01 Family Travel with Hospitality Club – Podcast Episode 1
October 11, 2009 by HeatherCowper
In my travel podcast series, I hope you enjoy my first podcast about Family Travel with Hospitality Club. In this podcast, I interview my Serbian guests, Irena and her daughter Andrijana, from Serbia, about their experiences travelling in England and staying with hosts they met through Hospitality Club.
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Heather with Hospitality club guests, Irena and Andijana from Serbia
I met my guests through the social networking website, Hospitality Club, which connects travellers who can offer each other free accommodation, help and advice when travelling. What was particularly interesting was that Irena had no qualms about travelling with her daughter in England, staying in the homes of strangers who she had met through Hospitality Club. They’d both had a very positive experience, which enabled them to travel cheaply but also enhanced their experience by making friends with locals who could show them a side of England that was a little different to the normal tourist experience.
Show notes
In the interview with my Serbian guests Irena and Andrijana we discussed;
- What Hospitality Club is and how you use it
- What reservations Irena’s friends might have had about travelling this way
- What steps Irena had taken to carefully select hosts that could provide a safe an enjoyable experience for herself and her daughter
- The advantages of this way of travel both financial and in enhanced experience
- The places in England they had visited and what they’d especially enjoyed
- Their advice for other parents thinking of travelling with children through Hospitality Club
- Music on this podcast was Venus as a Girl by Andy McKee at Musicalley
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Resources
- Website of Hospitality Club – A free network of people around the world who offer free accommodation, advice and help when they are travelling
- Website of Couchsurfing – another website that similarly connects travellers looking for free advice and accommodation.
- Going Local Travel – a website by travel writer Vicky Baker for travellers who want to travel local and break off track. Vicky travelled around South America staying with hosts she contacted through social networking websites and wrote about her experience in the Travel Section of the Guardian Newspaper
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Mark H on Mon, 12th Oct 2009 8:51 am
Excellent and enjoyable podcast. I find it difficult to believe that this is your first one. I look forward to #2.
Anna on Wed, 14th Oct 2009 5:50 am
thanks for pointing me in the direcion of Hospitality Club. I haven’t heard of that before but it sounds like a fantastic concept. Great to see it in action!
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Amy@Free Family Advice on Mon, 24th May 2010 11:12 pm
This sounds like such a fun concept. I’d like to learn more about the Hospitality Club. Great podcast. It’s fun to hear from people in different areas.
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Mark on Tue, 31st Aug 2010 4:50 am
That’s a really neat use of social media. Interesting ideas.
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The mere fact that one can freely visit other places and countries online helps in creating a virtual global community
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