Can walking a coastal path really heal a broken heart? As bestselling book The Salt Path becomes a major film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Issacs, Wander Woman Phoebe Smith heads to author Raynor Winn's favourite 2-day section of the South West Coast Path in Cornwall - walking from Zennor to Minnack. Along the way she meets other hikers and discovers the power of simply placing one foot in front of the other.

Also coming up:

• Raynor Winn shares who she really thought would play her in a movie and explains why the path will always be her home
• Travel Hack: Prepare for your first long distance path
• 10 best coastal paths arounds the world
• Meet BBC presenter and disability advocate Lucy Edwards about traveling while blind – including on safari
• Pack the kit you really need for walking the South West Coast Path
• Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, who walked nearly 300 miles to process her divorce in 1822, is our Wander Woman of the Month

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www.Phoebe-Smith.com; @PhoebeRSmith

What if everything you thought you knew about voodoo was completely wrong? This episode Wander Woman Phoebe Smith heads to Togo and Benin in West Africa - the birthplace of the religion, with Explore, to seek out the real voodoo beyond the sensationalist Hollywood portrayals of evil dolls and sinister spells. Journeying to the rural north of both countries she invites you to experience with her the rituals, practises, dances and truth behind perhaps the most maligned belief system in the world. Come wander with her...

Also coming up:

• Woman with Altitude Elise Wortley on why she travels with world wearing a bonnet and Victorian bras
• Travel Hack: Make the most of your tour leader
• 10 incredible cultural experiences around the world
• Meet Namgyal Doma Sherpa a massage therapist on the Everest Basecamp trek with Lehara, helping heal hikers AND give jobs and money to remote communities
• Pack the kit you really need for visiting West Africa
• Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, is our Wander Woman of the Month

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www.Phoebe-Smith.com; @PhoebeRSmith

All across Britain, in some of the wildest places you can find, is a network of mountain huts - called bothies. But unlike shelters found in the rest of the world, these were never built for walkers. Former schoolhouses, farmsteads, gamekeepers lodges, coastguards lookouts and miners bunkhouses, there are around 100 buildings (across Scotland, England and Wales) left open for walkers and climbers to use - free of charge. For the last 60 years they have been in the care of the Mountain Bothies Association - an organisation who maintain and look after them and are funded by donation and run by volunteers. To celebrate their diamond anniversary, adventurer Phoebe Smith (who wrote the first ever guidebook to bothies 10 years ago) takes her mum friend Ellie to stay in her first one and speaks to the MBA's chair Simon Birch about what changes have occurred over the last 60 years.

Also coming up:

• Octogenarian publisher Hilary Bradt discusses how travel has changed since her first adventures in 1969
• Travel Hack: How to make friends on the road - safely
• Top 10 places to escape the crowds around the world
• Meet Katie Wignall, the guide telling the stories of forgotten women in London
• All the kit you need for wild swimming
• Nan Shepherd, author of The Living Mountain is our Wander Woman of the Month

SPECIAL OFFER: Use code WanderWoman at the checkout on the Cicerone website to get 15% off the Book of the Bothy and all of their guidebooks.

Contact Wander Woman

www.Phoebe-Smith.com; @PhoebeRSmith