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Travel Tales with Fergal

Jerry Fish

Season 1, Ep. 12

The Travel Tales with Fergal Podcast is a weekly interview series that hopes to fuel listeners wanderlust while we all wait for post pandemic travel to hopefully return next year. We may not be able to travel right now but this podcast aims to share soul-lifting travel memoirs about day-dream worthy destinations.

 

The Podcast episode this week features the troubadour Jerry Fish who has travelled the world with his music. He reminisces about live on the road touring with an Emotional Fish and tells great stories about when they supported U2 on the Zooropa tour.


Jerry has a lifelong love of travelling and shares great tales of going to a kibbutz in Israel and sleeping out in the Sinai desert under the stars. He talks of his hippy trail days in the 80's in Greece and Egypt.

 

This travel Podcast interview series is out every Tuesday and guests talk about travel, sport, culture, people, food, politics, history, the tourism industry and life abroad.


I would ask you to please subscribe on Apple Podcast so a new episode will appear in your library every week. I would also really appreciate if you could leave a rating and review as it helps others to discover this podcast. To find out who is on every Tuesday please follow me on Instagram and Facebook @traveltaleswithfergal.


Destination Guide

Marseilles, France

U2

Athens, Greece

Greek Islands

Paros

AntiParos

Naxos

Matala, Crete

Aegina

Hydra

Golan Heights

Israel

Kabbutz

Jerusalem

Tapa, Egypt

Sinai Desert

Dehab

Yosemite National Park, California

USA

Rome, Italy

Glastonbury Festival

Electric Picnic

Burning Man

Derrynane, Kerry

Mount Leinster

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