Bill Bailey
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by the much loved comedian, musician and actor, Bill Bailey. Known for his hugely inventive stand up, he’s of course such a familiar face on our TV screens, spending several years as team captain on the long running music and comedy BBC panel show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, making regular appearances on QI and Have I Got News For You, and most recently being crowned the champion of Strictly Come Dancing with partner Oti Mabuse, last year.
Bill kicks off his travel diaries having just returned from an incredible trip to Iceland, so he tells us all about; he shares his love of Indonesia where he spontaneously eloped with his wife, and travels back to each year; as a gigging comedian he has discovered every corner of the UK, so he reveals some British hidden gems that could be on your doorstep, and he shares his tips for Strictly this year.
He joins me from his West London family home, which he shares with a menagerie of pets, including five rescue dogs, a cat, a parrot, a snake, ducks and hens, which you will occasionally hear laying an egg in the background. This is a really fun one!
Destination Recap:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Akureyi, Iceland
- Bubble Hotel, Iceland
- Weston-super-mare, England
- Bath, England
- Saunder’s Foot, South Wales
- Marseilles, France
- Argentina
- Indonesia
- Sumatra, Indonesia
- West Papua, Indonesia
- The Ridgeway National Trail, England
- Barbados
- Baqueira Beret, Spain
- Sitges, Spain
- Barcelona, Spain
- Patagonia
- Namibia
- Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Bill Bailey’s En Route To Normal tour kicks off in Plymouth on Sun 12 December and runs through to mid January. All the tickets and dates can be found at www.BillBailey.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and here each week I'll be speaking to a very |
| 0:14.3 | special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:18.8 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they |
| 0:22.4 | fell in love with to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket list, |
| 0:27.5 | we'll be uncovering their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations |
| 0:33.0 | that have shaped their lives. While I hope that you're keeping safe and well this week, I think it's really beginning |
| 0:40.2 | to feel quite festive, isn't it? |
| 0:42.0 | I certainly felt the Christmassy feeling when I was up in the Lake District earlier this |
| 0:47.3 | week. |
| 0:47.6 | I was there for a few days in Cumbria. |
| 0:49.2 | We stayed near to Lake Windermere, which is the biggest of the lakes in the Lake District. |
| 0:55.5 | And, I mean, I'd heard so much about the Lake District. |
| 0:59.2 | And we talk about it on episode one with Stanley Tucci, because he filmed a film up there. |
| 1:03.7 | And he was telling me how amazing it is. |
| 1:06.3 | I'd been there when I was little, but I couldn't really remember it. |
| 1:08.8 | And just taking the car ferry across the |
| 1:11.5 | lake and exploring the majestic landscapes some of the best roads we've ever driven the vistas of the |
| 1:20.4 | mountains were just amazing ambleside coniston water that kind of area is where we were and it was a perfect place for a long |
| 1:30.3 | weekend and if you're based in London we found it really easy to get to on the train and then we |
| 1:35.4 | hired a car upgrading to an automatic best decision that we've probably made that weekend those |
| 1:40.8 | roads are quite hair-raising but you, that's so you can get those amazing |
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