Ben Fogle
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s the start of Season 3, and who better to join me to celebrate than Ben Fogle? Ben is not only an award-winning broadcaster, fronting many of our most loved TV shows - he is also one of the UK’s most prolific adventurers. He has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, swam from Alcatraz to San Francisco, run the Marathon Des Sables (a 6 day ultra marathon across the Sahara Desert), raced across the Antarctica to the South Pole and most recently climbed Mount Everest.
He’s written nine best-selling books - many about travel - and has the enviable title of the United Nations Patron of the Wilderness. And speaking of the Wilderness, he has travelled to every corner of the globe while filming his long-running hit TV series, New Lives in the Wild, a notion that feels particularly relevant right now during lockdown.
Get ready to be transported to Guatemala, the top of Mt Everest, Ethiopia, the Canadian Wilderness and…Ayia Napa, Here, are the travel diaries of Ben Fogle.
Destination Recap:
- Taransay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
- Lake Chemong, Ontario, Canada
- British Columbia, Canada
- Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada
- Latin America
- Quito, Ecuador
- Antigua, Guatemala
- Bolivia
- Pitcairn Island, South Pacific
- Pleistocene Park, Siberia
- The Atlantic Ocean
- Mt Everest, Nepal
- Cornwall, England
- Ethiopia
- Lalibela, Ethiopia
- Ayia Napa, Mallorca, Spain
- Haiti
- The Great Wall of China, China
- The North Pole
- The South Pole
The Wilderness Collection for Barbour by Ben and Marina Fogle is available from www.benfogle.com
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Today’s episode was recorded during the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown. It was produced by Holly Rubenstein.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to season three of the Travel Diaries. |
| 0:09.0 | I can't tell you how happy I am to be back. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm a travel and entertainment journalist and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world |
| 0:22.9 | and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:28.0 | Well, what a few months it has been. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm sure for many of you it's not been easy on all fronts. |
| 0:34.9 | It's just been such a challenging and surreal time, hasn't it? But it really |
| 0:39.3 | does feel like a great time to be back because we're all able to gradually start travelling again. |
| 0:45.2 | The big news here in England is that from this Saturday, July 4th, hotels, campsites, restaurants and pubs are all able to reopen. |
| 0:53.5 | And with new travel corridors to many of our favourite European countries, |
| 0:57.5 | a summer staycation or a holiday abroad is an actual prospect, |
| 1:01.5 | something I really didn't expect to say at this stage. |
| 1:04.0 | And this season, I'm warning you, |
| 1:05.6 | it's going to give you a lot of wanderlust for your post-lockdown adventures. |
| 1:10.1 | And I'm really thrilled to say there are some |
| 1:12.6 | phenomenal guests coming up. It's been lovely to hear from a lot of you who discovered the |
| 1:18.6 | podcast during lockdown. Welcome, if you're new to the podcast, thank you so much for tuning in. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm glad it's been helping to transport you all around the world from the safety |
| 1:27.9 | of your own home. And while of course our current circumstances are kind of inescapable when it |
| 1:33.1 | comes to talking to my guests, I really want this season to offer you that same total |
| 1:38.2 | escapism and hopefully brighten up your day. This is the first season where some of my episodes have been |
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