Sophy Roberts, Travel Author
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m joined by one of the world’s leading travel authors and journalists, Sophy Roberts. Formerly the editor-at-large of Conde Nast Traveller, and Departures Magazine, as well as a columnist at the Financial Times, Sophy’s focus now is primarily on remote parts of the world, reporting on fragile cultures, wildlife conservation and threats to eco-systems.
I hope this episode grabs you and transports you to the wild and wonderful ends of our planet. It’s a long haul, feature length episode and a love letter to travel, which will take you to some truly far flung locations from deepest Siberia and wild Papua New Guinea, to the deserts of Chad and the lakes of Kashmir. I really hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.
Destination Recap:
- Uzbekistan
- Aryll, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- Leger, France
- Ireland
- Ecclefechan, Scottish Borders
- Russia
- Delhi Old Town, India
- Kashmir, India
- Drive from Kashmir to Ladakh
- Siberia, Russia
- Mongolia
- Nepal
- New York City, USA
- New York Public Library
- Sylvia’s, New York
- Nihiwatu - Now called Nihi Sumba, Indonesia
- Hotel Trasierra, Andalucia, Spain
- Chad
- Papua New Guinea
- Yeotown, Somerset
- The Canary Islands
- St Tropez in August
- Mozambique
- Kolyma, Siberia, Russia
- Rwanda
- Arctic poles
- Socotra Island, Yemen
- Mississippi River, USA
‘The Lost Pianos of Siberia’ by Sophy Roberts, is out now. You can follow Sophy’s travel on Instagram here.
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm a travel and entertainment journalist. |
| 0:14.7 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world |
| 0:20.6 | and the travel experiences |
| 0:22.3 | and destinations that have shaped their lives. Today, I'm joined by one of the world's leading |
| 0:29.5 | travel authors and journalists, Sophie Roberts. Formerly the editor at large of Condonet's |
| 0:36.1 | Traveler and Departures Magazine, as well as a columnist |
| 0:39.1 | at the Financial Times, Sophie's focus now is primarily on remote parts of the world, reporting |
| 0:45.2 | on fragile cultures, wildlife conservation and threats to ecosystems. And she's just released |
| 0:51.3 | her first book, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, which we'll come on to later. |
| 0:56.4 | I hope this episode grabs you and transports you to the wild and wonderful ends of our planet. |
| 1:03.0 | It's a long haul feature-length episode and a love letter to travel, |
| 1:07.7 | which will take you to some truly far-flung locations from deepest Siberia and |
| 1:12.8 | wild Papua New Guinea to the deserts of Chad and the lakes of Kashmir. |
| 1:18.1 | I really hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. |
| 1:21.0 | Here's Sophie Roberts. |
| 1:31.5 | Sophie Roberts, welcome to The Travel Diaries. |
| 1:32.6 | How are you? |
| 1:34.8 | I am feeling pretty good actually. |
| 1:37.0 | It's fantastic to be here with you. |
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