Phil Rosenthal
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Phil Rosenthal first gained international recognition by creating the iconic TV sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” which won 16 Emmys and as we discuss on the episode today, 30 years later is still a mainstay on both US and UK TV.
A self-described foodie, he has always been an ardent supporter of restaurants and food culture and his favourite saying is that “food is the great human connector”. Now he is living out his dream, travelling the world and exploring different cultures one bite at a time on his hit Netflix show, “Somebody Feed Phil” which is going into its 7th season, this time featuring Orlando, Scotland, Kyoto, Dubai, Washington D.C. and more. More than anything in this episode Phil is just such an advocate for travel for the positive power that travelling can have in broadening our perspectives on life, and he transports us today from Florence to Florida, Paris to Taipei and much more.
Destination Recap:
Holly --
- Vila Vita Parc, Algarve, Portugal
- Quinta da Comporta, Comporta, Portugal
- Lisbon, Portugal
Phil --
- New York, USA
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Disneyworld, Florida, USA
- Orlando, Florida, USA
- Florence, Italy
- Kyoto, Japan
- Paris, France
- Italy
- Taipei
- Shanghai
- Australia
- Venice, Italy
You can watch the new season of Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix now. He also has published a children’s book that he co-created with his daughter Lily, called JUST TRY IT.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | 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. |
| 0:19.9 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with |
| 0:24.7 | to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket list. |
| 0:28.7 | We'll be uncovering their adventures around the world |
| 0:31.5 | and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:36.6 | Oh, hi everyone. |
| 0:37.9 | I hope that your week is going well. |
| 0:40.6 | Is spring finally here? |
| 0:42.6 | TBC, I think. |
| 0:44.1 | It certainly wasn't when I was traveling around beautiful Portugal over the last week or so, |
| 0:50.4 | but that didn't dampen my enjoyment of the trip. In fact, I wanted to share with you |
| 0:57.0 | the itinerary that I put together because I think it is a really great road trip if you want |
| 1:03.3 | to do something really manageable that worked perfect with kids, really simple. We flew into |
| 1:08.5 | Faro, Faro in the Algarve and we spent a few nights there, you know, just |
| 1:12.5 | relaxing. We were staying at a resort called Villa Vita Park, which I'll tell you a bit more about |
| 1:17.4 | next season in a family travel special because it's fab for families. And you know what you're |
| 1:23.1 | getting in the Algarve, don't you? Beautiful beaches. Lovely resorts. Great food, great restaurants, |
| 1:28.5 | great views. And then from there, we drove about an hour and a half up the West Coast to Comporta. |
| 1:36.7 | So Comporta, you might have heard of. You might have read about it in the travel press, |
| 1:41.2 | as it's cited quite a lot as a real hidden gem. It's really unusual in |
| 1:47.9 | that it's this enormous stretch of golden sand beach that feels incredibly wild and rugged and beautiful |
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