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Nov 15, 2020 32 min

323: Virtual Travel Instructions

from The Cultures

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? Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

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