Show Notes
From a childhood trip to Pakistan met by fifty excited relatives to a middle-of-the-night bear encounter in the Canadian Rockies, Dr. Amir Khan's life has been shaped by family, adventure and the pull of travel. In this episode of Routes from LNER, the GP and broadcaster joins Jenni on the train to Bradford to talk about growing up as the only boy among six sisters, why Yorkshire will always be home, and the trips that have stayed with him.
Amir reflects on his father's three-week bus journey from Pakistan to the UK, long before Amir himself made the trip and was welcomed with flower garlands and endless home-cooked meals by relatives he'd never met. He shares stories of backpacking through Central and South America during his medical elective, and working as a GP in the same Bradford community he grew up in.
There's plenty of talk about switching off too, from early starts on the LNER to London and his devotion to seat L13, to recent holidays in Mallorca and a bucket-list dream of tracing the Silk Route through Kazakhstan. Amir also opens up about the volunteer medical work in Malawi that humbled him, his love of running before sunrise, and why, no matter how far he travels, he could never live more than 40 minutes from his mum.
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