4 Travelers on Life Around the World
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🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Seven months into the pandemic, we wanted to take a look at what life—and travel, for that matter—looks like for those living abroad. In our latest episode, we catch up with four women based in very different cities to find out. Lale chats with travel writer Julia Buckley about her decision to ride out the pandemic in Venice, and Meredith compares notes with illustrator Lindsay Arakawa about cycling in New York versus Tokyo. Meanwhile, associate editor Megan Spurrell talks to content creator Lee Litumbe about life returning to normal in Dakar, and director of strategic projects Lauren DeCarlo speaks with travel writer Imani Bashir about juggling work and parenting in her temporary home of Cancun.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. You're listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith |
| 0:09.1 | Carrie, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lala Eric Koglu. Hello. This week, we're doing |
| 0:14.4 | something a little different. As travel editors, we move around a lot, but this year has been different, |
| 0:20.5 | and we've relied on the women |
| 0:22.0 | we admire around the world to give us a glimpse of what's going on where they live. |
| 0:26.7 | In this episode, we called up a few of those women, based everywhere from Cancun to Tokyo, |
| 0:31.7 | to get a glimpse at what their life and travels look like right now. We talk about missing |
| 0:35.9 | being on the road, finally having the time to explore where we live, and much, much more. |
| 0:40.3 | First, Lale cut up with travel writer Julia Buckley, who we spoke to in an episode at the very onset of the pandemic, |
| 0:47.3 | who recently relocated to one of the most visited cities in the world, Venice. I'll let Laleh take it away. Hi, Julia. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:58.1 | Hi, thank you for having me. So the last time that you came on the podcast was pretty early on in the |
| 1:04.8 | pandemic and you had gone through somewhat of a travel odyssey to get back to the UK from Uruguay. |
| 1:13.4 | Talk me through how you were feeling when we last spoke now that you've had a little bit of |
| 1:17.7 | time to look back on it. Oh well I don't even know where to start with that. I think I was in a very |
| 1:24.4 | weird state of mind without really real realizing it. I hadn't quite realized |
| 1:28.7 | what the next few months were going to be like, even at that stage. I was still kind of |
| 1:34.3 | looking back at my trip and thinking how amazing it was and looking at the headlines of what |
| 1:39.7 | was going on in Italy and how terrible it was there. And it hadn't really, we'd just gone into lockdown |
| 1:45.2 | in the UK, I think, and it hadn't quite exploded here. And I still hadn't realized what was |
| 1:51.7 | about to happen. So now I feel exhausted by the last few months. But I also feel like I'm coming |
| 2:00.1 | out the other side now. and I feel like it's |
| 2:04.2 | easier for me to see or to start guessing what travel is going to be like. I've just this week |
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