Stanley Tucci
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We’re back for Season 6 (how did that happen?!) and what an honour to be joined on our first episode by the Oscar-nominated actor and writer, Stanley Tucci. You’ve seen him in The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, Julie and Julia, Supernova, Fortitude, and The Lovely Bones. He’s directed four movies, and recently won an Emmy for his new food and travel TV series, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. As a foodie he’s written two delectable cookbooks, and his new memoir, Taste, is just as delicious.
This episode is a love letter to Italy, and of course to food. So let’s get started. Season 6, Stanley Tucci. Here we go!
Destination Recap
Holly:
- Vaison La Romaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
- Airelles Chateau de la Messardiere, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Stanley Tucci:
- Vermont, USA
- Rome, Italy
- Florence, Italy
- New Paltz, Upstate NY, USA, Shonagun Mountains
- The Cotswolds
- Watergate Bay Hotel, Cornwall, England
- Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England
- Cirencester, The Cotswolds, England
- The Lake District, England
- Zermatt, Switzerland
- Lake Como, Italy
- Rome, Italy
- Emilio Romagna, Italy
- Ischia, Italy
- Iceland
- Scandinavia
Stanley Tucci’s memoir ‘Taste’ is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to season six of the Travel Diaries podcast. How did that happen? Season 6, |
| 0:11.9 | season six. 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 |
| 0:22.6 | travel diaries from their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with |
| 0:28.4 | to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket list. We'll be uncovering |
| 0:33.8 | their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations that have |
| 0:39.5 | shaped their lives. Well, I hope you've had a good couple of months. It's been great to hear |
| 0:44.0 | about some of the places you've been traveling to. Thank you for getting in touch. I've managed |
| 0:48.9 | to squeeze in a few trips of my own, so I'll fill you in on those across the coming weeks, |
| 0:53.5 | as there are some places |
| 0:55.5 | that you have got to add to your travel wish list there being some really good ones I can't |
| 1:00.0 | wait to tell you all about and I actually spoke to today's guest who will come to in a moment |
| 1:05.6 | while I was abroad in France my first trip abroad since pre-pandemic times, which was just so nice, |
| 1:13.3 | so lovely to be immersed in a different culture, different language, different food. |
| 1:18.4 | Really, that change of environments makes such difference, doesn't it? |
| 1:21.5 | So we took the train down from London to Avignon and stayed first in the medieval town of Vaison la Romaine. |
| 1:29.6 | If you're in the Vaucluse area of Provence, it's a place I really recommend visiting. |
| 1:34.8 | Very pretty. |
| 1:35.8 | The region is extremely mountainous, overlooked by Mount Vantu, which features in the Tour de France a lot of the time. |
| 1:43.4 | The area is very full of vineyards and great restaurants. |
| 1:47.9 | And Vaison itself is famous for its Roman ruins, which you'll find throughout the town. |
| 1:53.2 | It's really quite remarkable. |
| 1:54.6 | There are ruins everywhere, and there are lots of wildcats that go and sleep on the different Roman columns at night, which is |
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