Evangeline Modell explores the unlikely link between Mars, Antarctica and a World War Two bunker in South London, where they use similar methods to grow crops without soil and sunlight as NASA uses onboard the International Space Station. 

As we have very sadly come to the end of series one of the podcast, I have a special extra episode for you. If you're one of our lovely regular listeners, you will know that in each episode, I always ask our guests to share a 'pinch me moment'. So this episode is a compilation of all of our incredible guests from series one sharing their 'pinch me moment' stories. So if you don't quite understand what a 'pinch me moment' is yet, let me explain it to you. These are the tiny moments that happen all the time while travelling where you just look around and this 'wow, I can't believe I'm here and I can't believe I'm seeing this.' They are the moments that take your breath away, change your perspective or simply just when you pause, look around and appreciate how far you've come. We've had a great first series of this podcast and I'm so grateful for all of you who have joined us on this journey as listeners and our incredible guests. For me, at least, sharing these stories is really what travelling is all about. 

Series two will be coming soon with even more inspiring adventurers sharing their epic travel stories. If you think you would be a great guest on the podcast or you know if someone who might, please get in touch. From August, I will be based in Sydney, Australia for in-person conversations or we can do them over Skype. I would love to hear from you. 

I hope you enjoy this little compilation of series ones guests sharing their 'pinch me moments'...

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As this is the last episode of Series One, I have an extra special guest for you guys. It's my dad, Chris Modell. The reason that I wanted to feature my dad on the last episode of this series is because he is kind of the reason that Storytime For Travellers came to be. When I was a child, instead of bedtime stories, I would always beg my dad to tell me stories of his adventures over and over again and I really believe that this is the reason that I love travelling so much.

My dad first started travelling when he was 21 and got a job as a photographer on cruise ships. He did that around the Caribbean for 7 years until he decided to buy a boat with his friend and set sail on the adventure of a lifetime. Having never sailed before they embarked on a one year journey from Mexico across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand, stopping off on islands along the way. Once he arrived in New Zealand, he worked as a kayak instructor and met my mum who was backpacking - their story is actually pretty romantic. She was meant to fly to the US the next day but two hours before her flight she turned back and decided to stay in New Zealand with the man she had met only one day before. They then continued travelling together before coming back to the UK and have done lots of travelling since. My dad has now swapped boats for two wheels and has done motorbike adventures to places like Mexico, Vietnam, Iceland, India and more, writing articles for a magazine called Upshift Online.

In our conversation, we chat: being invited to a local feast on a tiny island in the Pacific, motorbiking the most dangerous road in the world in India and having dolphins lead his boat to land as he reached his first Pacific island - plus loads more... 

Chris's Instagram: @swaggrandad 

Chris's documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-mV1_ao5c

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