The Travel Hour
By The Travel Hour
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Podcast Description
Join Host Matthew Stevenson on his radio journeys across the United States, Europe, and the world. Click on show title to listen. Subscribe; it’s free.
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Simon Winchester's Atlantic Islands | Best-selling author, Simon Winchester, author of a forthcoming history of the Atlantic Ocean, takes listeners to the southern seas and some of his favorite islands, including St. Helena, where Napoleon lives in exile. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Europe by Ferry | Roam the Mediterranean, the Aegean, and Adriatic on luxury ferries, which cost a fraction of the prices of cruise ships. Michael Howe-Davies, director of Aferry, explains where you can go and how to buy the tickets. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exploring Bosnia | Drive, fly, or take the train to Bosnia to bike or hike, or to go white water rafting with our guest, Vladimir Simic, of Exploring Bosnia, located in Sarajevo. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Treating in Westphalia | In the delightful and historic German city of Muenster, Barnadette Spinnen, of Muenster Marketing, takes us on a grand tour. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson. | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beijing's Bicycle Kingdom | The Chinese capital may be the world’s best city for biking. George, of Bicycle Kingdom, which operates daily and longer tours, describes how easy it is to hit the roads. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 6/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bucharest's Rembrandt Hotel | Check into a boutique hotel, owned by Jerry van Schaik, in the Lipscani district of Romania’s capital and explore the city that was once known as the Paris of the East. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Istanbul’s Blue Mosque | We go inside the life of a mosque in Istanbul, with Charles Stevenson, who has been studying how Muslims go to prayer. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 5/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Hall's African Bike Tour | Lonely Planet’s guide editor in chief, Tom Hall, describes his bike ride across southern Africa, and the best ways to discover Botswana and Namibia. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Syria By Rental Car | Neveen Hashem of Europcar in Damascus takes listeners behind the wheel of a rental car in Syria. The country has Roman ruins, Crusader fortresses, souks, mosques, and many inviting restaurants, and the way to see it is in your own car. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kikkoman Around the World | The Travel Hour looks at one of the most successful Japanese exports, the soy sauce known to the world as Kikkoman. Host Matthew Stevenson speaks with Mr. Yuzaburo Mogi, chairman of the company that has been in business for almost four hundred years. | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Retreat to the Kalahari | Tswalu Kalahari Reserve is a luxury lodge located on its own 100,000 hectares in South Africa’s green desert, the Kalahari. If you book a room or a villa, the lodge will send a plane to collect you in Cape Town or Johannesburg. Madeleine Goodman takes us on a tour. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 12/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Biking Across Nazi Germany | In the summers of 1935 and 1936, when he was 16 and 17, Nikolai Stevenson, father of Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson, rode a bicycle across Germany, together with a student group. Here he shares his personal impressions of Adolph Hitler and the rise of fascism, as Europe and the United States drifted toward war. | 11/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Russo-Japanese War | Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a beautiful coastal New England city, was the scene of a great American diplomatic triumph: the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Charles B. Doleac, the founder of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum, describes the setting and the course of the negotiation that won for President Theodore Roosevelt the Nobel Prize for Peace. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson. | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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England's Landmark Trust | Columnist and author Simon Hoggart describes how easy it is for travelers to stay in authentic English properties in all corners of the British isles. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 2/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amtrak Vacations | Head the to the American West with Amtrak, which offers attractive fares on its vacation rail tours. Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson speaks with John Tavano of Amtrak Vacations. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City | Laura Stevenson, a high-school senior, describes backpacking from Bangkok, through northern Thailand and Laos, and then from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. She recalls battle sites of the Vietnam War, and the pleasures of shopping and the beaches. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Around Albania | Miranda Vickers, the author numerous books about Albania and Kosovo, talks about these remote corners of southeastern Europe. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 2/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Road, China | Best-selling author Simon Winchester talks about driving a car in western China and his middle-of-the-night rescue. