323: Virtual Travel Instructions

Nov 15, 2020

Naomi's virtual travel instructions!

• Look for music from the country
• Search on BBC Sounds (there’s a prog called World Music Road Trip and also sometimes stuff in From Our Own Correspondent)
• Also try documentaries, especially Storyville
• Find the best movie you’ve never seen from that country
• Internet search for recipes from there
• Look online for specialist ingredients
• Is there takeaway from there one could get?
• Can you do a few minutes of language learning via Duolingo etc? Just enough to say hello, goodbye, please and thank you?
• Who’s their most famous writer? Read a short story
• Have they ever had a movie up for best foreign picture Oscar, or best short or best documentary?
• Where would you stay? Pick a hotel. Have a look on Google Street View to see where you “are”
• Is there a board game (or video game!) from that country to try?
• What sights would you try to see if you were there? Can you find virtual tours online?
• What do people drink in a cafè or bar there?
• Can you learn to sing something that’s popular there or written there?
• Put the radio on all day from that country
• Change your Twitter/social media localisation to that country
  Is there a bath product/perfume/smell from there?

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