Hello and welcome to Passports Please. This is the podcast that helps you hack your holidays whether you are the packer or the slacker. I'm Chelsea and every week I'll be joined by my travel companion, James.

Hello, Chelsea is a holiday expert, whereas I just love a holiday. Yeah, you do. And whether you already know and follow what I do online as holiday expert, or you've just stumbled across this for the first time, welcome on in because we're going to be chatting about holiday hacks for everything from overnight buses to first class flights.

Yes. So if you need of advice, travel tips, or even have some of your own, then we'd love to hear from you.

Please send them in by sliding into our DMs on socials at Passports Please Pod or at hellopassport pleasepod.com.

And we'll help you up your holiday game by doing all the hard work for you.

Hello from Canada.

Hello, bonjour.

Yes, they say that here as well.

It is dual language, absolutely everywhere.

And the reason we are in Canada is to do an epic train trip across the whole country.

Yeah, very long.

From Toronto to Vancouver.

And the plan was to record it on the train itself.

But...

Too difficult.

It was so noisy.

It's a proper old train, very beautiful train.

We'll talk about it.

But bloody hell it's noisy.

It is noisy. It was made in the 50s. They weren't thinking, are, is this good for a podcast

recording? They haven't built acoustics first. No, they have not. I will be writing to the manager.

Here's the thing. We have, we filmed an entire video about it. So there will be lots to come

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