See You In Sleep County

Tonight's episode of See You In Sleep County is the very last episode of this podcast. It's been a pleasure creating these stories for you all and we take a moment to appreciate all that we've poured into this project and all that is to come in our other endeavours. The last story of this series sees us back in the beautiful community of Tir na Sí in the spring of 2021 for one last journey into Sleep County.

In tonight's episode of See You In Sleep County, we begin with a chat about achieving one's dreams and then slide into a little musing about existential absurdity. Then we whisk you away to the countryside of Portugal for a story about rolling rocks and making dreams come true in the summer of 2018.

In this evening's story, we chat about Jazz's birthday and setting intentions before delving into another bedtime story for adults. In a little change from usual, Jazz will be escorting us into sleep county tonight, reminiscing on a sister circle held in a dark forest, and an encounter from some unexpected visitors in the summer of 2016. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In tonight's episode, Blake shares with us a poignant parable before we dive into our sleepy story for the evening. Then, in the summer of 2015, we explore a magical meeting with a new friend in the colourful city of Berlin. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This evening's episode opens with a surprising tale of unexpected abundance literally falling from the sky, before delving into the heartwarming story of finding a stray kitten and making her a part of the family in the summer of 2020. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This evening we start off our podcast a little bit differently with Jazz sharing a short impromptu tale from childhood, before returning to our regular programming for a sleepy story set in the forest by Liepnitzsee, arguably Berlin's most spectacular lake. This story is set in the magical summer of 2015. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This evening's episode opens like any podcast should open - with musings on the glorious, unlikely nature of existence itself. Then, we get to experience but a taste of all the beauty that existence offers on a little island called Pfaueninsel in 2017 for some good old-fashioned foraging. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we preface our story with a little chat about homesickness and the importance of family. Then, we whisk you away to the Portuguese countryside in a story that features Blake, Jazz, and a whole bunch of olives. This memory is taken from a journal chronicling the summer of 2018. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In our first episode of the new year, we talk about the importance of creating things out of joy, rather than seeking perfection. Then, we dive into a cuddly tale perfect for a cold winter's night with a curious gathering in Berlin, in April 2015. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In our latest sojourn to Sleep County, we chat a little about our sleep routines before tonight's story. The story itself features a first meeting of some of Jazz's favourite hippies at Festherum in the magical summer of 2015. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We open up tonight's episode with talk of Blake's latest musical endeavour and the freedom of creating just for the joy of it. Then, in our story, we hark back to the autumn of 2005, back in Jazz's adolescence, for a trip to a medieval fair with her best friend. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this very special birthday episode of Sleep County, we celebrate Blake's 34th birthday with the story Jazz promised him back in Episode 23. For something a little bit different than our usual fare, we offer you a view of the world through the eyes of a duck, as a reminder to simply be. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight's episode opens with a chat about Blake's desire for a canine companion. Then we ease into a lovely story of a shared memory in which the two of us attended a ceramics workshop led by another dear friend in the winter of 2019. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week in Sleep County, we chat about meaning and how sometimes it's best not to look for it. Then we transport our listeners to Faro, Portugal in the summer of 2020 for a tour through various artists' studios, culminating in an evening with new friends. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight we muse upon what creative maturity looks like and why it's more important to create for expression than performance. Then we breathe in the fresh alpine air and bathe in the cool mountain streams of Drôme in the summer of 2019 for this bedtime story. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this week's episode, we talk a little about how to choose what we spend time on, and the alignment of whims and commitments. Then, in our story, we visit Woodfordia, a very special place on Australia's Sunshine Coast, for The Dreaming Festival of winter 2010. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We open tonight's episode with a little chat about an exciting package that Jazz just received, and then transport our listeners to the snowy countryside of Poland, for this story set in January 2017. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight's episode is an extra special one! To celebrate 2000 listens of the podcast, we held a competition for a personalised episode of Sleep County. This story is about our lucky listener, Nick, and chronicles the overwhelm of his first day as an English teacher in South Korea. Thanks to our newest Patron, the Hitchhiking Teacher for supporting us! Personalised podcasts are offered to all of our Resident Tier patrons. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This evening we delve a little into self-care, and the power of removing 'should' from one's vocabulary. Then we travel to Bangkok in the summer of 2014, exploring an abandoned shopping mall replete with a flooded basement full of Koi carp. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight we hear of Blake's recent trip to France, and the therapeutic benefits of spending time in nature before we delve into our tale. This story is a recent one, occurring in the summer of 2020, and explores the simple pleasures of making silver jewellery with one's very own hands.

This week we chat a little about the absurdity of human preoccupations and the perks of being a duck. Then, in our story, we scale the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere in country Australia in the autumn of 2013.

