Hidden Gems - Bonus Episode
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Surprise! I’m back with bonus episode number two, as we could all do with a bit of armchair travel right now. This week we’re uncovering the best ‘Hidden Gems’ from the past 23 episodes, from guests including Nadiya Hussain, Dan Snow and Levison Wood. Stay tuned for those secret spots that you want to keep to yourself because they’re that wonderful, but you also want to shout from the roof top because…they’re that wonderful! I hope they transport you to somewhere far, far away and provide some inspiration for your future travel plans.
Destination Recap:
- Dan Snow: Stockholm and Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden
- Mr & Mrs Smith’s James Lohan: Ett Hem, Stockholm, Sweden
- Rachel Khoo: Little Brothers Bakery - Stockholm, Sweden
- Luleå, Swedish Lapland
- Arctic Bath, Sweden
- The Independent’s Simon Calder: Wuppertaler Schwebebahn (Wuppertal Suspension Railway), Germany; Tiraspol, Moldova; The Azores; Syracuse, Sicily
- Levison Wood: Lebanon
- Arthaus Beirut, Lebanon
- Lucy Williams: Anopura, Jaipur, India
- Lonely Planet’s Peter Grunert: Bhutan
- Nadiya Hussain: Koh Sukorn, Thailand
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this bonus hidden gems episode of The Travel Diaries, where some of my |
| 0:12.9 | favorite guests from seasons one and two reveal their most loved secret spots from far-flung |
| 0:19.6 | tropical islands and remote mountain kingdoms to remarkable |
| 0:24.2 | architectural wonders that you might not yet have visited. I know from my own experience that |
| 0:30.3 | any podcast not related to coronavirus is so welcome right now. So I thought I'd bring you |
| 0:36.7 | one more. I hope this helps to transport you to |
| 0:40.1 | somewhere far, far away and will inspire your future travel plans when we can all travel again. |
| 0:47.0 | Now let's get started with a stylish Scandinavian country close to many of us that I for one have |
| 0:53.8 | never visited. Yet three of my guests all picked it as their hidden gem. |
| 0:59.8 | Historian Dan Snow, Mr. Mrs Smith's co-founder James Lawn and chef Rachel Koo all reveal why Sweden, its capital, Stockholm and its wild and wonderful archipelago should be top of our |
| 1:12.8 | travel hit lists. |
| 1:18.9 | Stockholm and its archipelago would be a hidden gem. |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, I've heard that's so beautiful. |
| 1:22.7 | That's probably the most underrated place I've been in my life. |
| 1:26.9 | I don't understand why everyone doesn't go there the whole time. |
| 1:29.0 | So what would you suggest that someone does if they want to experience the beauty of the Stockholm Akp? |
| 1:35.3 | I would go to Stockholm. |
| 1:36.9 | I would check out what is a like Amsterdam in Copenhagen, one of Europe's great cities. |
| 1:41.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.0 | It's got the single greatest museum on planet Earth |
| 1:44.5 | in it, the Vasa Museum with a 17th century battleship capsized about 30 seconds after leaving |
| 1:50.4 | port on its maiden voyage. And because of the cold Baltic Sea, it's perfectly preserved. It is |
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