Hot stuff, coming through!

Every six months we try to take a look back over the Indie Travel Podcast archives and root out our favourite posts, podcasts and videos. This year is no different, so let’s see what has been hot in the first half of 2009…

Top podcasts

Without a doubt, our favourite recording this year was episode 100. It just feels so nice to be in triple figures and we took the opportunity to talk through our last three years of full-time travel. This was also the first podcast to be recorded in our home country of New Zealand.

Our guide to Paris, France was a popular topic and came with the bonus of a free walking tour around Notre Dame Cathedral. Make sure you visit the page, add your thoughts on Paris and download that sweet extra for your next visit.

A surprising favourite on the stats was our advice for slimming down your toiletries kit. This is an area where we constantly overpack — and packing light is about as close to a holy commandment as it gets in the long-term travel community. Like all good advice, this is straight-forward, practical and doesn’t rely on expensive alternatives.

Rather than re-capping our reviews here, let me point you towards episode 112, where we discuss some of our favourite — and not so favourite — travel product reviews over the last few months.

Articles

Picking our favourite articles is always so hard. That said, here are some that have caught your eye and ours over the last six months.

Cheap places to stay in Hawaii
The title says it all, really.

Makan time in Singapore
With a menu of delicious treats and places to enjoy them in Singapore.

The many faces of Miami
Explore this American city with this advice to hand and you’re sure to find something new.

How to save on airfares/cheap airline tickets
Useful advice for novice travellers looking to save money without hassle.

Your first overnight solo trek
A practical, first-hand experience that will also help you prepare to hike by yourself

And we’ll top it all off with a list: the top 40 songs for travel.

Videos

We’re just getting started on our second season of Travel Talks, so make sure you’re on the iTunes or RSS feed and pick them all up. We’ve also just started making use of our Youtube account, so you can subscribe or be our friend there.

As for a favourite few? Let’s go with…

A trip to Bunbury, Western Australia

And something recent, Starting a roadtrip: Mouraki boulders edition.

Upcoming

We have some exciting upcoming projects which we’d like to introduce. The first, we’ve already started to talk about — the Indie Travel Podcast Magazine is being released on September 1. A magazine gives us creative control over page layout and style…and we want to create something beautiful, exciting and practical for us all. Read more about the Indie Travel Podcast Magazine here.

I don’t know why, but people have been asking us about Indie Travel Podcast clothing! We did a test run with a quality, local screenprinter and are quite happy with the results. Once we agree on a final price and sort out the postage costs, we’re going to have some Indie Travel Podcast t-shirts and hoodies available for you.

And before you go…

Make sure you enter the Rough Guides giveaway before July 16. We are drawing three winners to choose a guidebook of their choice.

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