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Battles Above Britain, WW II | Charles Poskitt, of Cambridge, England, describes growing up in the shadows of the Battle of Britain and the air bases near what is now the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. | 1/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Out of Africa | Nick Holme of the Luxury Train Club talks about his home in Zimbabwe, a troubled country with so much potential, and the pleasures of rail and other travels in east and southern Africa. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Paul Jones House | Discover the charms of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and tour the home of the famous sea captain of the American Revolution, who said, when asked to surrender to the British: “I have not yet begun to fight.” Sandra Rux of the Portsmouth Historical Society discusses his life and career. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 1/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revolutionary War Portraits | Located in historic Philadelphia, the Second Bank of the United States is now home to the finest collection of portraits of figures in the American Revolution. Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson takes listeners on a stroll through the gallery, which is located near Independence Hall. | 1/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GW Travel's Luxury Trains | The founder of GW Travel, Tim Littler, describes how listeners can ride across Russia, China, India, the Silk Road, and Africa on his company’s elegant fleet of luxury trains. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 1/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Giselle Cuypers' Battle of the Bulge | Madame Giselle Cuypers, who survived the Battle of the Bulge as a civilian caught in the combat, describes the events of December 1944 and January 1945. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 12/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Band of Brothers, Bastogne 1944 | To commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, 1944, the Belgium town of Bastogne — around which much fighting took place — honors veterans, including E Company, 506th Regiment, now known as the ‘Band of Brothers’. Veteran Herbert Suerth recalls the battle. Second in a series. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson. | 12/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Battle of the Bulge, Malmedy Massacre | To commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the Travel Hour visits the Ardennes in Belgium, scene of desperate fighting December-January 1944-45. Historian and guide Michel Beart describes the Malmedy Massacre, one of the worst atrocities committed against American forces. First in a series on the battle. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 12/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cape Town to Cairo, by Rovos Rail | Rohan Vos, the founder of Rovos Rail, describes his luxury 28-day journey — by private train and plane — from South Africa to the Nile delta. Or explore southern Africa aboard one of the world’s most elegant private trains. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 12/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marty Markowitz's Brooklyn | On its own Brooklyn would be America’s fourth largest city, and its neighborhoods, restaurants, museums, and parks are a traveler’s delight. Explore this New York borough with its president, Marty Markowitz, who describes with affection such treasures as Junior’s cheesecake, Prospect Park, and Brooklyn Heights. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 12/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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World Travel Market London 2008 | The World Travel Market in London is a jamboree of destinations. Thousands of travel operators, hotels, safari villages, cruise ships, luxury trains, and beach resorts come together to promote their offerings. Together with Tom Hall, editor of the famous Lonely Planet travel guides, the Travel Hour visits some of the more obscure stands at the fair, including Moldova, Serbia, a trans-African bike race, Crimea, and Namibia. Host: Matthew Stevenson | 12/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Slice of Brooklyn | Discover the best New York pizza on a bus tour of far-flung Brooklyn, together with Tony Muia. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 12/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Riad El Fenn, The Romance of Marrakech | The Sunday Times calls the rooms of this elegant, hideaway hotel some of the sexiest in the world. One of its founders, Vanessa Branson, describe the charms of Riad El Fenn, and those of Marrakech and Morocco at large. | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To The Heart of Switzerland, By Boat | Swiss independence dates to 1291, when three cantons signed a pact of mutual defense on the shores of the Lake of the Four Cantons, known also as Lake Lucerne. Discover this lovely corner of Europe with Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Russian World War II Battlefields | Oleg Alexandrov of Three Whales Travel in Moscow explains how listeners can visit such important Second World War battlefields as Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Kursk. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 11/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A New York Busman's Holiday | Hop on, hop off New York’s newest tour buses, together with Richard Kerekes of CitySights NY. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 11/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ethical Travel, Great Adventure | John Warner, director of sales and marketing for The Great Adventure People (GAP Adventures), talks about sustainable tourism and travel, in remote corners of the globe. Travel Hour host: Matthew Stevenson | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 35 Episodes |
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