Ruth Millington's Extreme Holidays Podcast

Extreme travel doesn’t get more extreme than this!  In 1987, Clementine Smith and her boyfriend drove across war-torn Mozambique on the back of a motorbike so that they could get to Malawi for Christ…

In 2018, Sarah Tinsley & her partner took their 3-month-old daughter on a global adventure. Starting in Japan, they travelled to 8 countries across 4 continents, including remote parts of Costa Rica …

My Extreme Holidays Podcast is returning on 29 January 2022.  Hear more about it in this clip and how you can be a guest on my show.


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Creator, producer, writer and host: Ru…

A HAPPY 2022 FROM THE EXTREME HOLIDAYS PODCAST!

Here’s a very special New Year message from me and some of my guests about how travel can help your mental health. Never has it been more important to t…

Merry Christmas from the Extreme Holidays Podcast! I’m taking a short break over the festive period but tune in to this trailer to find out who is coming on the show in the New Year.  With 8 episodes…

In this episode, host, Ruth Millington, swaps seats and speaks to Don Robbie about the most extreme journey she has ever been on.  

In 2003, Ruth and her best friend were Christmas visitors to Bam, Ir…

In 2018, Iain Young, Andy Hocking & Clive Marsden took a road trip on Royal Enfield motorbikes from Kathmandu in Nepal to Everest Base Camp in Tibet. From the thick, muddy roads of Nepal to the heady…

When Ellis Charlesworth, an experienced sailor and former Royal Navy gunner, invited his brother for a sailing trip on his yacht, the last thing he expected was for their trip to end in disaster. Ell…

Most people wouldn’t dream of doing a detox never mind going on holiday to Costa Rica to undertake a 30-day water fast run by a fanatical leader! Elicia Miller talks about her decades’ long struggles…

In 1981, Gail Aldwin decided to travel on a double-decker bus from London to Kathmandu. Her overland trip took her across some of the most stunning scenery in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Fraugh…

Justin Barker, an American citizen, was just a teenager when he and his family were gassed and robbed in Cuba.  Justin discusses the effect it had on him and reveals his suspicions of who may have co…

In 2017 artist Hannah Scott got on her bicycle and went off to cycle the world.  She discusses life on the road, the challenges she’s faced, meeting her fiancé, escaping Nepal as the Covid19 pandemic…

The prolific Danish writer and poet, Peter H. Fogtdal, shares some of his extreme travel stories including contracting a deadly disease at a health spa in Thailand and nearly being kicked out of an a…

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In each episode, award-winning travel writer and adventure junkie, Ruth Millington - survivor and heroine of the …