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A ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ cross country trip yielded unexpected discoveries for Sasha Soreff, when she set off with two friends across the Southern United States in 1992.
When she isn't on life-changing adventures, Sasha Soreff is a NYC-based transformational coach and facilitator, writer, choreographer, and dance teacher.
Website: https://sashasoreffdance.com/
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I am Nathalie. An interior architect, artist, former project manager and all round dreamer. In November 2018, I left
my London life, took the plunge, and moving my life to France. I now live in a Water Mill which dates back to
pre1735. It sits on the banks of the River Cernon, in the region of Aveyron. Surrounded by nature on the edge of
the village of Saint-Georges-de-Luzençon, close to the market town of Millau and 2km from the Norman Foster
designed Millau Viaduct.
I have been refurbishing the building - it was a working flour mill until as recently as 2000 – retained many of the
original features, determined to keep as much of the buildings history as possible. As well as the new
kitchen/dining area and the new salon reception room, there are now 4 new bedrooms, 3 new shower rooms and
4 new toilets added to the existing self -contained apartment that sleeps up to 4 people. A delightful
meditation/chill out room has been created on the ground floor and the sun terrace has been refurbished and
made usable. The conversion of the old 120 Mtre Sq piggery into a working ceramics/art studio has also been
completed!
I am a ceramic artist and will be splitting my time between creating my own works and hosting/facilitating
retreats/workshops/collaborations and residencies. Covid has been a challenging time, but weirdly allowed me
more time as due to travel restrictions etc, I have not been able to facilitate retreats or host many events, as per
the paned programme.
The Covid Situation (this is written/ recorded June 2021) has allowed me more time to be creative and it’s during
this time that my Goddesses Sculptures Series has come into being. I am also writing a book, with the help and
support of fellow writers at The London Writers Salon. I would have made no progress if it were not for these
guys!
This summer I have planned two Raku ceramic courses and in I will be hosting September Writers Retreats (
Email address is below if you would like further information on these or general stay enquires)
I have also undertaken the somewhat daunting challenge of starting the process to become a micro hydroelectric
power supplier of energy to the green grid. No small feat, especially with the world renowned challenges of French
Administration! I am determined to make real change in a positive direction for the planet and future generations.
This project will be financed by eco warriors far and wide and everyone who is interested in helping take the strain
off Mother Nature’s precious natural resources. If you would like to be kept informed about all news from The Mill,
please feel free to sign up for The Mill News Letter for information on events, ceramics, hydroelectric progress and
all the shenanigans of a London Gal, swapping her life for one in the French Countryside!
P.S. This summer I have planned two Raku ceramic courses and in I will be hosting September Writers Retreats (
Email address is below if you would like further information on these or general stay enquires)
https://themillfrance.com/blog
email: [email protected] for more information
https://www.nathalieedwards.com/ for my ceramics
The Mill was featured in a short video sponsored by Bricomarche a French DIY store featuring interesting places to stay in
France – You can see more of The Mill , and a very nervous me here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWiVPkf4ZDE
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Fara and her husband Bob are in their mid-40s. They have been traveling the world since 2017 meeting new friends along the way. Global Couple LIFE is their online community to connect couples worldwide to share their common interest in travel. www.globalcouplelife.com, https://www.facebook.com/groups/globalcouplelife, https://twitter.com/globalcoupleli1
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Excerpts from a diary; kept during her first travels to India in the 90’s, a place revisited since that first adventure. A few moments of the six-week journey are shared, as we are taken around this vast beautiful country steeped in history.Stories that will stay with her forever, like brightly coloured photos imprinted in her heart & imagination.Tracy Bickley is a London based creative. She first traveled to India while living in New York in the early 90’s.The places travelled and lived retained little pieces of her heart; reappear in the fictional stories she writes.
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Imagine a teenager with an inchoate desire to test herself but no ability to foresee consequences who goes AWOL from a charter flight that stops to refuel in Greece, then hitchhikes her way alone through Europe and returns, spirits (and virginity) intact Robin takes us to the road from Athens to Patras along the Aegean on a starry summer night at the start of her adventure thumbing through Europe.
