On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I catch up with Dr Martin Goffriller.

Martin was a guest on the first series of the podcast, during the height of the pandemic last year. His episode titled, 'Thinking Road Trips' was well received by some of you so I decided to have him on again. This time to talk about his current vocation as an Associate Professor of Archaeology, working at a tertiary education institution in China.

In conversation, we discuss three interesting places in the world Martin has explored as part of working in the field of Archaeology:

Beautiful Butrint in Albania (5:30)

Oman, in the middle-east (11:00) and,

the central Asian state of Kazakhstan (20:30)

which links up nicely with stories Martin shared about his epic road trip with Momo across Eurasia in the previous episode. Martin reveals the fate (30:00) of his beloved Toyota 4-Runner too.

Martin offers some commentary on quarantine in China and gives an insight into general life there (31:00) and how life has changed over the last decade or two from first-hand accounts (38:30) from his unique travel experience...

Enjoy.

Further links:-

Castles of Mallorca PhD paper: 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235762345_The_Castles_of_Mallorca_A_diachronic_perspective_of_the_dynamics_of_territorial_control_on_an_Islamic_island

China University of Mining and Technology

http://ghs.cumt.edu.cn/96/f5/c16264a497397/page.htm

A big thanks to Tom Forfar for creating the title tracks for the podcast series.

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