The JPost Podcast - Travel Edition

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  • Take a trip around the world with Mark Gordon and David Harris.
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Episodes
  • Beijing, China: Eastern promise that delivers

    Beijing, China: Eastern promise that delivers
    Nov 12 2024
    Join Mark and David for part three of their Chinese odyssey. Beijing tells a story that is three thousand years in the making. Our podcast brings it to you in just under one hour.

    This time:
    • On the Shanghai-Beijing bullet train
    • The truly Great Wall of China
    • How to get there, when to travel and where to stay
    • The making of a Peking Duck
    • The Buddah of the rickshaw
    • Top tips for travel to China -
    • Wonderous acrobatics
    • Where emperors prayed alone
    • Mark and David become the stars of Tiananmen Square
    • Welcome to the Forbidden Ci
    • The fruit stinks. But we'll eat it anyway
    Mark and David host The Jerusalem Post Podcast – Travel Edition. They were the guests of The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
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    56 mins
  • Thessaloniki, Greece - the greatest Jewish epic?

    Thessaloniki, Greece - the greatest Jewish epic?
    Oct 28 2024
    Jewish community member and guide Hella Kounio-Matalon takes podcast hosts Mark and David on a whistlestop tour of more than 2,000 years of history, in a city where Jews were the majority for five centuries.

    This time:
    • Alexander the Great's Jewish entourage
    • They came in their thousands from Spain, Portugal and Italy
    • Inside today's community
    • A musical trip into the surviving pre-Holocaust synagogue
    • When to travel, getting there, lodgings and food
    • Tracing the past: the excellent Jewish museum
    • Europe's largest cemetery is no more
    • Of Thessaloniki mansions
    • There's got to be a Chabad restaurant
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    49 mins
  • Post Oct 7 reflections from El Al and an Israeli tour operator

    Post Oct 7 reflections from El Al and an Israeli tour operator
    Oct 15 2024
    With COVID behind us, we thought travel and tourism would return to normal. But in Israel, that hope was short-lived. On Simhat Torah, October 7, 2023, Israel was dragged into a war on multiple fronts. Podcast hosts Mark Gordon and David Harris look at the industry a year later, in the company of EL AL's Chief Counsel Sharon Brownstone and Kim Melchior, the co-CEO of IGT - Israel & Global Travel.
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    37 mins

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