She’s since made her life in New York City where she’s worked in the field of Brand Engagement while raising a daughter from Jiangsu, China and is now pursuing an MFA from Bennington.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, Mc Sweeney’s, The Missouri Review (Winter, 2022) and Off-Assignment. Sound Engineer - Nour Harakati
https://robinreif.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-reif-46133a/ https://www.facebook.com/robin.reif.96
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The archipelago of St Kilda, in the Outer Hebrides, was evacuated in 1930 but its beauty and isolation still fascinates thousands of visitors who make the long journey each year to visit it. Leigh Chambers was one of them.
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Chris takes us to Lesotho, a high-altitude, landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa, is crisscrossed by a network of rivers and mountain ranges. Not your every day holiday destination.
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"There’s lots to tell you about Rio and our stay. These podcasts are taken from my blog www.sukisuzy.WordPress.com where you can find lots of photos too.”
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Patti takes us into the beautiful remote village of Napongayit in South Sudan and introduces us to the lives of the Larim people and her life-changing visit in 1979.
Patti has always been fascinated by different ways of living, which led her to study social anthropology at Oxford, living in Sri Lanka and South Sudan. Then she became an award-winning BBC producer of documentaries looking at social and ecological issues facing people in Africa and Asia. These days she’s a Research Associate of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and her photos, research notes and music from South Sudan can all be found on the Pitt Rivers Museum’s website. -
During the early 1970’s times were hard for Brian and Susie Bannigan. They'd previously left Ireland to come to England in the early 60's. Now with a gaggle of ten boys Brian was working at the Corby Steelworks. He was also driving taxis and coaches in between shifts, some nights and on days off.
Thinking that life overseas might bring more opportunities, he contemplated a life in Australia like so many others at the time; but naturally sad at the thought he might never again see his homeland again he wrote a poem to capture his thoughts.
Eamonn, his son recorded him reading this poem around 12 years ago purely to capture his voice. It was never intended for a public audience and hasn't been professionally recorded. Today is his birthday and ten years since his passing. Today we celebrate his voice, his love of storytelling and to share his poem. We think he would have loved it. Enjoy and be sure to capture all those special memories and voices while you can x
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In 2005, before starting university, Gina completed a 14-day Outward Bound kayaking trip in the Kenai Fjords of Alaska.
Regina is an American writer living in Bristol. She specializes in poetry and essays related to the arts, culture, travel, wellness and the unique people and places in those spheres. She is most at home pedaling her bicycle or on her yoga mat. Read more of Regina’s writing and listen to her podcast at reginagbeach.com
http://reginagbeach.com/
http://instagram.com/reginagbeach
https://www.facebook.com/ginabeach
https://twitter.com/reginagbeach
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Angkor, Cambodia The current COVID travel restrictions trigger memory of a visit to a deserted national park, now an extremely popular tourist destination. The reasons for the solitude are not what you think.
Christine DePedro is an American currently living in Chicago, Illinois. She has lived in London, UK and Sydney, Australia as well as Phnom Penh. After a 30+ career in publishing and journalism, she is exploring her love of food and cooking, producing a book and videos of Swedish home cooking. https://www.patreon.com/greenpeppercornpublishing. She intends to explore Khmer home cooking next. She can be reached on Twitter @streetsmart_chi and Instagram @green_peppercorn_pub Christine DePedro [email protected]
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Travelling through Myanmar I was struck by, and fascinated with, the musical timbre of the Burmese language. Many of my recordings were of public announcements in train stations, airports and the Taunggyi Fire Balloon Festival. This short podcast opens with ambient sounds of Bagan waking up. Then to a Yangon train station announcer and after: a MC at the Taunggyi Fire Balloon Festival before ending with a young guide, Jonny, who burst into song while we rested in a hamlet on trek above the old hill station town of Kalaw.
David Harden started travelling aged sixteen when he hitch-hiked to Greece from London during a school summer holiday. After leaving school he set out from the UK to travel overland to Australia, but only made it as far as Afghanistan. After working in the corporate world (for fifteen long years) he has returned to what drives him forward the most: recording sounds, taking photographs and travel. His website: travelwornsatchel.com has a collection of sounds and photographs from his travels. Instagram & Twitter - davidharden123 and his Travel Worn Satchel Podcast is available to download via most podcast players. Blog / website: travelwornsatchel.comInstagram: davidharden123 -
Jodi Hausen is a Bozeman, Montana-based freelance writer, photographer and bon vivant whose late-in-life discovery that she has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder prompted her to primarily focus her work on disability issues. An innate curiosity (most likely prompted by an ADDled brain) led her to work in myriad fields from theatrical costume and set design to teaching skiing and becoming a Registered Maine Guide – the latter being the genesis for this story set in Baxter State Park in the wilds of northern Maine.
