Katie Melua
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today’s special guest is the singer-songwriter Katie Melua. Many of you will know Katie from her chart-topping hits like "Nine Million Bicycles" and "The Closest Thing to Crazy”. Over the last twenty years, her soulful voice has captivated audiences all around the world, selling over 11 million albums worldwide, making her one of the most successful British female artists of all time.
Katie was born in Georgia, - a country found at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe - which was then part of the Soviet Union, and it’s a huge feature of her travel diaries today. If it's a place that's been on your travel radar, you’ll get some great tips for a future trip. Katie spent her early childhood living in Georgia before moving to the UK, when she was eight years old. Her passion for music led her to enrol at the famous BRIT school, alongside alumni like Adele and Amy Winehouse. She was discovered by songwriter and producer Mike Batt, and rocketed to stardom soon after.
Her success has of course meant she has travelled much of the world several times over on tour, and she shares with us some of the most extraordinary destinations she has put on a show, including the deepest concert ever held, 303 meters below sea level in a Norwegian fjord.
So sit back, relax, and join us on this journey as we explore the life and travels of Katie Melua.
Destination Recap:
- Batumi, Georgia
- Moscow, Russia
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- East Prawle, Devon, England
- Margate, Kent, England
- Deal, Kent, England
- Broadstairs, Kent, England
- Mt Kazbegi, Georgia
- Rooms Hotel, Kazbegi
- Norway
- Tresco, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England
- Brazil
Katie Melua’s ninth studio album, Love + Money, is out now, and she heads out on a UK + EU tour in April and May.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:19.2 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first |
| 0:22.3 | place they fell in love with to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel |
| 0:27.0 | bucket list, we'll be uncovering their adventures around the world and the travel experiences |
| 0:32.2 | and destinations that have shaped their lives. Hello everyone, I hope that you had a lovely weekend and that your week is getting off to a good start. |
| 0:41.2 | Thank you so much for your lovely support for last week's episode. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm so glad that you're happy that the podcast is back and excited for the season ahead. |
| 0:51.4 | I certainly am too. |
| 0:53.1 | This episode is coming to you from sunny Spain from |
| 0:57.4 | Andalusia. All being well, I am recording this just before we fly off. So I'll let you know how we get on |
| 1:03.8 | next week. Today's guest, this is an episode that I so enjoyed. I found it just such an interesting |
| 1:09.7 | conversation. Singer, songwriter Katie |
| 1:12.0 | Meliwam, many of you will know her from her chart-topping hits like 9 million bicycles |
| 1:17.0 | and the closest thing to crazy. Over the last 20 years, her soulful, beautiful voice has captivated |
| 1:24.6 | audiences all over the world, selling over 11 million albums worldwide, |
| 1:29.9 | making her one of the most successful British female artists of all time. |
| 1:35.5 | Katie was born in Georgia, a country found at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, |
| 1:41.7 | which was then part of the Soviet Union. And it's a huge feature |
| 1:45.3 | of her travel diaries today. If it's a place that has maybe been on your travel radar, you'll get |
| 1:49.8 | some great tips for a future trip. Katie gives us insight into the country all over. She spent |
| 1:55.1 | her early childhood living there before moving to the UK when she was about eight years old. And her |
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