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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

August 5th - Tall ship cruising around the Greek islands

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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After my Explora I cruise that I reported on yesterday, I have today talked to my excellent colleague, cruise writer Marc Shoffman. He has just returned from a trip on Star Clipper, a tall ship where climbing the mast is part of the appeal


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Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast. It's Tuesday the 5th of August. If you were kind enough to listen yesterday, you would have heard about my experience on Explorer 1, talking to

0:39.4

the entertainment's manager, Martin Moss. Well, today I'm delighted on Travel Desk Tuesday to be talking

0:47.8

to my excellent colleague, cruise writer Mark Schofman. And Mark, you have been on an even more exclusive and presumably

0:57.2

even more expensive voyage around the Greek islands. Hi Simon yes so I have spent the past week on a

1:05.2

star clipper tall ship uh yeah star clipper is the name of a ship and it's from a brand Star Clippers, which has three

1:13.3

ships in its range.

1:14.7

There's Star Clipper, Star Flyer and Royal Clipper.

1:18.6

And these are very different to the traditional kind of mega cruise ships you'd expect from

1:22.9

MSC or Royal Caribbean.

1:25.8

They are clipper ships, as a name name suggests with big sails a lot smaller

1:31.8

and what a lot of people are used to so star clipper I've written this down because I can remember

1:35.5

it is 155 metres long in comparison icon of the seas the Royal Caribbean mega ship the larger

1:40.8

in the world is 365 meters long I seen pictures. I've never been on a

1:46.0

Star Clipper ship, but they look very traditional. But I've also seen, and been on some

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