Clare Balding
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is a broadcasting legend. Whether it’s the Olympic Games, Paralympics, horse racing, Crufts, Wimbledon or so much more, Clare Balding has risen to national treasure status. She’s also a best-selling author, radio presenter and podcaster, in case you didn’t think she was busy enough!
Covering so many major TV events has taken Clare around the world, and then some. Her travel diaries take us from Mauritius to Costa Rica, Italy to Iona. She tells us how she once won her weight in champagne as a horse jockey; as a dog lover like me she shares her favourite dog friendly spots in the UK; we hear her take on the future of Emma Raducanu, and about the time the Queen turned up at her house for breakfast. All that coming up on The Travel Diaries.
Destination Recap:
- Chamonix, France
- Aspen, Colorado, USA
- Mauritius
- Four Seasons Hotel, Mauritius
- Sydney, Australia
- Melbourne, Australia
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Costa Rica
- Hotel Punta Islita, Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Lewa, Kenya
- Galana, Kenya
- Tofauti charity
- Lucknam Park, Bath, England
- Whatley Manor, Wiltshire, England
- Holbeck Ghyll, Lake District, England
- Rosa Alpina, The Dolomites, Italy
- Puglia, Italy
- Umbria, Italy
- Iona, Scotland
- Northumberland, England
- Wigton, Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway
- Elephant Corridor, Sri Lanka
- Banyan Tree Mayakoba, Mexico
- Baltic Sea Cruise
- Fjord Cruise
- Panama Canal Cruise
- The Amazon Cruise
- South Pacific Cruise
- Alaska, USA
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel and entertainment journalist and here each week I'll be |
| 0:14.1 | speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:19.4 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the |
| 0:22.5 | first place they fell in love with to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their |
| 0:27.0 | travel bucket list, we'll be uncovering their adventures around the world and the travel |
| 0:31.7 | experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. Thank you so much for all your lovely messages about |
| 0:38.8 | last week's episode with Stanley Tucci. I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it. If you missed it, |
| 0:44.5 | then don't forget to catch up. And today's guest is one that I've been really excited to share |
| 0:50.7 | with you too. She is just quite simply a broadcasting legend. Claire |
| 0:55.6 | Balding has risen to national treasure status and she's also a best-selling author, |
| 1:01.2 | radio presenter and podcaster in case you didn't think she was busy enough. So this |
| 1:06.2 | episode was recorded with Claire about a month ago face to face at the beautiful Mandarin Oriental |
| 1:12.3 | Hyde Park in London in an exquisite suite that Claire was staying in that night with her wife |
| 1:19.3 | Alice and we covered so many different things this was a conversation that I really didn't want to |
| 1:26.4 | end just to give you a little taste of what's coming up, |
| 1:29.4 | she tells us how she once won her weight in champagne as a horse jockey. |
| 1:34.6 | As a dog lover, we bond over our favourite dog-friendly spots in the UK. |
| 1:39.2 | We hear her take on the future of tennis star Emma Aducanu, |
| 1:42.3 | and she tells us about the time the queen, her royal highness, |
| 1:46.3 | turned up at her house for breakfast. |
| 1:49.7 | Her travel diaries take us from Mauritius |
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