Levison Wood
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by Levison Wood, the British explorer, photographer, best selling author, and TV presenter.
You probably know him from his incredible walking expeditions, which he’s documented on TV. He’s walked the length of the River Nile, through Central America from Mexico to Colombia, and the length of the Himalayas from Bhutan all the way to Afghanistan.
We talk about the time he hitchhiked from Nottingham to India - and his adventures along the way; what it was like driving an ambulance from London to Malawi in Southern Africa through 27 countries, and about his most recent and maybe most ambitious expedition yet, which was a 5000 mile circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula from Iran to Lebanon.
Destination recap
- Greece
- Mexico
- London to Malawi drive
- Columbia
- Grosny, Chechnya
- Southern Yemen
- Southern Dhoffar Mountains, Oman
- Lebanon
- Damascus, Syria
- South Africa
- Hitchhiking from Nottingham to India including Afghanistan
- Georgia
- Byblos, Lebanon
- Iran
- Corfu
- New Zealand
- Vancouver Island
- Papua New Guinea
- Biking through South America
If you’d like to hear more from Levison, you can pick up a copy of his book, Arabia: A Journey Through the Heart of the Middle East. And he’s also written a gorgeous children’s book called Incredible Journeys, and that’s out now too.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm a journalist and editor. |
| 0:14.0 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world |
| 0:20.7 | and the travel experiences and destinations |
| 0:23.2 | that have shaped their lives. Today I'm joined by Levison Wood, the British explorer, photographer, |
| 0:29.7 | best-selling author and TV presenter. You probably know him from his incredible walking expeditions |
| 0:35.7 | which he's documented on TV. |
| 0:43.0 | He's walked the length of the River Nile through Central America from Mexico to Colombia and the length of the Himalayas from Bhutan all the way to Afghanistan. |
| 0:47.8 | We talk about the time he hitchhiked from Nottingham to India and his adventures along the way, |
| 0:53.7 | what it was like driving an ambulance |
| 0:55.6 | from London to Malawi in southern Africa through 27 countries. |
| 1:00.5 | And about his most recent and maybe most ambitious expedition yet, which was a 5,000 |
| 1:05.9 | mile circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula from Iran to Lebanon. |
| 1:12.4 | We've got a lot of miles to cover. |
| 1:15.2 | So let's hear from Leveson Wood. |
| 1:24.7 | Leveson Wood, thank you so much for being here. When I was looking through your travel trajectory, I was thinking to myself, wow, his travel diaries are going to be |
| 1:28.8 | astonishing. So I can't wait to kick off. The first chapter of your travel diaries is your |
| 1:35.4 | earliest childhood travel memory. What would that be? I think it was Greece when I was about |
| 1:41.2 | four years old. And yeah, I just remember being on a beach in the sun, |
| 1:47.9 | being fed cherries by my mother. That sounds, that sounds blissful. It was blissful. And perhaps it was |
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