Beverley Knight
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is the queen of British Soul, a West End superstar, and an Olivier-award winner - Beverley Knight. If you've ever swayed to the rhythms of Beverley’s songs like "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" or "Come as You Are," you know that Beverley's voice has the power to transport you to another dimension. But what about the destinations that have transported her? She's also a seasoned traveler with a passport filled to the brim with stamps from around the world and today, she's going to take us on a journey through her most meaningful travel experiences, from New York to Brazil, Jamaica to The Bahamas, with such passion, and clear love of travel - she's got stories that will make your wanderlust soar!
So get ready to join us as we explore the world through the eyes and the incredible voice of the one and only Beverley Knight.
Destination Recap:
- Datça Peninsula, Turkey
- Istanbul, Turkey
- New York City, USA
- Tea and Sympathy, New York City, USA
- Sylvia’s, Harlem, New York City, USA
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Jamaica
- London
- Harbour Island, Bahamas
- Chicago, USA
- The Far East - Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, China
Beverley’s album, The Fifth Chapter, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and here each week I'll be speaking to a very |
| 0:15.2 | special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:19.5 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the |
| 0:22.6 | first place they fell in love with to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their |
| 0:27.1 | travel bucket list. We'll be uncovering their adventures around the world and the travel |
| 0:31.8 | experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. Well, I hope everyone is having a good start to the week. |
| 0:39.8 | It feels as though autumn has finally arrived here in London. I'm just back from a week in Poolia, |
| 0:46.5 | a much more balmy week, I should say, in the south of Italy, which I totally fell in love with. |
| 0:53.2 | Poolia is a region that has become so popular of late. I know so |
| 0:57.7 | many people who have travelled there in the last couple of years. Most have loved it. A few people have |
| 1:02.4 | said that they weren't so keen. I think that might depend on where you stay. It's quite a big region. |
| 1:10.6 | So when you're looking at the different places to book, |
| 1:13.3 | make sure that you stay in an area that is near the coast, not too far from all the big sites, |
| 1:20.6 | because otherwise you'll have a lot of realistically driving around to do. But Puglia surprised me in so many ways. We stayed near to Svaletri, |
| 1:31.9 | which was a perfect location, just a few minutes from the sea. Big hills, nearly mountains behind you, |
| 1:39.1 | which I didn't expect because I thought Pulea was very flat. And I was just amazed at how green it was. |
| 1:46.2 | Palm trees, olive graves, green, green grass, bright flora everywhere. |
| 1:52.6 | And I was blown away by the hospitality, as you would expect from Italy. |
| 1:57.5 | They were obsessed with Isabella. |
| 1:59.6 | We could barely move at breakfast for people stopping to |
| 2:03.2 | say hi to her. She got so much attention. Still didn't learn to say chow by the end of the trip, which I |
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