Dan the Global Nomad

Jul 20 2022

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This show is a flying machine. It gives you a vivid armchair travel experience like never before. Insightful, informative and entertaining, it provides a unique perspective on the people and places of some of the most fascinating tourist spots of the world. It is full of interesting facts, stories and commentaries that will hold you spell-bound. The show begins with travels in Incredible India and covers the world with journeys through Asia, Europe and the Americas. Before the show is over, you will want to pack your bags eager to hit the road!

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Spectacular Santorini - The Jewel of the Greek Islands

Jul 20 2022 37 mins

Novelist Henry Miller says “It takes a lifetime for someone to discover Greece, but it only takes an instant to fall in love with her”. I couldn’t agree more. The darling of travelers, Greece always fascinated me. But I also felt that there was something mystical about it. Isn’t that why we use the expression “Greek and Latin” for something incomprehensible? More than s

St. Petersburg - the Cultural Capital of Russia

Mar 28 2022 34 mins

St. Petersburg in my eyes is the most spectacular city on our planet. The Winter Palace, the Hermitage, Catherine Palace, and Peterhof in St. Petersburg define imperial affluence. If I were to see only one city in the entire world, it would be St. Petersburg. Venice of the North. With their magnificent museums and palaces, large and lush gardens, Paris, London, Rome, and Madrid hav

Luxor and Alexandria

Mar 03 2022 33 mins

The many achievements of the ancient Egyptians include designing and constructing massive pyramids, temples, and obelisks some 4,000 years ago. They knew then, advanced mathematics and medicine, irrigation systems, and agricultural production techniques. Egyptian art and architecture have been widely copied and carried to far corners of the world. Its monumental ruins have inspired

Global Nomad - Trailer in English

Dec 28 2021 4 mins

This brief trailer provides a glimpse of the contents and style of the various episodes of the podcast based on the book Global Nomad.

Marathi Trailer

Dec 27 2021 4 mins

This is a trailer providing a brief glimpse of the Marathi episodes of the Global Nomad podcast. It talks about how people’s behavior varies from culture to culture and also describes three distinct types of travelers. It is intensely humorous and will leave you wanting more. For that you must listen to the full episodes. Global Nomad are episodes are in Marathi and English. Howe

Aajoba Baa, Aaba & Gangudada

Dec 27 2021 33 mins

In this highly entertaining episode in Marathi, the Global Nomad talks about a few interesting events in his childhood in his trademark style with great humor and sensitivity. And then he adroitly describes a couple of most fascinating characters, Gangudada and Aaba who seem to have appeared straight from Pu La Deshpande’s famous Batatyachi Chaal. Gangudada reminds you of the Ind

Bangkok, the City of Angels

Dec 10 2021 31 mins

Bangkok - The City of Angels Celebrated American author Agnes Reppelier says: “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” How True!! Hope is all I have. In this episode, we explore the beautiful city of Bangkok, Capital of Thailand and truly the ultimate playground of the world. So, Sawadee khap! That is a common Greeting in the Thai language. Bangkok was ma

Baalpanichya Aathwanee

Nov 20 2021 27 mins

In this highly entertaining episode in Marathi, the Global Nomad talks about a few interesting events in his childhood in his trademark style with great humor and sensitivity. His account of his early book writing will resonate with the amateur authors and so will the story of his puppy love in elementary school. And then he adroitly describes a couple of most fascinating character

Cambodia, The Killing Fields

Nov 12 2021 30 mins

In this episode, the Global Nomad visits Phnom Penh and explores the history of Cambodia of the mid twentieth century. He describes the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the despotic rule of Pol Pot in graphic detail ending with the breathtaking story of Nrong Chan Phal, a child survivor of the brutal S-21 prison. Phnom Penh today is much like the Bangkok of forty years ago. The similari

Angkor Wat, The Largest Hindu Temple

Oct 24 2021 19 mins

French novelist Gustave Flaubert says: “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” The great pyramids of Giza and the temples of Luxor created that feeling in me. I experienced exactly that once again when I visited Angkor Wat in Cambodia. At 1.3 billion, India’s population is the second largest in the world and it is projected to become the