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If you don’t have any friends in the areas you are travelling to, sign up to Couchsurfing or the Hospitality Club and meet some new people. You can also network with fellow travellers on sites like Matador Travel.
Craig writes for a site called The Traveler’s Notebook. There’s a post on spending special events with foreign families which is a good follow-up to this episode where he talks more about their German Christmas.
If you’re in the mood for a visitor horror story check out listener-post ‘About travelling’.
Congratulations to our prize winners!. It’s our birthday this month and some companies have been really generous. This week we have a Bed Bug Central Bud Bug Travel Guide to give to Sinclair and Travoholic. We drew the prize from the subscribers to our bi-monthly newsletter. We have two more ebooks to give away next week, so join now:
We also had a Joby Gorillapod to give away thanks to the lovely people at Joby.com. Congratulations to Jeff who picked that up. We have two more competitions running, so check out the competitions page for more information.
Listener links for this week go out to Gary who is in Melbourne at the moment and to Jessica who is spending a year in a car. Really. She lives in the back of a van and is travelling around America. We also want to thank Fadly for her kind review.
Things are going well in our quest for 50,000 downloads before the end of the month. As of tonight we have 49,200! We’re certain that we’ll hit 50,000 well before the 29th: thanks so much to everyone who has supported us by spreading the word. After next week we’re going to back off on talking about stats and “meta” so much (thank God!). We have added a stat counter to the sidebar though: this shows how many people retrieve the feed each day. You can see it’s at 667 today and it tends to fluctuate up and down by about 20 a day. Why don’t you help us to push it up above 700?
Photo thanks to the Futuristics.
It’s your last chance to vote!
Written by: Craig and Linda
Posted on: Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Posted in: Accommodation, Podcasts
Responses: 7 so far
Great Website. I listened to a little bit of your podcast, and it sounds great. I lived in your kneck of the woods for a couple of years maybe Katoomba, Mt. Arapiles, Elie de Beumont, Piahia sound familiar? Good luck with your travels. (entrecard visitor btw)
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:22 amOne of my friends from high school sent me a text message and asked if he could come stay, deliberately avoiding the “how long for?” question. Turns out he was immigrating to Sydney and stayed on our couch in our tiny one-bedroom flat for 3 weeks! We are still great friends, despite it
February 25th, 2008 at 4:56 amHey Paddy. Paihia is certainly familiar and Katoomba is vaugely so, but the others pass me by. Still a lot of the world to see!
Robyn, what a great trick by your friend – probably carefully premeditated. I’m glad it worked out for you though, if I tried it I’d probably destroy any friendship I touched. I promise I’ll give you an exact duration when I come to Sydney (three months is okay, right?)
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