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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Today we celebrate the Best of British, where a selection of guests from Season 1 & 2 will transport you to some of their favourite places in the British isles - all from the safety of your own home. From the Isles of Scilly to the Island of Rum; Shropshire, Yorkshire, Kent, London and much more, here’s a taster of some of the very best of what Britain has to offer.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this best of British bonus episode of the travel diaries, where a selection of my most memorable guests will transport you to some of their favourite places in the beautiful British Isles, all from the safety of your own home. |
0:21.2 | From the Isles of Silly to the island of rum, Shropshire, Yorkshire, Kent, London, and much more. |
0:28.4 | Here's a taster of some of the very best of what Britain has to offer. |
0:33.3 | First up, we have global food icon Rick Stein and model and actress Poppy Delavine, |
0:38.4 | who take us back to their first memories of travelling to Cornwall and the Isles of Silly |
0:42.8 | off the Cornish coast. |
0:45.7 | When I was very little, my parents used to take me to the Silly Isles quite often, so I've got |
0:51.7 | really fond memories of the Silly Isles and the first overseas trip I ever did, if you like. |
0:56.6 | And the Siliars are off the coast of Cornwall, yeah. |
1:01.2 | Not easy to get to. |
1:02.7 | Well, not easy. And in those days, there was no, there was a plane because I can remember the second trip going on the plane. |
1:09.5 | But the first trip was on the |
1:11.1 | Salonian, which is the little boat that plies between Penzance and St Mary's in the Isles |
1:16.8 | of Silly. And because actually quite a lot of the way is fairly shallow, it's got a very, very |
1:23.2 | flat bottom. And I was appallingly seasick I can remember you probably can anybody can aged about |
1:31.5 | six and the thing that I remember most was for some reason I looked into the engine room and there was |
1:38.6 | this massive engine smell of sort of diesel and smoke and feeling terribly nauseous. |
1:44.3 | You feel the nausea rising, as even to describe it. |
1:47.8 | Did you love the Silly Isles though once you made it there? |
1:50.4 | Yes, I did. |
1:51.3 | I mean, it's just a magic part of the country really. |
1:55.4 | And I think anybody that goes there feels the same way because, you know, |
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