Listener Special
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today is a Travel Diaries first - a Listener Special where you, my amazing listeners, are this week’s special guests. I’ve interviewed many a star over the past seven seasons, but the real stars have been you, the listeners. Your incredible support has allowed the podcast to grow as quickly as it has, so it only felt right that I turn the tables, and the microphone, back on to you to tap into your collective wisdom and travel experiences, as you answer the seven chapters of the travel diaries.
From China to Kerala, from Costa Rica to Puglia, from the rainforests of the Amazon to the plains of Kenya, fasten your seatbelts for the first ever Travel Diaries Listener Special.
Destination Recap:
Chapter One - Earliest Childhood Travel Memories
featuring
- Beijing, China from Tone in Surrey, England
- France from Katja in Slovenia
Chapter Two - The First Place You Fell In Love With
featuring
- Villefranche-sur-Mer, France from Emma in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Austria from Joe from Somerset, England
- Kerala, India from Emma in London
Chapter Three - The Place Where You Learnt The Most About Yourself
featuring
- Karditsa, Greece from Aoife in Ireland
Chapter Four - All Time Favourite Destinations
featuring
- Puglia, Italy from Tracey in Wexford, Ireland
- Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest from Charlotte in New Zealand
- Nice, France from Jen in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Kenya from Emma in Worcestershire
Chapter Five - Hidden Gems
featuring
- San Gerardo de Rivas in Costa Rica from Mani in Birmingham, England
- Rendezvous Bay, Antigua from Charlie in the Wirral, England
- Red Wharf Bay on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales from Shireen in Wales
Chapter Seven - The Destination At The Top Of Your Travel Bucket Lists
featuring
- Toronto, Canada from Ellie in East Sussex, England
- Japan from Aaron in South Wales
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. I'm your host journalist Holly Rubinstein and today is a travel diaries first. Welcome to the Travel Diaries Listener special where you, my amazing listeners are this week's special guests. I've interviewed |
| 0:22.4 | many a star over the past seven seasons, but the real stars have been you, the listeners. Your |
| 0:27.4 | support has allowed the podcast to grow as quickly as it has. I'm so incredibly grateful, so it |
| 0:33.0 | only felt right that I'd turn the tables and the microphone back onto you to tap into your collective |
| 0:38.1 | wisdom and travel experiences as you answer the seven chapters of the travel to Hyrese. |
| 0:43.7 | The response has been amazing beyond my wildest expectations. If I'd used every clip you sent |
| 0:49.0 | into this episode, it would be hours long. So I'm so sorry to those whose clips I didn't |
| 0:53.7 | include today, but I'm |
| 0:54.7 | definitely planning on doing another in the future, and I'll try and use as many as possible then. |
| 1:00.0 | And what is amazing is that I knew that we had to travel the world on this episode and cover |
| 1:04.0 | destinations from all across the globe, but what I genuinely didn't expect was to hear from |
| 1:08.5 | listeners all across the globe as well. Not only is every |
| 1:12.0 | region in the UK and Ireland covered in abundance, but we'll hear from listeners in New Zealand and |
| 1:18.4 | Slovenia in the process too, which is just really amazing. We have a lot of ground to cover today. |
| 1:24.3 | So from China to Kerala, from Costa Rica to the Amazon rainforest, |
| 1:29.4 | let's buckle up our seatbelts and head off on the first ever Travel Diaries Listener Special. |
| 1:43.4 | Right, we're getting started right at the beginning. |
| 1:45.3 | Chapter 1, Your earliest childhood travel memories. |
| 1:48.3 | First up, we have Tona, now from Surrey, England, but who grew up in Sweden, and she recounts |
| 1:53.6 | the incredibly rare experience of travelling to China in the late 70s just before it opened |
| 1:58.5 | its borders to Western countries. |
| 2:00.6 | And then we have a very different experience from Katia who grew up in Slovenia, |
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