Unravel Travel
David and Malcolm met at school when they were 14, and by some miracle, 40 years later they are still friends. They Interrailed together after University and for both travel has been a constant in their lives.
Malcolm has been an Engineer and run several software businesses, now he is semi-retired with a part time role in IT and a full time role in life. He is a long time traveller for work and pleasure who has lived in Singapore for 2 years, is currently dividing his time between the UK and Czechia and has been an AirBnB host for 5 years.
David worked in Accounting and Financial services for many years and retired young to start a business providing walking trips and tour group holidays. David travelled extensively and took very interesting long holidays during his working life. Since retirement he has become a migratory bird, overwintering in warmer climes.
This blog will be weekly and cover everything travel related including reviews of trips taken, the business of travel, longer breaks, short breaks, travel for work and living overseas. We will also be interviewing other people about their travel experiences.
Unravel Travel
Tales of Interrailing
In this first full and long episode Malc and Dave talk about their Interrailing in the early 90s, spilling the beans on newbie travel and the lowest of low cost travel around Europe. Talking about the formative effect it had on our future travel lives and the joy of not planning.
The episode covers all the major European cultural centres Paris, Florence, Hull, Amsterdam, Venice, Munich and did I mention Hull? We cover city center camping, sleeping on trains, sleeping on stations and how not to cook Calamari.
In the 2nd half we talk about our more recent experiences of rail travel and friends recent EuroPass travel experiences (Interrailing) how much it costs and how we might do it differently these days (with much more travel experience behind us).
Coming in Episode 3 - Corporate holidays (fitting in travel around business trips)
If you have a story to share or some advice on Interrailing just contact us at contact.unraveltravel@gmail.com
Show notes:
It looks like the campsites we used in Amsterdam and Florence are no longer there, but this one looks decent: https://www.campingzeeburg.nl/
Also see this helpful video for how to convert the six person seating zones in European trains into three beds: https://youtu.be/qB9Fs0ceUGI?si=1YQZtLJ2BavDgcMP
Our theme music is Traveler's Blues by Jerzy Gorecki from Pixabay (with licence)
https://pixabay.com/users/jerzyg%C3%B3recki-2233926/