Travelling Through... London, the World and Life

036 The Zigzaggy Path of Life - KULI SINGH talks about Taking Kuli’s Kitchen Online

KULWINDER (KULI) SINGH is a Londoner. He studied at Cambridge and went down the traditional employment path into a corporate job in technology with the aim of earning a good living to do the things he wanted to do in life - this included travelling. Through his travels, Kuli's love of food and knowledge of different cultures across the continents has grown and with it his love to cook and experiment with different styles and tastes.
Kuli's palette as a child was developed by his Mum's home cooked traditional Punjab dishes and it was not until after University that Kuli began to skill-up in the culinary department. Now some decades on, he has launched KULI'S KITCHEN as a platform to teach cooking, host supper clubs and currently he has been involved in a number of projects during these challenging pandemic times where he offers people the opportunity to cook differently, eat healthily, and bring balance and general well-being into their lives supported by other practices like yoga and meditation.
Kuli and his colleague Claudia will be hosting another Delicious Nights In this Saturday, 27th March 2021 so check out the links below for more details. As it is on Zoom you can join live from all over the world - time differences permitting!
Tune in for this fascinating podcast chat with Kuli and his thoughts on London, the world, and life.
To KNOW MORE about KULI and KULI'S KITCHEN follow these links:
Instagram @Kulis_Kitchen : https://www.instagram.com/p/CMUUY9EnTpc/
Kuli's channel on YouTube : https://youtube.com/channel/UCPf13wJjaCg42v5saXGnAAw
Kuli's website : http://kulinarycapital.co.uk/
JOIN This Saturday's DINNER NIGHTS IN https://www.ucciwellness.com/experiences
Kuli's colleague Claudia @ucciwellness : https://www.instagram.com/ucciwellness/
The Lodge @thelodge.space : https://www.instagram.com/thelodge.space/
 
TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA and JOIN HER MAILING LIST please go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!
AND FINALLY, a big thanks to Kuli for hosting this podcast chat as he cooked and we talked.
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035 If You Don’t Notice Them, They’re Doing A Good Job - PAUL KAYE talks about Language and European Borders

PAUL KAYE is from Bolton in the UK. He studied for a year in France - his first pure language immersion experience. After University, Paul completed TEFL training with the idea of teaching English in Hungary but instead he ended up in Slovakia for three and a half years as a teacher, broadcaster and journalist. This was a seminal part in his life and set the stage for the many work, life and travel experiences that followed.
Paul now works as a translator for the EU. He was seconded to the UK in 2014 to facilitate initiatives to promote language learning in the UK. This secondment ended in early 2020. He would normally have returned to Brussels but there was nothing normal about 2020 so he is currently working remotely from London.
Paul has many interests, many of which have intersected with his working career over the years. These include cross-country skiing, cycling a number of Eastern Europe country borders, photography and documentary writing (he has published three books - see links below), travel, language learning, and a follower of both cricket and football. Paul's biggest claim to fame to date was acting as interpreter for Sir Alex Ferguson when Manchester United played Slovakia in the 1990's.
This is Paul's inspiring story and thoughts on London, the world and life.
You can find out more about Paul following these links:
Paul has self-published three books:
FRAGMENTS: The Remains of the Iron Curtain on the Ground and in the Mind 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall: https://www.blurb.com/b/1258870-fragments-2nd-corrected-edition
THE DANUBE on Two Wheels: https://www.blurb.com/b/2154862-the-danube-on-two-wheels-paul-kaye
THE VELVET BORDER: Exploring the Czech-Slovak Divide Twenty Years after the Split: https://www.blurb.com/b/3998689-the-velvet-border
You can follow Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulkayeeulangs?lang=en
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TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA and JOIN HER MAILING LIST please go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!
AND FINALLY, a big thanks to Battersea Park for hosting our podcast chat as we walked and talked.
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034 It Hurts, But That’s My Story, My Truth - WILL DYSON talks of Being A Part of London’s Recent History

WILL DYSON is a born and bred Londoner. After a short spell away studying Geography at Manchester University, Will returned to London and has worked in several of the city's central businesss improvement districts (BIDS) including Waterloo, Baker Street and currently Bond Street/Oxford Street.
Will acknowledges that London has many faces and he understands its strengths and vulnerabilities as well as its harsh sides. In recent years Will faced his biggest challenge with London; the processing of personal trauma and injury as a result of the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack of March 2017.
Will is passionate about cities, not only London, and he has travelled widely to experience and understand them first hand. He says that places which resonate with him the most are those with which he associates true meaning.
This is Will's inspiring story about London, the world and life.
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To find out more about Will Dyson's professional life click here:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/will-dyson-97b3a0b2
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TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA you can go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!
AND FINALLY, a big thanks to King George's Park, Wandsworth Cemetery, Wandsworth Common and Clapham Common for hosting our podcast chat as we walked and talked.

