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The Barefoot Backpacker

@barefoot-backpacker.com

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Podcaster ("Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure"). Travel/Lifestyle Blogger. "Gloriously Unhinged Travel Gremlin". Asexual, Non-Binary, Dyspraxic, & ADHD. (They/Them)

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The Barefoot Backpacker @barefoot-backpacker.com · Nov 23

Hi, I'm The Barefoot Backpacker; I travel the world in the belief that 'everywhere is interesting', & record my thoughts on a podcast, blog,newsletter, & occasionally youtube.

I'm also a hiker, runner, and beer snob. And definitely 'Queer'.

Find me via the link :)

barefoot-backpacker.com/find-me

Someone is sat on a rock (or large boulder) in a flat landscape covered in large boulders and moss. The sky is light grey and cloudy. The person is wearing a blue hat, beige t-shirt, blue denim capri-length jeans, and is barefoot. On their back is a large backpack with a water bottle in the side pocket. They are side-on to the camera, looking out in the distance to the left.

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Max @paisleystars.bsky.social · 1d

In today's episode of This is Totally a Normal Town:
I have been outside stringing fairy lights on my balcony, ready for several months of darkness. Next door has also been out, hanging out ptarmigan carcasses to dry on hers.

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The Barefoot Backpacker @barefoot-backpacker.com · 2d

Ha, that wasn't the only pauses

The Barefoot Backpacker @barefoot-backpacker.com · 2d

I had a bit more flexibility in my pod and still at least half of it ended up on the cutting room floor.

That said, the pauses between sentences seemed quite long when I was listening to the original audio. When I did a 'truncate silence' it, it shortened the length by about 6-7 minutes!

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 2d

For almost 25 years, AVEN has been working to help ace and aro people across the globe understand themselves and promote open, honest public understanding of our experience. In that time we've had a tremendous impact, and we're asking for your support to fund the next two years of our work.

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The Barefoot Backpacker @barefoot-backpacker.com · 2d

The original chat covered three Zoom calls, and her experience of editing it down to less than one is why i podcast and don't vlog.

Anyway, go have a watch and ponder if my daisy top was 'too loud for radio'.

You can call me V @vspearson85.bsky.social · 2d

That @barefoot-backpacker.com has visited 100 countries, and asked me to ask them some questions about it for their podcast. I'm not sure these are entirely what they had in mind
youtu.be/kwrzcJWGB2A?...

100 countries in 50 years: AMA with @RTWBarefoot

YouTube video by Victoria Pearson

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You can call me V @vspearson85.bsky.social · 2d

100 countries in 50 years: AMA with @RTWBarefoot

YouTube video by Victoria Pearson

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Clyde House Arran Holiday Home @clydehouse.arranlets.com · 5d

🎶🤦😂

Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

If it looks like a snake
But it lives in a lake
That's a moray

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Jonathan - The Royal Tour @theroyaltour.bsky.social · 6d

I’m so sick of people excusing violence against Jews, especially on Yom Kippur, because of anger toward Israel.

Would it be ok if people attacked people praying at a Russian Orthodox Church because they are angry at Russia and Putin?

No? Exactly.

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The Barefoot Backpacker @barefoot-backpacker.com · 6d

I have a new podcast episode out! @vspearson85.bsky.social asked me questions about having reached 100 countries in 50 years, including ones on topics as wildly different as colonialism and toilets.

Go have a listen!

traveltalesfrombeyondthebrochure.libsyn.com/100-countrie...

Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure: 100 Countries In 50 Years

Hello :) So, in August I hit both my 100th country and my 50th birthday - I arrived in Norway with three days to spare. Given these two momentous milestones, I figured it made sense to do a podcast th...

traveltalesfrombeyondthebrochure.libsyn.com

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Gary Ismay @goodbinary.bsky.social · 7d

I saw this ad on a website this morning. I’ve resisted clicking on it but I can’t work out how this “portable stairlift” would work, unless the objective was to wobble a lot followed by injury or death.
#shitads

Photo (obviously AI generated). It shows a purple contraption on a wooden staircase with someone standing on it. The purple thing is a shallow v shape with the middle of the v testing on a step and the top of the left hand side of the v on the step above. The right hand side of the v is level and sticking out from the middle.

