Giles Coren
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, I’m joined by the food writer and TV presenter, Giles Coren. Giles has been a restaurant critic and columnist for The Times for 17 years and alongside chef Monica Galetti, he is the presenter of Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, which sees him travel the globe, visiting some of the world’s most incredible hotels, rolling up his sleeves to work alongside their staff. As well as some fabulous hotels, stay tuned for some fab foodie recommendations too.
I loved chatting to Giles - his take on travel amused me from start to finish. I hope you enjoy it too!
Destination Recap:
- MGM Macau
- Kenyan safari
- Andalucía, Spain
- La Petite Maison, London, England
- Chewton Glen, Hampshire, England
- Le Gavroche, London, England
- The River Cafe, London, England
- Min Jiang, London, England
- Gymkhana, London, England
- Palmers, London, England
- Scott’s, London, England
- J Sheekey, London, England
- Inter-railing around Europe
- Tourettes-sur-loup, France
- Corsica, France
- Giraffe Manor, Kenya
- Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
- Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
- Schloss Elmau, Germany
- The Brando, French Polynesia
- The Bell Inn, Langford, England
- Kerala, India
- Cuba
Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby is out now on BBC 2, and is also available on BBC iPlayer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel journalist and editor. |
| 0:12.2 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:22.8 | This week, I'm joined by the food writer and TV presenter Giles Corrin. |
| 0:27.8 | Giles has been a restaurant critic and columnist for The Times newspaper for 17 years, |
| 0:33.1 | and alongside chef Monica Galetti, he is a presenter of amazing hotels Life Beyond the Lobby, |
| 0:38.7 | a BBC series that sees him travel the globe, visiting some of the world's most incredible |
| 0:43.5 | hotels, rolling up his sleeves to work alongside their staff. |
| 0:47.3 | I spoke to Giles remotely. |
| 0:49.5 | He was in his London home, so apologies for any sound glitches. |
| 0:52.9 | We spoke a couple of weeks ago just as lockdown was |
| 0:55.7 | beginning to ease and restaurants were beginning to open up and as well as of course covering some |
| 1:01.0 | wonderful hotels stay tuned for some great foodie recommendations too. I really enjoyed this chat. |
| 1:09.3 | Giles doesn't take himself or travelling too seriously, and I'm sure |
| 1:13.9 | he'll make you chuckle. So let's get started, from Andalusia to Kenya and French Polynesia |
| 1:21.2 | to Kerala. Here are the travel diaries of Giles Corrin. |
| 1:27.3 | Giles Corrin, welcome to the travel diaries. It's a pleasure to have you on today. |
| 1:32.4 | Thank you very much. Pleasure to be here. |
| 1:33.7 | So we are talking as the new series of Amazing Hotels Life Beyond the Lobby is out on the TV. |
| 1:42.3 | Absolutely loving the new series. I've watched all three seasons avidly, |
| 1:46.7 | as I'm sure many of our listeners have. I mean, this is a, this is not tragically, but sadly, |
| 1:52.8 | slightly shorter season. It's not as long as it would have been if it hadn't been for the virus. |
| 1:57.1 | We've only got three in this one and then we'll have three later. |
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