033 EVOO The Holy Grail Of Food? - SARAH WOLFERSTAN talks about Olive Oil and Sicily

SARAH WOLFERSTAN trained as an archaelologist. She has worked for the United Nations, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and the Council of Europe (CoE) on various cultural heritage projects and is now affiliated to UCL in London in the Institute of Archaeology.
Sarah lives with her Sicilian husband and children in Malmesbury, Wiltshire however they continue to have strong links with Sicily, cultivating and expanding her adopted Sicilian family's olive groves. The family spent 18 months in inland Sicily, learning and understanding how to cultivate and harvest olives to get the most out of their groves. They set up Alivu Sicily and now import extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) to the UK although depending on what each year's harvest yields, there is either plenty to go around or only the lucky few manage to secure a few bottles of this precious liquid.
Sarah has become an ambassador for extra virgin olive oil and its huge health benefits. She is enthusiastically spreading the word to anyone who will listen and I urge you to tune in to this inspiring and eye opening podcast episode - a brief foray into the world of extra virgin olive oil and what we should be looking for while standing in front of the shelves of olive oil bottles in the supermarket.
On SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY you can tune into SARAH'S OLIVE OIL ONLINE TASTING COURSE hosted by Context Travel. To learn more click on this link https://conversations.contexttravel.com/collections/seminars/products/olive-oil-tasting
TO KNOW MORE ABOUT SARAH and ALIVU SICILIY...
The blog: https://alivublog.wordpress.com/category/olive-oil/
The website: https://www.alivusicily.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alivusicily/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alivusicily
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TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA you can go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!
AND FINALLY, thanks to Zoom and Audacity for hosting our podcast chat!

032 When A Smile Means More Than Any Verbal Compliment - Your Podcast Host talks (a little) about Her Life So Far...

EMMA CARMICHAEL is normally the Travelling Through Podcast host but in this episode, she's swapped seats to be interviewed by her partner Stephen Marriott who is soon to launch his own podcast series, Marriott's Side Trips.
Emma was brought up in Edinburgh and moved to London when she was 20 years old. In her own words she did "everything upside down and back to front" and believes that no choices you make in life need be forever, it's a case of knowing when to let go.
Life is short, and can be cut even shorter, so in her mind it's best to make the most of each day. An adventure doesn't necessarily mean travelling far, it can begin on your doorstep.
We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast about Emma's early life, growing up, moving to London, working, travelling, and eventually taking on a professional career which took her to the Balkans as part of a post-conflict cultural heritage programme with the Council of Europe - and all this before returning to London to fulfil her bookshop-cafe dream in Waterloo, London SE1 (2014-2019). If you want to learn a little bit about the life of the woman from the bookshop and now the Travelling Through podcast host, this podcast episode is for you :) - enjoy.
TO KNOW MORE about EMMA - this week's guest but normally your podcast host - PLEASE go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
AND to purchase a copy of her Balkan travel memoir DRIVING TITO just click here: https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/book
TO KNOW MORE about STEPHEN MARRIOTT - this week's podcast guest-host PLEASE go to https://stephenrmarriott.com/
THANKS to MARISKA MARTINA at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!

