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EPISODE · Aug 8, 2025 · 9 MIN

August 8th - Race across Europe: a brutal challenge to get from London to Tallinn

from Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

Bram Houtenbos is a charming Dutch financial services executive living in south London. He also self-identifies as a travel nerd. He is one of the foremost contenders in the Lupine Racing challenges that require contestants to get from A to B via a sequence of checkpoints using only terrestrial public transport (including taxis within cities). I caught up with him in the Estonian capital after an exhausting race ... hear how he got on.This podcast is free, as is Independent Travel's weekly newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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