there
• What country he wants to most re-visit
• What are positives and negatives of traveling solo and with other travelers
• The best international nightlife
• Some advice to aspiring travelers

And more!

Thank you so much for chatting with us, Matt! You can check out his world-famous blog here and find awesome travel tips, stories, travel books, and more.

Don't forget to check out our blog, too! :)

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: A red wine that was entirely in Japanese! Oops!

Considering the Super Bowl was recently, we decided to make a podcast about sports and fitness abroad! Sports and fitness have both always played huge roles in our lives, so why should that change just because we travel full-time?

In this episode, we cover:

• Exercising in Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and Prague, Czech Republic
• Eating healthy and the types of foods we ate in our travels
• How to stay overall healthy and fit while traveling and living abroad, which can sometimes be a hassle
• What we do for exercising while traveling and living abroad
• Sporting events that we attended, like a baseball game in Osaka, Japan and a soccer game in Chonburi, Thailand
• Why both of those events were a couple of our top highlights of our travels
• How to watch and stay up to date with your favorite professional sports teams while being abroad

For more information and tons of videos and pictures, check out our blog post for this episode.

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Ludwig - Modry Portugal (Hungary)

Matt and Marilyn recap 2016 month by month and give a sneak peak of what's to come in 2017.

2016:

• Fleeing South Korea because of their horrible ESL jobs basically illegally
• Living in Vietnam for seven months
• Backpacking through Vietnam for almost a month
• Having an authentic experience with a Vietnamese family for a weekend in rural Vietnam
• Living in Japan
• Exploring Japan with friends and family
• Backpacking through Taiwan
• Celebrating holidays at home for the first time in two years

2017:

• Where we are headed to next to live
• Where we wish to explore in the new year

Check out our blog post for a plethora of pictures and videos!

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine- Gnarly Head- Cabernet Sauvignon (California)

One of the biggest things we miss out on when traveling the world are the holidays. Although we do feel a bit sad we're not with our friends and families back home during some holidays, we've discovered spending them elsewhere can be rewarding!

In this episode, we discuss various holidays we've experiences abroad. We talked about:

• Halloween in Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan.
• Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's in Thailand and Korea.
• Random holidays, like Peppero Day in Korea, which is basically a holiday dedicated to eating chocolate, and
• What Ho Chi Minh City is like during Chinese New Year
• What it's like returning home for the holidays after a couple of years celebrating them abroad.
• New Year's celebration on Koh Chang, an island in Thailand
• New Year's in Busan, South Korea and why it's not the place to go if you want to drink heavily
• What Koreans do in Busan at sunrise on New Year's Day
• Father's Day in Thailand and what the entire country does on that day

Check out the blog post for photos and more information.

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Lab - Red Wine (Lisbon, Portugal)

In this overdue episode, we discuss our travels in Okinawa and Taiwan. We talked about:

• Exploring Kobe, Japan with my brother, who came to Japan to visit us
• Then, exploring Okinawa with my brother and discovering it's a gorgeous and totally underrated place!
• Why Okinawa is Japan's "Hawaii"
• Eating some seriously unbelievable conveyor belt sushi
• The weather in Okinawa
• Backpacking through Taiwan and the best route to do that
• Hitting some amazing must-see spots there, like Taipei, Hualien, Taroko National Park, Kaohsiung, and Taichung
• After an amazing two weeks in Taiwan, we flew back home to NYC for the first time in over a year
• Reverse culture shock and how much of a struggle it has been for us.

And more!

Here's the blog post for tons of pictures and more information.

Thank you for listening! Cheers and happy travels!

Wine: Bolla - Pinot Noir (Italy)