Jamie Fullerton
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Writer/journalist etc Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast is out now www.jamiefullerton.co.uk
I spent Christmas with the amateur bull-botherers of Costa Rica, for the new episode of the podcast. Have a listen (or indeed a watch):
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5 days ago
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Billions of dollars spent, locals displaced, "savage capitalism"... I spent one month traveling around the controversial new Tren Maya train route in Mexico for the new podcast episide, out today:
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21 days ago
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The wildest, most ruggedly beautiful train route in the world? I spent 11 days on northwest Mexico's Copper Canyon train route for the new episode of my travel podcast. Listen/watch etc:
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about 1 month ago
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Mexico's booziest train is back. I took a teetotal trip on the Tequila Express, then spent a few days in Tequila town, for the new episode of my travel pod
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about 1 month ago
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I went to Islas Marías, Mexico’s prison island turned holiday destination, for the third episode of Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast. Out today:
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2 months ago
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I climbed an erupting volcano in Guatemala for the second episode of my travel pod. Please do have a look'n'listen!
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3 months ago
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I witnessed The Dance of the Little Devils in Costa Rica's Boruca village, for the first episode of my new travel podcast. Do have a listen/watch on YouTube etc. All links here:
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3 months ago
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It lives! My new travel podcast launched today. Please do point your ears at this:
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3 months ago
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NEW THING KLAXON: My new podcast Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast is out on January 6, 2026! But you can subscribe in all the usual podcast places now. Cowabunga!
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Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast is out soon!
YouTube video by Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast
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4 months ago
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Spent a month around 1,000km of Mexico's Tren Maya route for this:
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I spent a month on Mexico’s new Tren Maya route and found caves, cenotes and “savage capitalism”
Mexico’s new Tren Maya rail network whizzes tourists to jungles and Mayan ruins. But what’s it like riding this controversial mega-project?
https://adventure.com/tren-maya-railway-travel-yucatan-peninsula-mexico/
8 months ago
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Caves, cocktails and dances with deers: 11 days on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway route
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Exploring Chihuahua via Mexico’s Copper Canyon train
Mexico isn’t widely known for train adventures, but Jamie Fullerton found one of the world’s most intriguing rail routes in the country’s rural northwest
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/central-america-caribbean/mexico/copper-canyon-train-mexico-b2794432.html
8 months ago
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I rode Mexico's relaunched Tequila Express train to Tequila, for a BBC travel feature, which you could say was an interesting pitch considering I'm teetotal
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The return of Mexico's famous Tequila Express train
With "tequila tourism" gaining popularity in Mexico, a train taking tourists to the home of the spirit has relaunched after nine years away.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250523-the-return-of-mexicos-famous-tequila-express-train
10 months ago
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Just before Trump said he wanted to reopen Alcatraz I went to Islas Marías, Mexico's notorious former prison island, which now allows tourists to visit on restricted tours managed by the navy. Travel feature for BBC.
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Islas Marías: A notorious prison island turned natural paradise
As calls to reopen Alcatraz make headlines, Mexico's prison island tells a different story – of sea turtles, green parrots and a dark past giving way to new beginnings.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250512-islas-marias-a-notorious-prison-island-turned-natural-paradise
11 months ago
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Parsnip hands! Skeletons being inappropriately touched! Human chess! Lady Gaga played the first stadium show of her Mayhem tour last night in Mexico City - I reviewed it for
@telegraphnews.bsky.social
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Lady Gaga, Mexico City, review: more brilliantly bonkers than Katy Perry in space
Over the top? Definitely. Moving? Surprisingly so. Gaga’s latest stadium concert confirmed that a star is reborn
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/lady-gaga-mexico-city-review/
12 months ago
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In January I hiked Guatemala's Fuego volcano, which had a huge eruption last weekend, forcing evacuations. I wrote about my trip, and the potential risks of volcano tourism:
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Guatemala’s volcano tours offer local guides a different path—but at what risk?
