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Take a trip around the world with Mark Gordon and David Harris.
12 NOV 2024 · Join Mark and David for part three of their Chinese odyssey. Beijing tells a story that is three thousand years in the making. Our podcast brings it to you in just under one hour.
This time:Â
- On the Shanghai-Beijing bullet train
- The truly Great Wall of China
- How to get there, when to travel and where to stay
- The making of a Peking Duck
- The Buddah of the rickshaw
- Top tips for travel to China -
- Wonderous acrobatics
- Where emperors prayed alone
- Mark and David become the stars of Tiananmen SquareÂ
- Welcome to the Forbidden Ci
- The fruit stinks. But we'll eat it anyway
Mark and David host https://www.jpost.com/podcast/travel-edition. They were the guests of https://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/index/index/lang/2.htmlhttps://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/index/index/lang/2.html
28 OCT 2024 · Jewish community member and guide Hella Kounio-Matalon takes podcast hosts Mark and David on a whistlestop tour of more than 2,000 years of history, in a city where Jews were the majority for five centuries.
This time:
- Alexander the Great's Jewish entourage
- They came in their thousands from Spain, Portugal and Italy
- Inside today's community
- A musical trip into the surviving pre-Holocaust synagogueÂ
- When to travel, getting there, lodgings and food
- Tracing the past: the excellent Jewish museum
- Europe's largest cemetery is no more
- Of Thessaloniki mansions
- There's got to be a Chabad restaurant
15 OCT 2024 · With COVID behind us, we thought travel and tourism would return to normal. But in Israel, that hope was short-lived. On Simhat Torah, October 7, 2023, Israel was dragged into a war on multiple fronts. Podcast hosts Mark Gordon and David Harris look at the industry a year later, in the company of EL AL's Chief Counsel Sharon Brownstone and Kim Melchior, the co-CEO of IGT - Israel & Global Travel.
30 SEP 2024 · Join Mark and David for part two of their Chinese odyssey. Shanghai is one of the world's great cities in every sense: population, food, business, skyscrapers and yes, Jewish history.
This time:
- In friendship with Israel
- Fancy a drop of port?
- Nanjing Road is just wall-to-wall people
- Michaelangelo in China? Well, in cocoa butter, anyway
- Tnuva and China?Â
- We take you down Chinese memory laneÂ
- How to get there, where to stay and more great travel advice
- How 50 companies are doing big business in a China-Israel innovation park
- Think tank thanks
- Sailing on the Huangpu
- The wonderful Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
- Top tips for traveling to China
- Farewell at 350 km/h
Mark and David host https://www.jpost.com/podcast/travel-edition. They were the guests of https://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/index/index/lang/2.html
16 SEP 2024 · Krakow is already gearing up for the 34th edition of its international Jewish Culture Festival scheduled for summer 2025. Our podcast hosts Mark and David attended festival #33 from where they bring you the sounds and sights of this wondrous city and introduce you to the people behind one of the world's largest Jewish arts gatherings.
This time:
- Krakow for Kulture
- Janusz has done this 33 times and he isn't even Jewish
- Not just Klezmer in Kazimierz
- The Muslim macher
- A side trip to the Galicia Jewish Museum
- Everything you need to know about a visit to Krakow - flights, hotels, kosher food and more
- It's a small Jewish world after all. Mark has a friend!
- It's all pants with David
- Listen to the music: Israeli, klezmer, African and Asian
3 SEP 2024 · We take you into the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan to visit what is said to be the last living shtetl in the world outside of Israel. We learn the history of the "Red Village" and visit its working synagogues. Then, we go deep into the countryside of this beautiful country that borders the Caspian Sea.
This time:
- What is the "Red Village" aka Qırmızı Qəsəbə?
- A tour of the amazing Jewish museum
- Mountain Jews' synagogues
- Where Jews and Muslims live side by side
- How to get there? Where to stay?
- Overlooking Shamakhi
- The tombs of great past leaders
- A blacksmith takes us behind the scenes
- Fine wines from saplings to samplings
Mark and David were guests of the https://azerbaijan.travel/ and https://azal.az/en/.
19 AUG 2024 · Shenzhen is the remarkable embarkation point for Mark and David's Chinese odyssey. The city has strong links with Israel, particularly in the world of technology. By 2035, transport chiefs say there'll be drone helicopters ferrying passengers above the city's burgeoning skyscrapers. Join the boys on this special voyage of discovery.
Mark and David host https://www.jpost.com/podcast/travel-edition. They were the guests of https://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/index/index/lang/2.htmlhttps://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/index/index/lang/2.html
5 AUG 2024 · The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 87
Mark and David host El Salvador's Ambassador to Israel Milton Eduardo Umaña Acevedo to learn about the great things to do and eat in this Central American paradise.
Then, travel writer Jessica Mudditt pops in to talk about her time in Tibet, how to get there and answers the question: Do you have to be physically fit to enjoy a trip to this spiritually- and topographically-elevated nation?
22 JUL 2024 · The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 86
Mark and David hit the road in Upper Silesia. They take in the main city, Katowice, before heading out to mountain-top villages, Jewish heritage sites and a whole lot more...
This time:
- Working at 320 meters below ground
- The deepest pub in Europe - cheers!
- The remarkable Jewish museum in Gliwice
- Where miners once lived
- What does Katowice have to offer?
- How to get there and other travel tips
- All about skiing in summer
- Drenched. Utterly drenched
- Cheese, wool and lace thongs!
- Which country are we in?
- Beautiful Cieszyn
8 JUL 2024 · The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 85.
It's finally happened. Podcast hosts Mark and David actually went on vacation with their own families. How did they each cope without their respective recording buddy? Mark reports on a trip to Eilat and a fully-kosher Mano Cruise sailing from Haifa to Larnaca, Cyprus. Meanwhile, David reflects on a week in Tuscany, Italy, beyond Florence and Pisa. The pair bring you details on where to stay, what to eat and how to make the most of your trip.
Take a trip around the world with Mark Gordon and David Harris.
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