Travel Through The Senses

About this episode

This episode explores how our senses influence our travel experiences and memories.

Hello :) In a recent podcast episode, I talked about aesthetics a lot, and I occasionally touched on the idea of 'senses'. I figured it made sense therefore to do a full podcast on it, on how you, I, everyone uses their senses while travelling, and whether our senses affect how we travel, and the experiences we gain through them. Consider, too, how our memories of a place, of a trip, live in the senses, and we can easily be reminded of them if the same senses are activated in the same way after the event. So here's an episode on how senses affect us while travelling, and how we use them to experience our trips. Topics discussed in this episode are: Parts One and Two: Housekeeping and Introduction Part Three: Sight and Vision * Travel is very visual * What makes a good 'sight' * Photography * Being Blind (Part One) Part Four: Sound and Hearing * Loud v Quiet sleep spots * Changes in sound intensity - eg cathedrals in busy cites * Is what you hear what you'd expect to hear * The difference in sounds between home and abroad * Diversity Part Five: Smell * People don't think about smell until it hits them * Spices and food * Out of place aromas * Underground railways * Personal…

People in this episode

Host: The Barefoot Backpacker

Topics covered

• senses
• travel
• experience
• memory
• aesthetics
• sight
• sound
• smell
• taste
• touch

Keywords

• senses
• travel
• experience
• memory
• aesthetics
• sight
• sound
• smell
• taste
• touch

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