Hairy Bikers
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Season 8 of The Travel Diaries! And who better to kick off the season than national treasures Si King and Dave Myers, a.k.a. the Hairy Bikers. My first duo on the pod, they’ve been entertaining Britain with their TV shows and books for over twenty years. Their unique blend of foodie expertise, humour and motorbike enthusiasm has earned them national treasure status. And part of their success has been their foodie travel shows, where they’ve biked incredible routes across the world, while experiencing local cuisines like their Asian Adventure, Mediterranean adventure, and US route 66 series to name just a few.
I spoke to Si and Dave a little while back now - as you might know, Dave is currently undergoing chemo for cancer, and he spoke to me the night before his next round which he'd travelled down to London for. So to say I was truly touched that they took the time to talk about to The Travel Diaries is an understatement. One thing is for sure, the two of them adore travel, and this episode takes us from Namibia to India, Argentina to Estonia and many places in between.
Destination Recap
- Bamburgh Beach, Newfoundland, England
- Isle of Man, England
- Portugal
- Namibia
- Madurai, India
- Southern Italy
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Patagonia, Argentina
- Valdes Peninsula, Argentina
- Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Austria
- Atlas Mountains, Morocco
- Mexico
- Ghats, India
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Riga, Latvia
- Talinn, Estonia
- Finnish Archipelago
- Southern Turkey
- Macchu Pichu, Peru
- Nigeria
- Pan American Highway
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Season 8 of the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm your host Holly Rubinstein and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest |
| 0:17.3 | about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:22.6 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with to their hidden gem and what's |
| 0:27.2 | at the top of their travel bucket list. We'll be uncovering their adventures around the world |
| 0:32.2 | and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:43.7 | So summer is drawing to a close here in England and it sounds like loads of you have been really getting back into travel again over the last few months and having some |
| 0:47.8 | amazing adventures. Last season's finale with Miriam Margulies was released while I was actually out in Lake Como in Italy. |
| 0:56.5 | That was my only abroad trip this summer, but it was a really special one. And I didn't get a |
| 1:01.4 | chance to tell you about the last place that I stayed in, a really exciting new opening, |
| 1:07.8 | brand new opening, called Pasolacqua. Now, if you're into new hotel openings, you might have read about Pasolacqua. Now if you're into new hotel openings, |
| 1:12.6 | you might have read about Pasolacqua already because it is probably the most hyped hotel |
| 1:18.5 | opening in Europe this year. It opened in June and I'm not a big fan of hype because then when |
| 1:23.8 | you visit, it's really hard for the properties to live up to your expectations, |
| 1:34.2 | isn't it? But this place surpassed the hype and I'd say it like rocketed into my top three hotels that I've ever reviewed. It really was unforgettable. Very hard to do it justice in words, |
| 1:40.4 | but to give you a little overview, it is a converted palazzo on the shores of lake |
| 1:45.1 | Como from the team behind grand hotel tremetso which is one of the really famous granddam |
| 1:51.1 | hotels on the lake and it's this amazing oasis hidden within seven acres of terrace gardens |
| 1:58.5 | that stretched down to the water's edge. |
| 2:06.1 | The main reason I thought it was so fantastic was the attention to detail, which needs to be seen to be believed. When it came to the interiors, which blended this Palazzo's history |
| 2:11.3 | with every modern amenity in the most kind of effortless and subtle way. And the setting was |
| 2:16.3 | just so relaxing on a really beautiful |
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