Website: jodihausen.com
Blog: The ADDled Brain
Twitter: @JodiHausen
Facebook: JodiHausenCreative
LinkedIn: Jodi Hausen
Background music: Kodama Night Town by Alejandro Magaña (A. M.) from mixkit.co.
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Joanna shares her trip to visit an Altai indigenous family living in the Karakol Valley, Ongudai Raiyon, Altai Republic (southernmost Siberia), where she lived and worked as a translator representing the indigenous people.
Joanna is a Russian to English translator and interpreter based on the North Norfolk Coast. She is currently writing a work of creative non-fiction based on her experiences of the Altai Republic and the Altai indigenous culture. She delves into themes of archaeology, homeland, visual arts and eco-translation. Instagram @altaipilgrim and for more Information on the book about Altai and my events www.altaipilgrim.com
Image copyright J Dobson
Joanna is a member of LWS
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Follow Katie’s romantic path down Seville streets in the height of Spring. Jasmine fragrance fills the air, Flowers bloom, Blackbirds sing, and we’ll look for Flamenco dancers before our drink in Citroen Bar to end a perfect afternoon.
Katie is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and Psychologies. Follow Katie on Twitter at@katie_monk or on her blog, www.whatkatiedidnow.com.
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A Trek down the Nile (in 1983) - William Keeling
William pays homage to the late Geoff Crowther (1944-2021), author of the travel guide ‘Africa on a Shoestring’, by recalling his own teenage holiday to war torn Sudan and Uganda in 1983. The 18 year-old William travelled from Cairo in Egypt to Khartoum in Sudan, before trekking from Nairobi in Kenya to visit the Kabalega Falls on The Nile in Uganda, and the Gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda.
William Keeling was foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and exposed a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria in 1992. Having tired of reality, he turned to fiction. He is the author of The Gay Street Chronicles, a series of satirical novels of which the first - Belle Nash & the Bath Soufflé - is to be published in October, 2021.
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A moorhen chirps outside your porthole, geese honk hello as they pass by, and now and again a kingfisher flies close in a flash of blue And if you're lucky, you’ll wake early enough to catch the dawn chorus as it bursts into life in the quiet morning air. This, this is boatlife on the Grand Union Canal, London. Welcome aboard.
Ruth Stokes is author of The Armchair Activist’s Handbook (Silvertail Books) and a content designer in the charity sector. In a former life, she was a journalist for the likes of the Guardian, The Ecologist and New Internationalist.
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Havana Cuba – Chauffeured to downtown Havana in a 1950’s Chevrolet Bel Air, the smell of freshly baked bread hits your taste buds, you admire the old architecture until the singing of 'Guantanamera' beckons you down a side street bar to enjoy a traditional Cuban highball Mojito, close to the blaring music, whilst breathing the aroma of Havana cigars.
Do yourself a favour, step back in time and visit Cuba, you won’t be disappointed.
Dr Emadch Beck MacNee, originally from Palau, was raised in New York. She studied marine biology at James Cook University in 2002, and now lives in Australia with her husband, two children, and two dachshunds. She and her husband enjoy cooking exotic meals and travelling the globe with their children. -
Joanna Akoumianaki grew up in Greece and now lives in Perthshire, Scotland with her two children and husband. Water inspires every aspect of her life. She is a water scientist, a coastal hiker, a diver, a gardener, a maritime-fiction lover, and a writer of stories about travelling on water. You can find her on twitter @Joanna_Akoum and Facebook ioanna.akoumianaki. Acknowledgements for the production of this podcast: Steve Addison, Kostis Avissinos (Lousakiano Krasi, Nostos, https://open.spotify.com/album/7p4esO1vSlLIUZpw5x8pTf) and Couleur Locale (Lousakies)
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