Jamie Fullerton

Jamie Fullerton

@jamiefullerton.bsky.social

Writer/journalist etc Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast is out now www.jamiefullerton.co.uk

103 Followers 234 Following 30 Posts Joined Aug 2024
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The wildest, most ruggedly beautiful train route in the world? I spent 11 days on northwest Mexico's Copper Canyon train route for the new episode of my travel podcast. Listen/watch etc: linktr.ee/keepgoingtra...

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2 weeks ago
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Mexico's booziest train is back. I took a teetotal trip on the Tequila Express, then spent a few days in Tequila town, for the new episode of my travel pod linktr.ee/keepgoingtra...

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1 month ago
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I went to Islas Marías, Mexico’s prison island turned holiday destination, for the third episode of Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast. Out today: linktr.ee/keepgoingtra...

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1 month ago
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I climbed an erupting volcano in Guatemala for the second episode of my travel pod. Please do have a look'n'listen! linktr.ee/keepgoingtra...

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2 months ago
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I witnessed The Dance of the Little Devils in Costa Rica's Boruca village, for the first episode of my new travel podcast. Do have a listen/watch on YouTube etc. All links here: linktr.ee/keepgoingtra...

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2 months ago
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It lives! My new travel podcast launched today. Please do point your ears at this: linktr.ee/keepgoingtra...

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3 months ago
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Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast is out soon! YouTube video by Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast

NEW THING KLAXON: My new podcast Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast is out on January 6, 2026! But you can subscribe in all the usual podcast places now. Cowabunga! www.youtube.com/shorts/u-LB0...

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7 months ago
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I spent a month on Mexico’s new Tren Maya route and found caves, cenotes and “savage capitalism” Mexico’s new Tren Maya rail network whizzes tourists to jungles and Mayan ruins. But what’s it like riding this controversial mega-project?

Spent a month around 1,000km of Mexico's Tren Maya route for this: adventure.com/tren-maya-ra...

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7 months ago
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Exploring Chihuahua via Mexico’s Copper Canyon train Mexico isn’t widely known for train adventures, but Jamie Fullerton found one of the world’s most intriguing rail routes in the country’s rural northwest

Caves, cocktails and dances with deers: 11 days on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway route www.independent.co.uk/travel/centr...

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9 months ago
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The return of Mexico's famous Tequila Express train With "tequila tourism" gaining popularity in Mexico, a train taking tourists to the home of the spirit has relaunched after nine years away.

I rode Mexico's relaunched Tequila Express train to Tequila, for a BBC travel feature, which you could say was an interesting pitch considering I'm teetotal www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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10 months ago
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Islas Marías: A notorious prison island turned natural paradise As calls to reopen Alcatraz make headlines, Mexico's prison island tells a different story – of sea turtles, green parrots and a dark past giving way to new beginnings.

Just before Trump said he wanted to reopen Alcatraz I went to Islas Marías, Mexico's notorious former prison island, which now allows tourists to visit on restricted tours managed by the navy. Travel feature for BBC. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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10 months ago
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Lady Gaga, Mexico City, review: more brilliantly bonkers than Katy Perry in space Over the top? Definitely. Moving? Surprisingly so. Gaga’s latest stadium concert confirmed that a star is reborn

Parsnip hands! Skeletons being inappropriately touched! Human chess! Lady Gaga played the first stadium show of her Mayhem tour last night in Mexico City - I reviewed it for @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concer...

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1 year ago
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Guatemala’s volcano tours offer local guides a different path—but at what risk? Writer Jamie Fullerton climbed Fuego to see why for many locals, working on a lava-spewing volcano is worth the gamble.

In January I hiked Guatemala's Fuego volcano, which had a huge eruption last weekend, forcing evacuations. I wrote about my trip, and the potential risks of volcano tourism: adventure.com/guatamala-fu...

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1 year ago
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The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam – podcast How did Imam Muhsin change the lives of queer Muslims? Jamie Fullerton reports

The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam: I'm on @theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast talking about the late Imam Muhsin's role as a community and religious leader, and gay rights activist www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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1 year ago
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Today North Korea opened up to Western tourists for the first time in five years. Usual rules apply: no free roaming, no insulting the Kim dictators etc. I spoke to Simon Cockerell from Koryo Tours and Lina Yoon from @hrw.org for an audio piece for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was murdered last Saturday. He was pure love. Audio story for @theworld.org, featuring my interview with Imam Muhsin at his mosque in Cape Town. (Photo by Matjaz Tancic) theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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Bridges save Costa Rican sloths from road deaths: I headed to Central America to hang out with some greasy mammals. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir The brightly coloured balsa-wood masks are ubiquitous in the country, and of enormous significance to the indigenous people of Boruca

The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir - my latest from Costa Rica, for The Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...

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1 year ago
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Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica As one of the tens of thousands to have fled Daniel Ortega’s regime, singer and ‘artivist’ Olguita Acuña says she has a duty to raise awareness of her country’s situation

Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica - my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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1 year ago
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I went to Costa Rica's Boruca village to see the Dance of the Little Devils: a four-day ritual celebrating indigenous resistance against Spanish colonists. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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Spent Christmas Day watching this lot get nailed by bulls in Pedregal, Costa Rica, where bullfighting is more like bull 'dodging'. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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Olguita Acuna left Nicaragua in 2018 after taking part in protests against the dictatorship. Now, in San Jose, she sings songs of resistance and hope, galvanising the huge Nicaraguan exile community. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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There’s a lobster hatchery in Cornwall that releases up to 50,000 baby lobsters into the ocean each year. I made an audio story about it for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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Community sheds are opening in the UK, offering friendship amid woodwork. I went to The Witney Shed, one of many sheds linked to UK Men’s Sheds Association, to see how the stereotype of the lone gent tinkering in a shed is being flipped. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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The sound sculpture in Austria where you can hear a glacier ‘crying’ In an Austrian ice cave, an artist gives the dying Dachstein glacier a voice—via a sound sculpture highlighting the impact of climate change.

The sound sculpture in Austria where you can hear a glacier ‘crying’: my latest for Adventure.com adventure.com/silent-echoe...

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1 year ago
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I met Riyosuke Kiyasu in Warsaw and saw his somewhat unconventional drum show, then made an audio story about it for The World theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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In rural Austria, someone wants you to hear the sound of a glacier crying - The World from PRX The Dachstein glacier in Austria is nearly 9,000 feet high. But scientists say that it’s likely to melt completely by the end of this century. An artist from Cleveland, Ohio, was commissioned to creat...

“It’s the sound of the glacier dying”… my latest audio story, from Dachstein glacier, Salzkammergut, Austria, for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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Austrian town gets its lederhosen in a twist over modern art Bad Ischl is the first alpine town to be awarded European capital of culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a rural area more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits

My latest for The Guardian: Bad Ischl is the first alpine rural area to be awarded European Capital of Culture status, bringing nudity and surreal sculptures to a place more in tune with classical music and mountain pursuits www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...

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1 year ago
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Two years ago a female Russian explorer, along with two friends, was arrested for espionage in Albania. She’s still waiting for the case to be resolved, so in the meantime has accidentally become Albania’s no.1 urban explorer. I met her for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...

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1 year ago
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Bagpipes: big in Bulgaria. I went to a bagpipe festival in the Rhodope Mountains to create an audio story for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...

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