14 episodes
An Irish Girl And English Girl Walk Into A Bar Nicole Shamier
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- Society & Culture
An Irish girl and an English girl walk into a bar to talk about their favourite things. Nothing out of the ordinary? Well except the bar is on the tiny volcanic island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, a place where everybody knows your name, and the barman knows your order, a place where a Union Jack flies outside and it is 30 degrees at Christmas. This is a podcast by two ordinary girls living extraordinary lives.
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Shark's Valley Vertigo, Netflix and Podcasts
In this episode we kick off with Aine's traumatic break down on the side of the Shark's Valley walk, followed by a chat about our latest podcasts we've been listening to and series we have watched. Featuring: Black Mirror, Click Bait, Table Manners, The Moth, Hey Stranger!, Serendipity Soup.
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Stargazing and Mindfulness with Mark Westmoquette
In this episode we focus on Mindfulness for Stargazers and discuss deep feeling and the big outdoors with author and recent St Helena resident Mark Westmoquette.
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Travelling during a pandemic
Aine and Nicole, having been fully vaccinated, travel between 5 different countries on a 5 week trip in May-June 2021. Exploring and taking some R&R whilst testing negative for COVID-19 8 times. St Helena - UK - Maldives - Spain - Gibraltar - UK - St Helena.
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Discussing The Dig, Rodham, Teegarden, gin and valentine onions
It's February 2021 and Aine and Nicole welcome you to our first episode of series 2; we discuss the Curtis Sittenfeld book called Rodham about Hillary Clinton, the Netflix Film The Dig, an article about life in outer space, and why koalas drive cars and people put onions in their bathrooms.
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Season Finale
Round up of the most favourite things we have read, watched and listened to over the last 12 months and a forward look to the rest of 2021.
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Favourite Films
Over several Gin and Tonics, discussing movie theatres, memories of the smell of the popcorn, Bond movies, books to films, art house cinemas, Room with a View, Schindler's List, Love Actually and lots more.