There are lots of jokes about having a 'midlife crisis': you know, buying a sportscar, getting an unfortunate tattoo and trying to date people half your age. About 8 years ago I commenced a midlife crisis of my own. I am still living it, and I’m here to tell you that when it’s your own crisis, there’s nothing funny about it.
Mine was triggered by the breakdown of my long-term relationship, and leaving the career to which I had committed nearly my entire working life. And there was more to come.
I’ve spent the last eight years trying to rediscover meaning, purpose and passion in life. It’s been a tough time. I always had more overseas travel in the back of my mind, but it took until three years ago for me to feel like I had the strength for it. With no career, job, partner or house, it seemed as good a time as ever to head off for a while.
If you’ve ever found yourself questioning the big picture, or you’re just keen to have a look around, then you’re welcome to come along for the ride. I’m not sure where we’re going next, but perhaps that’s not the point. Whatever happens, it ain’t going to be dull.
Midlife Crisis Odyssey: a mainly lighthearted podcast about travel and existential crisis
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There are lots of jokes about having a 'midlife crisis': you know, buying a sportscar, getting an unfortunate tattoo and trying to date people half your age. About 8 years ago I commenced a midlife crisis of my own. I am still living it, and I’m here to tell you that when it’s your own crisis, there’s nothing funny about it.
Mine was triggered by the breakdown of my long-term relationship, and leaving the career to which I had committed nearly my entire working life. And there was more to come.
I’ve spent the last eight years trying to rediscover meaning, purpose and passion in life. It’s been a tough time. I always had more overseas travel in the back of my mind, but it took until three years ago for me to feel like I had the strength for it. With no career, job, partner or house, it seemed as good a time as ever to head off for a while.
If you’ve ever found yourself questioning the big picture, or you’re just keen to have a look around, then you’re welcome to come along for the ride. I’m not sure where we’re going next, but perhaps that’s not the point. Whatever happens, it ain’t going to be dull.
Midlife Crisis Odyssey: a mainly lighthearted podcast about travel and existential crisis
Having spent a few months in France, I think it’s fair to say I’m now an expert in French culture. Considering this, I feel it’s my duty to address a couple of stereotypes of French people that were popular when I was growing up…
Having spent the first day of my visit to the Pyramids of Giza getting a feel for the place, and venturing inside the Pyramids of Khufu and Khafre, I returned the following day ready for some wider exploration.
The Olympics are a two week festival of sport that has me enthralled. Consequently, when I arrived in Athens, I was keen to visit the Panathenaic Stadium to soak up a little Olympic history.
I discovered that due to both luck and good management, the kiwi is relatively common in the forested hills behind the town of Whakatane. And when I say ‘relatively’, that’s in comparison to places that don’t have any at all.
I had been too nervous to jump on the taxi minibuses in Egypt's heaving cities, but figured I couldn't go too far wrong in the beachside resort town of Sharm El Sheik. Riding the minibuses turned out to be a really enjoyable local experience.
The cemeteries of Gallipoli hold tens of thousands who died in 1915; every one a story of a life cut short by the tragedy that occurred here in this beautiful place.
Whilst waiting for favourable winds for our onward journey, I decided to have a look around the Castillo de San Carlos in Palma, Majorca. I was to discover that the holiday playground of Palma was once a place of piracy, plunder and peril...
After seeing the main areas of Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland, and learning of the horrors that had occurred there, it was a relief to find a tranquil patch of nature. Whilst enjoying the quiet and the late afternoon sun, I had a strange meeting.
Rising majestically from the centre of Old Athens, the Acropolis mesa supports an extraordinary collection of ancient structures, and an even more extraordinary collection of myths and legends.
While preparing to drive from Bizerte to El Djem, my friends told me that out on the roads in Tunisia, you must not, under any circumstances, show any fear. It didn't help my confidence.
Tired of the gimmicky, Johnny-come-lately sports appearing in the Olympic Games? Support the return of the ancient, spectacular and potentially lethal sport of bull leaping!
A few of my mates asked if I had eaten a Chicken Kyiv in Kyiv. Turns out there is less Kyiv in Chicken Kyiv than I thought. I have a table for two - join me, won't you?
Explosions rumbled, boomed and whumped as the Russians shelled the city from their positions just across the river. It was no place for an old lady bed-ridden with a broken leg.
New Zealand is pretty much made up of a whole bunch of volcanoes linked together by other volcanoes. Despite the risk of incineration, tourists like me flock to the Taupo Volcanic Zone to experience a little geothermal action.
There are lots of jokes about having a 'midlife crisis': you know, buying a sportscar, getting an unfortunate tattoo and trying to date people half your age. About 8 years ago I commenced a midlife crisis of my own. I am still living it, and I’m here to tell you that when it’s your own crisis, there’s nothing funny about it.
Mine was triggered by the breakdown of my long-term relationship, and leaving the career to which I had committed nearly my entire working life. And there was more to come.
I’ve spent the last eight years trying to rediscover meaning, purpose and passion in life. It’s been a tough time. I always had more overseas travel in the back of my mind, but it took until three years ago for me to feel like I had the strength for it. With no career, job, partner or house, it seemed as good a time as ever to head off for a while.
If you’ve ever found yourself questioning the big picture, or you’re just keen to have a look around, then you’re welcome to come along for the ride. I’m not sure where we’re going next, but perhaps that’s not the point. Whatever happens, it ain’t going to be dull.
Midlife Crisis Odyssey: a mainly lighthearted podcast about travel and existential crisis
