November 4th - Travel Smart: The Independent launches a new travel show
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
I want to tell you about a new project from the travel desk at The Independent — Travel Smart.
It's a brand new series of videos from the travel team that aims to provide viewers with all the information and inspiration they need to plan their next trip.
Learn more about the first episode here: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/travel-smart-tv-show-launch-b2215105.html
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder and it's the very |
| 0:06.7 | last one of the week and a little bit different because I want to tell you about a new project |
| 0:13.3 | from the travel desk at the independent. It's called Travel Smart and it's on Independent TV |
| 0:19.5 | and if you just search Travel smart independent TV you should get |
| 0:24.4 | straight to the first edition it's a television program that is basically a magazine show about |
| 0:32.7 | travel so we take destinations we give you information hopefully we give you some inspiration, but you |
| 0:39.8 | will be the judge of that. And my excellent colleague, Helen Coffey, the travel editor, will also |
| 0:47.5 | talk to you about, well, the importance of sustainable travel and how it can be so rewarding. She is off to Antwerp and well there's a |
| 0:58.3 | newly replenished art museum there which looks just great and I cannot wait to get there. |
| 1:04.3 | Meanwhile deputy travel editor Lucy Thackeray has been to Puglia in Italy. It's the heel of Italy. Absolutely gorgeous, a really good |
| 1:15.3 | winter destination. I was there over Christmas and New Year a few years ago. And certainly it looks |
| 1:21.8 | as though there's even more happening in that beautiful part of Italy as well. Loads of great food, lots of history to look at, |
| 1:31.2 | interesting places to stay and some excellent beaches too. So what am I doing in all this? |
| 1:38.0 | Well, talking about more information, I guess, than inspiration, including the history of cabin baggage, which is a |
| 1:47.4 | tricky old problem. Of course, we've always had cabin baggage, but it wasn't really relevant |
| 1:53.6 | until 2006 when Flybee came along and said, oh, you want to check a bag and we're going to charge |
| 2:00.0 | you a couple of pounds to reflect the extra cost to us. So if you want to avoid that, just take cabin baggage. And that |
| 2:06.7 | was how it began. And now, of course, 20, 30, 40 pounds to check in a piece of baggage. Even if you |
| 2:12.8 | want to take more than a small backpack on some flights, you're going to be charged extra for that. |
| 2:18.5 | My view is just adhere to whatever the cabin baggage rules are. |
| 2:24.2 | If it's British Airways, you've got 46 kilograms. |
| 2:27.6 | Yes, two pieces of baggage, including one really quite chunky and sizable roll-along case, |
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