031 Finding Pockets Of Time To Be Creative - CALI BIRD talks about Being An Author

CALI BIRD is the author of Don't Give Up Your Day Job and has recently self-published her first fiction story Tales of the Countess which will form part of a series of books about the 'Countess'.
Cali was born in Bedfordshire and lived a considerable part of her early adulthood in the Waterloo and Kennington areas of London. Although now back in Bedfordshire, Cali always stays in Waterloo whenever she comes to London for work. On this occasion, for our podcast chat, we walked and talked in the nearby Archbishop's Park - a favourite haunt of hers and incidentally mine while I was running my bookshop in Lower Marsh.
Cali is a true creative. She blogs about creativity, she writes articles posted to Medium, she is now the author of both a non-fiction and fiction book and she managed to juggle all this creativty whilst also holding down an intense part-time job as a software consultant.
Cali has travelled widely and although more settled these days, she hopes to travel the lengths and breadths of the States on a huge road trip. This is Cali's inspiring story about London, the world and life. Apologies in advance for any sound interference - it was a noise challenged walk and my microphone got soaked in the torrential rain!
To find out more about Cali Bird and/or to buy her books here are some links:
www.calibird.com
www.dontgiveupyourdayjob.co.uk
Twitter: @calibird : https://twitter.com/calibird?lang=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GentleCreative/
Latest blog: https://gentlecreative.com/unlocking-big-magic-conversations-about-creativity-episode1/
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TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA you can go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!
AND FINALLY, a big thanks to Archbishop's Park for hosting our podcast chat as we walked and talked.
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030 Don’t Look Back And Regret Anything - JO THWAITES talks about her Life In London

JO THWAITES has been in London for over 40 years. Jo was born in Forfar and brought up in Aberdeen in the north of Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh University, spent six months in Australia before landing in London in the 1970s. She considers London home.
Jo was keen to support many activist causes in London. She is a stalwart supporter of the Labour Party. She worked for Islington Council and studied Building Surveying part-time. She joined Historic Royal Palaces and was involved in key projects at all six palaces under HRP's remit. She was awarded an MBE for her outstanding contribution towards the Kew Palace project involving an extensive restoration and conservation project spanning several years after which time the Palace is now open to the public once more.
Jo has experienced London through many good times and bad, and these are her reflections on living in this amazing city with its wealth of architecture and cultural heritage from the Victorian sewer systems to the new and much talked about sculpture recently unveiled in Newington Green. Created by British sculptor Maggi Hambling, the statue commemorates Mary Wollstonecraft - considered by many to be the Mother of feminism; writer and philosopher. If you are in London, go take a look and decide for yourself what you think about it.
You can contact Jo through LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jo-thwaites-6a460027
Jo talks about the following:
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: https://www.spab.org.uk/
The Council on Training for Architectural Conservation: https://www.cotac.global/
Historic Royal Palaces: https://www.hrp.org.uk/
Sculptor, Maggi Hambling: http://www.maggihambling.com/
TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA you can go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!
AND FINALLY, a big thanks to Clissold Park and Newington Green for partially hosting our podcast chat and we walked and talked.
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029 For The Love of Lorca And More - JORGE GARRIZ talks about Romancero Books Online Bookshop

JORGE GARRIZ is from the Spanish region of Navarra, close to Pamplona. He studied Fine Arts in Valencia and Bilbao after which he ended up in Barcelona with the idea of studying an MA. Instead, he came to London on a two-month grant to learn English. Ten years later he has a number of key jobs under his belt working for architectural practices in hospitality and office management. London has become Jorge's home and while furloughed during the first 2020 lockdown, Jorge realised he finally had time to create and implement the first stages of his dream project. By June 2020 Romancero Books was born and books written in the Spanish language are being sold online to a hungry tribe of book lovers and the spanish speaking UK diaspora who are desperate to be able to access and read books in their mother tongue. Jorge's next steps are to provide spanish-written books in English and he is partnering up with small publishing houses to make this happen.
Jorge worked in the evenings for Travelling Through's events for a short while before his day job took him to another part of London. Now that Romancero Books is live, we are keen to support him in any way we can and we hope this podcast will resonate and inspire you and your Spanish friends living in the UK to support him too - please check out the crowdfunding initiative he is involved wtih through the Mayor of London's crowdfunding scheme.
Meanwhile, tune in to this week's podcast and be carried away by the warmth and sincerity of Jorge's business quest to bring the Spanish language to an ever wider audience and in so doing support books, authors and the oh so important personal service that small businesses bring to us individually as well as to our communities.
TO SUPPORT ROMANCERO BOOKS THROUGH THE MAYOR OF LONDON'S CROWDFUNDING SCHEME, PLEASE CLICK HERE:
https://payitforward.london.gov.uk/romancero-books
YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH JORGE GARRIZ HERE:
email: hola@romancerobooks.co.uk
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/romancerobooks/?hl=en 
CHECK OUT ROMANCERO BOOKS ONLINE BOOKSHOP HERE:
website: https://www.romancerobooks.co.uk/
Romancero Books is now on Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/romancerobooks
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TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA you can go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/
THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!
AND FINALLY, a big thanks to Workspace Brickfields in Hoxton for hosting our podcast chat - and safely storing my bicycle - so we could be out of the cold on an early December evening.
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