Glorious Greece - Destination Special
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s destination special we are heading to one of the world’s most popular travel destinations. We're off to the South East of Europe, to a country of thousands of islands dotted throughout the Aegean and Ionian Seas. The cradle of Western civilization, its capital, Athens, is home to ancient landmarks dating back to the 5th-century B.C. like the Acropolis and the Parthenon. A country of magical natural landscapes, turquoise seas and secret beaches, with the longest coastline in Europe and the most welcoming locals. It is of course, Glorious Greece.
Unsurprisingly, Greece, and in particular the Greek Islands have been a hugely popular choice by my podcast guests over the last seven seasons and what I’ve especially enjoyed is really how many of them are hidden gems that I personally wasn’t hugely familiar with.
The first half of today’s episode is a tour around the islands featuring some of my favourite guests over the last few years, and then, afterwards, we’ll be joined by Greece travel expert, fellow podcaster and Greece resident, Heidi Fuller-Love who’ll be sharing her extensive expertise, tips, and recommendations for your next Greek holiday.
Destination Recap:
- Tom Kerridge - Agistri
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - Aegina
- Fiona Duncan - Koufonisia and Amorgos
- David Loftus - Paros
- Yotam Ottolenghi - Folegandros
- Raven Smith - Milos
- Jo Malone - Rhodes
Heidi Fuller-Love’s Destination Recap:
- Crete
- E4 trail, Crete
- Sitia Geopark, Crete
- Samaria Gorge, Crete
- Kato Zakros, Crete
- Akoritiri, Santorini
- MarBella Elix, Parga
- Nana Princess, Crete
- Agistri
- Aegina
- Thirassia
- Thirassia Paradise Suites
- Alonissos
- Karpathos
- Epirus Mountains
For more information about Greece head to visitgreece.gr and follow @GreeceGrammable on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and on this week's destination special, we're heading to one of the world's most popular travel destinations. |
| 0:19.7 | We're off to the southeast of Europe, to a country of |
| 0:23.0 | thousands of islands dotted throughout the Aegean and Ionian seas. The cradle of Western |
| 0:28.4 | Civilization, its capital Athens is home to ancient landmarks dating back to the 5th century BC, |
| 0:34.8 | like the Acropolis and the Parthenon. A country of magical natural landscapes, turquoise seas and secret beaches, |
| 0:42.2 | with the longest coastline in Europe and the most welcoming locals. |
| 0:46.3 | It is, of course, glorious Greece. |
| 0:49.6 | Unsurprisingly, Greece, and in particular the Greek islands, |
| 0:52.2 | have been a hugely popular choice by my podcast guests over the last seven seasons. |
| 0:56.3 | And what I've especially enjoyed is really how many of them are hidden gems that I personally wasn't hugely familiar with. |
| 1:02.7 | The first half of today's episode is a tour of those islands featuring some of my favourite guests over the last few years. |
| 1:09.4 | And then afterwards, we'll be joined by |
| 1:11.9 | Greece travel expert, fellow podcaster and Greece resident Heidi Fuller Love, who will be sharing |
| 1:16.8 | her extensive expertise, tips, recommendations for your next Greek holiday. First, we're |
| 1:23.1 | heading to the Serronic Islands with Chef Tom Kerridge and the tiny island of Aguistri, which sits alongside |
| 1:28.8 | Poros, Agina, Spetses and Hydra, making it the perfect base for island hopping between the |
| 1:34.1 | Seronic Islands. The geestri is less than an hour by ferry from Athens and is one of the most |
| 1:39.1 | popular Greek islands for weekend getaways from the country's capital. It's a green, lush island with many scenic and unspoiled charms |
| 1:46.7 | alongside some breathtaking beaches. |
| 1:49.4 | Here's Tom to tell us more. |
| 1:55.6 | The first real holiday as such that I actually remember having of going, |
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