Hosted by Ann-Marie McCormack · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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This travel podcast series follows filmmaker Ann-Marie McCormack and her photographer husband Rod Gray on their trip of a lifetime, as they travel across the world. Having taken a year out from work, following their kids ’almost’ leaving home, Ann-Marie and Rod meet incredible people along the way. Travellers and local people from all cultures share truly inspiring, humorous and human stories. In this ‘warts and all’ series, they also share some top travel tips to show how you can do this too. Travel inspiration is guaranteed!
Ann-Marie McCormack hosts Parents Gap Year, a society show with 16 episodes published.
Japan is Ann-Marie and Rod’s last stop, before returning to the UK to pick up their much missed son Max from uni, before Ann-Marie’s big birthday bash. In Tokyo, they experience the wonders of a digital arts exhibition,
Ann-Marie and Rod face the madness of Manilla airport, where Ann-Marie’s sister Pam misses her connecting flight in a storm. Together they experience the vibrant nightlife and sunsets of El Nido and Rod shipwreck dives f
Ann-Marie and Rod do a Thai cookery course before reconnecting with their Bristol friends Tegan, Albie and Luke, who has just lost his mother that morning. They chat with a Dutch couple, who sold everything to move to Ko
Ann-Marie and Rod meet up with their newly tattooed son Sam, avoid being robbed by monkeys, share really fun times with two naughty boys on the Gili Isles and gain a great insight into life as a businesswoman in Lombok,
At a hostel Ann-Marie and Rod meet some brave trekkers who share incredible stories of The Te Araroa trail they’re on, walking from New Zealand’s North to South islands. They are wowed by the beauty of travelling through
Ann-Marie and Rod do a house swap on Phillip Island, famous for its penguins. Rod takes Ann-Marie for big birthday treat - a road trip through Mornington Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road. In Sydney, they meet up with A
Ann-Marie and Rod go down under to stay with Rod’s step sister Vicky, who along with her bunch of food foraging friends, travel to Tasmania. They are wowed by the Mona Gallery in Hobart and have so much fun camping on Br
SEARCH Parents Gap Year on You Tube to WATCH Contributors / Hosts: Ann-Marie McCormack & Rod Gray Filming, Editor & Graphic: Rod Gray Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-hou
Off the most beautiful beach ever, Ann-Marie & Rod fish with very fit Italians, reunite with the Bristol sisters and are guided by a local landmine victim on the silk island. Contributors: Izzy Gibbs, Sophie De Payronnet
Contributors: Bre Kerr, Faith McConnell, Luca Casamassima, Laura Moioli, Kim Rom. Music: Serge Quadrado (latin-jazz-loop-2), Szegvari (rotpb-latin-lunches-_-minimal-house-latin) Editor: Ann-Marie McCormack Sound Mix: Gar
Following a trip to the Sanctuary on their worst road ever, Ann-Marie & Rod relax for Christmas with sell-it-all Austrians, before Rod gets royally knocked off his throne! Contributors: Izzy Gibbs, Sophie De Payronnet, C
Ann-Marie and Rod get the shock of a lifetime, while travelling on a slow boat on the Mekong river. Luckily they have time to recover in the beautiful Luang Prebang! Contributors: Fabio Rosquete, Paula Postfeur, Fanny Lu
Ann-Marie and Rod travel to Railay Beach on a long tail boat from Ao Nang. They head to Chiang Mai with sisters Izzy and Sophie from Bristol and visit so many temples that they get all blinged out! Contributors: Svente,
Ann-Marie and Rod explore the wonders of Singapore’s diversity and chat to two musicians about growing up in Singapore’s cultural melting pot. In Koh Samui they feed elephants and get clear warnings about scooter acciden
Ann-Marie and Rod set off on a trip of a lifetime, having taken a year off work to travel. With their kids no longer at home and parents all doing okay, real life suddenly intervenes in Sicily in an unexpected way...in t
Welcome to our travel podcast series, which we recorded while travelling across the world and where we chatted to a diversity of very interesting people with great stories to tell! Ann-Marie & Rod x
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