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Simon, but spookier. @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 8d

Honestly, I don't know why nobody just tried asking nicely before now. Certainly less politically contentious than advocating for gun control.

Utah governor calls on people to ‘stop shooting each other’ after Kirk killing

Spencer Cox tells 60 Minutes he’s making plea after being able to ‘unsee’ video of Charlie Kirk being shot

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel H @rachelape.bsky.social · 8d

Some of us need supervision with matches anyway. Definitely a two person job.

The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 8d

It is the birthday of the novelist who wrote,
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.”
Mexican writer Laura Esquivel was born on this day in 1950. She is best known for her novel "Like Water for Chocolate."
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD

An undated color photo of Mexican author Laura Esquivel

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Jan @falcondalejan.bsky.social · 10d

That church in the middle of Edinburgh, whatsisname, er ...
#SundayPixWorship

In the centre of a very dark image is the tower of a church, brightly lit with floodlights through a mist. The lower part of the church is not lit, barely visible.

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Ajay @ajaykaul10.bsky.social · 10d

#Sunday

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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 10d

I fully expected the second part of that statement to be '...and Labour feels that the policy doesn't go far enough. We will implement it faster and better and more cruelly than they could!' like they did every time the Tory government announced some illiberal bullshit policy.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 11d

NEW - Keir Starmer says that Reform UK's policy to abolish indefinite leave to remain is " a racist policy. I do think it is immoral.”

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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 11d

I don't hate poetry.
I just hate bad poetry.
But since 99% of all poetry is utterly dreadful, I end up thinking I hate poetry.
**Dons flame retardant suit.
Seriously though, most of it is ... dire!!

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Emily Elżbieta Chomicz @emilychomicz.com · 11d

As a migrant, every company I have worked for has vastly benefitted from my expertise.

A company I worked for was pan-European: my knowledge of the continent meant that I was able to work with colleagues all over Europe effectively.

Kicking out migrants means lowering the country's productivity.

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rampancy @jancheta25.bsky.social · 12d

Contrast this with Iron Maiden, who'll give you a history lecture about one of the greatest military leaders who ever lived, and a lesson about a Coleridge poem from 1798.

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JD Shadel @jdshadel.com · 13d

when you call yourself an expat, i hear "i'm too good / too rich / too white to call myself an immigrant," and it tells me everything i need to know about you

i'm an immigrant, periodddd

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Dr. of Fnark this Snit @jordanjaunts.bsky.social · 14d

Please if you can help. My friends family survived the escape from gaza city, but are now sitting in the open in the south.

In order for each family to provide a tent and a bathroom, they need at least 1500 US dollars.

Let me know if you have anything spare to give.

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nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 14d

I think all dentists tell you that. Maybe they all have shares in a dental floss company?

The Barefoot Backpacker @barefoot-backpacker.com · 14d

Today my dentist told me i should be flossing more.

Well no, she actually said *Brits* should be flossing more. In my specific case, the 'more' was entirely superfluous.

As an aside, getting a 'hygiene' teeth cheaning is a marginally uncomfortable activity.

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Simon, but spookier. @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15d

People on Reddit have very strong and correct opinions on knives.

People on Reddit have very strong on correct opinions on *everything".

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 15d

A very long time ago during a fever dream this "joke"🙃 wrote itself
Woman in pharmacy "Can I have some aspirin? "
Pharmacist "Do you want real aspirin or chalk placebos, they are cheaper"
Woman "I'll take the chalk. They're for my aunt and she needs them more than I do"...

It was some fever I had..

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17d

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

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