“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this episode of the Veggies Abroad Podcast, Rebecca chats with Susanna “Sooz” Shanker, founder of Curiosity Saves Travel, about tourism leakage, a topic most travellers never think about, but absolutely should. Save it for your next flight or train ride and prepare to see travel through a new lens.

Share your go-to travel playlist or podcast with us. Whether it's road trip anthems or deep-dive travel stories, we want to hear and feature what fuels your adventures!

⏳ Travel more, live longer: Science says taking a week long travel each year could add years to your life. We’ll take that over a green juice any day.

🍺 Free beer for good behaviour: In Iceland and Amsterdam, you can now trade sustainable travel habits for free beer and spa days.

🚆 Train slowly: GoVolta’s €10 train rides across Europe are making slow, low impact travel way more accessible.

💼 For job seekers: Boundless Life is hiring a 100% fully remote Community Engagement Manager to lead the charge in building vibrant, connected communities for modern nomadic families.

Ubud Raw Chocolate & Cacao

📍Ubud, Bali
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With multiple stores across Ubud, Ubud Raw isn’t your average chocolate shop, it’s a tribute to Bali’s earth, energy, and artisan spirit.

Started by a team of local creatives and chocolate lovers, this bean-to-bar brand does things differently. Every silky, small-batch bar is handcrafted with raw, organic Balinese cacao and just a touch of coconut nectar - no dairy, no shortcuts.

They work directly with local cacao farmers, championing ethical sourcing and low-waste production, all while serving up chocolate that tastes like wow. From silky spreads to cacao shots, every bite guarantees you a real taste of Bali.

One bite, and you’ll never look at chocolate the same way again.

📍 You’ll find this experience (and more that actually matter) in TRAppe’s upcoming Bali e-guide. Sign up for the waitlist to get first dibs.

In this week’s What’s Hot & What’s Not by real travellers like yourself, say Hi to Claudia, the heartbeat of conscious marketing.

Meet Claudia Guerreiro, the founder of the Conscious Marketing Movement: Once lost in old-school marketing's money-driven world, she found her calling in Conscious Marketing — where purpose meets profit.

🔥 What’s Hot

regenerative coliving - a way of traveling where guests live, work, and connect deeply with rural communities, creating long-lasting benefits for local people, the environment, and culture, slow, intentional journey, support local economies.

❄️ What’s Not

beg-packing - where backpackers run out of money and start begging to fund the rest of their trip.

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