Tonight's story opens with some thoughtful musings on play and the beauty of making time to do nothing. Then we enter a mischievous little adventure that occurred one night in 2009 on the Gold Coast in Australia. A special thanks to this week's new patron, Marga! Thank you so much for supporting this budding podcast. You make this See You In Sleep County possible!

We open this week's episode with a chat about hippy festivals and smiling at strangers, and then transport our listeners to a peaceful community project in the mountains of Portugal, set in the summer of 2020.

This week's episode opens with waxing lyrical about the joys of petting moss, and the revelation that touching moss is like petting the earth. Then we transport our listeners into the streets of Berlin in the magical summer of 2015 for a clandestine midnight adventure.

Before we delve into tonight's story, we spend a little time gushing over how much we love making this podcast, and how grateful we are for all the support and feedback we're receiving. Then, from the winter of 2009, we explore the story of a night spent with friends on beautiful Tamborine Mountain in Australia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight we chat about the power that art has to connect and to reveal the intimacies of our humanity, and then we drift dreamily into a riverside repose in Portugal, set in the summer of 2020. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we have an extra special episode of See You In Sleep County! To celebrate the launch of Blake's debut novel, this episode features an excerpt from his book, Lost on the Way: A Journal from the Camino de Santiago. Before settling into tonight's bedtime story, we talk about the Camino de Santiago, what it is, why Blake set off on this ancient pilgrimage, and why he decided to publish his private journal from his time walking 600 miles across Spain on foot. Links to the paperback, ebook and audiobook through Blake's Instagram: @blakefarha --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight's podcast starts with a thoughtful and honest conversation about mental health and self-care before we dive into Jazz's favourite story to date. This story describes a precious memory of roadtripping through Australia in the summer of 2011. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In tonight's episode, we open the podcast with a contemplative chat about the wonder of travel. Then we transport our listeners to Vietnam for a long drive through the mountains on a couple of rickety scooters in the spring of 2014.

There's a new fuzzy little member in Jazz's family and tonight's podcast opens with a chat about how everyone is adjusting. Then, another feline friend appears in this story, set in Australia's Gold Coast in February of 2009. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight's story begins with a chat about appreciating the little surprises in life. And then we jump aboard the Trans-Mongolian Railway in the summer of 2014, taking the journey from Beijing to Moscow, and then all the way to Sleep County.

We begin tonight's episode with some musings on yoga and the meditative quality of getting in touch with our bodies. And then, we whisk you away to a little village in China for a night spent camping on the Great Wall in the summer of 2014. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight we open our podcast with a chat about the surprising joy of developing new skills, and then talk a little about urban exploration, which is exactly what this story is about. From a journal entry dated in September of 2011, this tale takes place in a little town called Koolkhan in Australia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We start our episode with a little chat about the importance of allowing ourselves time to rest and enjoy the simple things. Then we step into an eery evening in January 2020, that begins with a misty walk and ends with a little adventure. All set in the south of Portugal. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We open tonight's episode with musings on Joseph Heller's iconic novel, Catch 22, before stepping back in time with some of Rome's more historically significant monuments. This story occurred in January 2018 and is based on a journal entry from that time. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

After a reflective chat about flow-state and the writing process, we dive into tonight's story, set at a Rainbow Gathering in Portugal. This story is based on an entry from Jazz's journals in the summer of 2019 and features a few of her favourite people. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight's story is preceded by a lovely little conversation about finding joy in the little things. And then, we shift into a beautiful hippy community in the south of Portugal, set in January 2019. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We muse on the curious and wonderful act of recording memories in the form of a journal before whisking you away to the streets of Paris in the summer of 2012. This story is based on an entry from a journal that has been stored under Jazz's mom's bed until now. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In tonight's episode of See You In Sleep County, we explore the joy and tranquility that can be found in travel and then delve into a story from an older journal. This bedtime tale is set in the muggy streets of Saigon, Vietnam from a journal entry written in summer 2014. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk a little about the touching experience of being seen by someone you love and then ease into our story for tonight. This time we're in a beautiful, lush garden in the south of Portugal, taken from a journal entry written in the autumn of 2018. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tonight we chat lazily about riding bikes through empty nighttime streets, before riding our way into the streets of Berlin for tonight's story. Based on a journal entry from the summer of 2018, our story features both Blake and Jazz, and an endless July afternoon. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We begin tonight's podcast by musing on the companionship that stories provide. In our story, we delve into the peaceful surrender of being caught in a storm on a wet winter's day in Munich, 2018. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this first episode of See You In Sleep County, you'll hear a bit about the purpose and passion behind this podcast before being gently introduced to tonight's story. We'll enjoy a lazy afternoon in a Berlin garden house, set in the summer of 2017. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app