Writer Jamie Fullerton climbed Fuego to see why for many locals, working on a lava-spewing volcano is worth the gamble.
https://adventure.com/guatamala-fuego-risks-volcano-tourism/
about 1 year ago
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The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam: I'm on
@theguardian.com
Today in Focus podcast talking about the late Imam Muhsin's role as a community and religious leader, and gay rights activist
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The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam – podcast
How did Imam Muhsin change the lives of queer Muslims? Jamie Fullerton reports
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/feb/24/the-and-legacy-of-the-worlds-first-openly-gay-imam-podcast
about 1 year ago
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Today North Korea opened up to Western tourists for the first time in five years. Usual rules apply: no free roaming, no insulting the Kim dictators etc. I spoke to Simon Cockerell from Koryo Tours and Lina Yoon from
@hrw.org
for an audio piece for
@theworld.org
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about 1 year ago
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Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was murdered last Saturday. He was pure love. Audio story for
@theworld.org
, featuring my interview with Imam Muhsin at his mosque in Cape Town. (Photo by Matjaz Tancic)
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about 1 year ago
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Bridges save Costa Rican sloths from road deaths: I headed to Central America to hang out with some greasy mammals. Audio story for
@theworld.org
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about 1 year ago
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The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir - my latest from Costa Rica, for The Telegraph
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The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir
The brightly coloured balsa-wood masks are ubiquitous in the country, and of enormous significance to the indigenous people of Boruca
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/central-america/costa-rica/costa-rica-dance-devils/
about 1 year ago
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Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica - my latest for
@theguardian.com
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Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica
As one of the tens of thousands to have fled Daniel Ortega’s regime, singer and ‘artivist’ Olguita Acuña says she has a duty to raise awareness of her country’s situation
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/17/songs-esistance-nicaragua-costa-rica-singer-olguita-acuna-daniel-ortega
about 1 year ago
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I went to Costa Rica's Boruca village to see the Dance of the Little Devils: a four-day ritual celebrating indigenous resistance against Spanish colonists. Audio story for
@theworld.org
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about 1 year ago
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Spent Christmas Day watching this lot get nailed by bulls in Pedregal, Costa Rica, where bullfighting is more like bull 'dodging'. Audio story for
@theworld.org
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over 1 year ago
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Olguita Acuna left Nicaragua in 2018 after taking part in protests against the dictatorship. Now, in San Jose, she sings songs of resistance and hope, galvanising the huge Nicaraguan exile community. Audio story for
@theworld.org
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over 1 year ago
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There’s a lobster hatchery in Cornwall that releases up to 50,000 baby lobsters into the ocean each year. I made an audio story about it for
@theworld.org
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over 1 year ago
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Community sheds are opening in the UK, offering friendship amid woodwork. I went to The Witney Shed, one of many sheds linked to UK Men’s Sheds Association, to see how the stereotype of the lone gent tinkering in a shed is being flipped. Audio story for
@theworld.org
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over 1 year ago
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The sound sculpture in Austria where you can hear a glacier ‘crying’: my latest for
Adventure.com
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The sound sculpture in Austria where you can hear a glacier ‘crying’
In an Austrian ice cave, an artist gives the dying Dachstein glacier a voice—via a sound sculpture highlighting the impact of climate change.
https://adventure.com/silent-echoes-dachstein-glacier-sound-sculpture-austria/
over 1 year ago
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I met Riyosuke Kiyasu in Warsaw and saw his somewhat unconventional drum show, then made an audio story about it for The World
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over 1 year ago
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“It’s the sound of the glacier dying”… my latest audio story, from Dachstein glacier, Salzkammergut, Austria, for PRX’s The World
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In rural Austria, someone wants you to hear the sound of a glacier crying - The World from PRX
The Dachstein glacier in Austria is nearly 9,000 feet high. But scientists say that it’s likely to melt completely by the end of this century. An artist from Cleveland, Ohio, was commissioned to creat...
https://theworld.org/segments/2024/09/06/in-rural-austria-someone-wants-you-to-hear-the-sound-of-a-glacier-crying
over 1 year ago
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My latest for The Guardian: Bad Ischl is the first alpine rural area to be awarded European Capital of Culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a place more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits
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Austrian town gets its lederhosen in a twist over modern art
Bad Ischl is the first alpine town to be awarded European capital of culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a rural area more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/aug/29/austrian-town-gets-its-lederhosen-in-a-twist-over-modern-art
over 1 year ago
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Two years ago a female Russian explorer, along with two friends, was arrested for espionage in Albania. She’s still waiting for the case to be resolved, so in the meantime has accidentally become Albania’s no.1 urban explorer. I met her for PRX’s The World
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over 1 year ago
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Bagpipes: big in Bulgaria. I went to a bagpipe festival in the Rhodope Mountains to create an audio story for PRX’s The World
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over 1 year ago
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