Travel Devil – Adventures Without Guilt for Sustainable Travel
Travel Devil is your gateway to a world of sustainable travel, slow travel, and truly meaningful adventures. Hosted by slow tourism advocate Clara Francken, this podcast invites you to rethink the way you move across the planet. In a world dominated by mass tourism and cheap flights, Travel Devil shows how eco travel and responsible tourism can transform not only your trips but your entire travel mindset.
Here, we explore how to travel lighter, deeper, and with intention, whether you're interested in slow tourism, eco-friendly travel, overland travel, or discovering unique travel destinations across Europe and the world. With regular updates touching on Europe travel news and trends in conscious mobility, the show brings you stories that inform, inspire, and challenge the status quo.
Each episode features travellers, adventurers, and experts who share honest experiences about train travel, bikepacking, hitchhiking, thru-hiking, cargo ship travel, family travel, solo travel for women, travelling as a couple, moving abroad, and much more. You’ll hear what it really means to reduce your carbon footprint while staying curious, open-minded, and connected to local communities.
What you can expect from Travel Devil:
- Practical insights into sustainable travel, eco travel, and slow travel
- Real conversations about responsible tourism and slow tourism in Europe and beyond
- Updates and reflections tied to Europe travel news and conscious mobility
- Tips for travel safety, travel tech, and using smart remote work tools while exploring
- Inspiration for overland travel, finding cheap train tickets, and travelling on a budget
- Stories from nomads, expats, long-distance hikers, cyclists, night train travellers, and first-time adventurers
- Advice on packing lists, packing hacks, and navigating nomad housing
- Deep dives into local community projects and sustainable initiatives shaping the future of travel
Whether you’re into eco-friendly travel, sustainable travel, slow tourism, overland routes, or simply want to expand your travel mindset, this podcast will help you explore the world in a way that feels good - for you and the planet.
Expect inspiration. Expect laughter. Expect honest stories that make you rethink how you travel.
For more conscious travel content, follow @traveldevil.podcast and @clarafrancken on Instagram.
Travel Devil – Adventures Without Guilt for Sustainable Travel
17- Solutions for over tourism in Portugal w/ Marta Domingues
How can we visit Portugal in a more sustainable way? Today's guest is the portages Marta Domingues, a founder of eco-projects and a biodiversity activist.
Marta explains the problems she faces on a daily basis living in Portugal. Over tourism caused her not to visit Lisbon anymore, taking the bus can take a long time, visiting beautiful beaches with her kids became a 3-hour-queue experience by car... But all of those negatives make room for positive solutions.
How can we do eco travel in Portugal? Take the bicycle, visit locals, support communities, find small businesses to do your activities.. Marta shares very valuable information on how to find these activities and inspires you thanks to a great amount of examples.
You'll get inspired, listen to stories and get lots of useful tips!
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
- Background of Marta Domingues
- Public transport in Portugal
- Portuguese intercity busses vs trains
- Impact of over tourism on housing prices in Portugal
- How to find sustainable travel alternatives
- How to find great activities via Facebook, TripAdvisor and Google Maps
- What's the impact of expats on Portugal
- ...
Connect with Marta?
Instagram: @florestadaslebres
Complaints / Suggestions about Portugal:
visitportugal.com/en/contact
livroamarelo.gov.pt/en/
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