Clara Amfo: “I’m afraid of being bored!” How to take your holiday hobbies seriously
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Are holidays for switching off... or for fun activities? Broadcaster Clara Amfo is big into travelling solo so she can unapologetically indulge her own passions, like live music and salsa dancing.
Welcome to The Happy Place Guide To Holidays! In this chat – brought to you by British Airways Holidays – Fearne and Clara share their thoughts on how to take your holiday hobbies and passions more seriously, including signing up for local classes, and swapping partying for fitness retreats.
They also reminisce on the moment Fearne passed the Radio 1 Live Lounge over to Clara, and chat about how to know when you’re ready to move on from a chapter in your life. Plus, do you find your personality getting lost so you’re more palatable to others? Clara has some advice to stop that happening...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Happy Place Guide to Holidays, brought to you by British Airways Holidays. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Fern Cotton and today I'm chatting to Clara Ampho. |
| 0:10.5 | Do you know what? You can go away and holiday not necessarily come back with a physical skill. |
| 0:14.8 | Sometimes it's just about self-sufficiency. |
| 0:17.2 | Don't remember, I love going on holidays with my mates, but you know how it is. |
| 0:20.2 | Trying to coordinate any kind of friend group. |
| 0:22.8 | Like we've all got that group chat and sort of like, whatever holiday, 2025, let's do it. And there's maybe like three people keeping it alive. I'm just like, you know what? Screw this. Going by myself. I've travelled a lot alone. So I think for me, when it comes to getting a skill coming back from holidays, |
| 0:20.3 | actually just been about self-sufficiency and knowing how to do it really well, like, |
| 0:41.5 | alone. Well, you will have gathered that this isn't an ordinary episode of the podcast, |
| 0:45.6 | and actually there are two reasons for that today. Firstly, Clara and I had this chat live, |
| 0:50.7 | with all of you gorgeous lot in our massive talks tent at the first ever happy place |
| 0:55.1 | festival in gunnersbury park and then secondly this is the happy place guide to holidays so it's an |
| 1:01.0 | exclusive happy place mini series brought to you by british airways holidays they're all about helping |
| 1:06.6 | you take your holidays more seriously and this series is all about putting the passion back |
| 1:11.9 | into our time away. In each episode, we're going big on the things that I and you lot, |
| 1:17.6 | according to British Airways holidays, love most about going on holiday. So that's things like |
| 1:21.6 | food and drink and holiday reads and having time to prioritise our well-being. Today, with Clara, we talk passions and |
| 1:29.3 | hobbies. There's a real trend at the moment for people booking holidays so they can do more of |
| 1:33.8 | what they love. That could be, I don't know, a week away sailing or painting, or maybe a ski trip, |
| 1:40.3 | not for me. And this is really cool. according to a recent UGov survey commissioned by British |
| 1:45.5 | Airways holidays. 68% of 25 to 34 year olds think it's important that a holiday gives you the |
| 1:52.1 | opportunity to incorporate a hobby or pursuit. So there are clearly loads of you following those |
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