June 25th - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Can you believe it's six months until Christmas Day? Never too early to plan your 25 December travels, and so today I have enlisted the support of Lyn Hughes, founding editor of Wanderlust magazine. Listen to her surprising choice of Christmas getaways.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder. |
| 0:05.8 | It's Tuesday the 25th of June, which means three things. |
| 0:10.4 | First of all, the nights are drawing in, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| 0:14.4 | Secondly, it's six months today till Christmas Day. |
| 0:18.5 | Thirdly, the person who can help you choose your Christmas destination for |
| 0:23.9 | 2024 is with me. The joy of it. She is the wonderful Lynne Hughes founding editor of Wonderlust |
| 0:30.6 | magazine. I would say happy half Christmas year. Thank you, Simon. That is such a scary thought that it's only six months away. |
| 0:40.1 | I don't have to start buying presents now, do I? |
| 0:42.6 | Oh, no. |
| 0:43.7 | Well, some... |
| 0:44.3 | It's just have the stress to my life. |
| 0:45.6 | Well, look, all I can do is remind you that, well, some of us have our birthdays on Christmas |
| 0:50.0 | Day as well. |
| 0:51.2 | But that's not important right now. |
| 0:52.7 | So, I'd like to know your most special |
| 0:56.4 | Christmas away oh what where I would like to go or oh gosh there are so many places now I think at |
| 1:04.3 | the moment if I'm going to be in Europe I am such a fan of the Balkans, Simon. I think they're so underrated. And I find myself |
| 1:15.4 | being drawn back to, you know, the Balkans time and time again. And having just been in |
| 1:20.9 | Mostar for the second time within a few months. This is, of course, the iconic city in Bosnia,Herzegovina with the amazing bridge. Signifying unity, thank goodness. Thank goodness. It is the most beautiful city, one of the most beautiful cities on earth. It's got wonderful examples of Ottoman architecture and Austro-Hungarian architecture. |
| 1:50.0 | But if you're there out of season, or if you're there at the start of the day and the end of the day, you can imagine that you are back in Ottoman times, walking through the sooks. |
| 1:55.0 | It has got so much atmosphere. The people are incredibly friendly. |
| 1:59.0 | It's got the famous bridge, but lots of other bridges |
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