Podcasts & Geocaching

Recently I bought a portable media player and soon got into world of podcasts. Podcasts are audio or video shows about various topics (if you are interested about something then there is a good chance that there is a podcast about it). Some podcasters make new shows every week, some more and some less frequently. At the moment I have subscribed to following podcasts:

• Amateur Travel Podcast | travel for the love of it

Good travel show where the focus is in travel stories told by all the travellers.

• Ante Up! Poker Podcast

Best poker related audio show out there: entertaining and informative.

• Sherdog.com Radio Network: “Beatdown”

This easily takes the best MMA audio show title. There are couple of other audio shows but they are not implemented as podcasts.

• The Rest of Everest Video Podcast

This is a video documentary about guys who climbed on a Mount Everest. It’s made well and it’s been shown in TV as well.

• Travel with Rick Steves

Less hardcore travel show but has some good information about places all over the world.

• Zencast

This is Zen related channel with lots of material about Zen & Buddhism.

• The Circuit - Poker Radio

Just found this one. It has lots of interviews with pro players.

• Chess Is Cool Podcast with Alexandra Kosteniuk

Haven't seen any other chess related podcast but this.

I also got GPS navigator as a Christmas present so I started a new hobby that I had already thought about some time – geocaching. It’s a game where you seek caches hidden by others from all over the world. You get coordinates to cache (or to some other place which contains a riddle, there are several variations), find it, take something from the cache and leave something to it + fill up the log book. First cache that I found was under one of the oldest building in my city :) It was also interesting to notice that I have passed close of many caches on my travels.

Also, when you combine the use of Google Earth (if you don’t have this, better download it right away) with GPS navigating then you can pick up coordinates of any place on the earth and go right there without need of any maps. I plan to use it on my next trekking trip as well as combine some geocaching to my travelling.