Periplus · the Visagrad podcast
Honest stories
from the crossing.
In the ancient world, a peripluswas a mariner's logbook, the honest record of every harbour along an unknown coast, written so the next traveller could make the crossing. This is ours: real conversations with students from every corner of the world about the journey into Europe. The wins, the rejections, the truth.
What you'll hear
Three kinds of honest
The ones who made it
Students now studying across Europe, on how they really got there, what it cost, and what they'd tell their younger self.
The ones who didn't, yet
The rejected, the deferred, the still-trying. The stories agencies bury, told honestly, because they teach the most.
One corridor at a time
A season built around a single route, Dhaka to Madrid, Lagos to Budapest, Hyderabad to Berlin, and the people walking it.
Be a guest
Made the crossing? Still trying?
Your story helps the next one.
We record remotely, or in person whenever we can. Selected or rejected, scholarship or self-funded, first year or fifth, if you've attempted the journey into Europe, we want the real version. No script, no spin.
Tell us your story