Steve Backshall
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Steve Backshall is a BAFTA-winning presenter, writer, explorer, naturalist and all round daredevil. His big break as a broadcaster arrived when National Geographic offered him the post of Adventurer in Residence and he’s been taking on some of the toughest challenges on earth ever since, gracing our TV screens with shows like Deadly 60, Expedition, and The Lost Land series. On this episode you’ll hear that Steve’s great passion is discovery. Discovery of new places and new animal species - whether that’s uncovering never before seen ancient human art work in a Borneo cave, tracking snow leopards in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, coming extremely close to death while kayaking in Bhutan or diving with sharks in his new show, Shark with Steve Backshall.
Holly’s Destination Recap:
- No. 15 Great Pulteney, Bath, England
- Three Mile Beach, Cornwall, England
Steve’s Destination Recap:
- Zimbabwe
- Colombia
- West Papua
- Bhutan
- Wales - Gower, Pembroke, Snowdonia, Breacon Beacons
- Scilly Isles, Cornwall, England
- Coastal Pembroke, Wales
- Coastal Penzance, Cornwall, England
- Bimini, The Bahamas
- Kyrgyzstan
- Borneo
- Brazil
- Suriname
Shark With Steve Backshall continues on Sunday at 8pm on Sky Nature, Sky Showcase and is streaming on NOW TV.
Thank you to today’s sponsors:
- Freddie’s Flowers - Get your first two boxes half price, at just £12.50 each with the code TRAVEL50
- The Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel and entertainment journalist. |
| 0:13.1 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:20.0 | 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. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll be uncovering their adventures around the world |
| 0:31.5 | and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:36.9 | Thanks to everyone who's tuned in or sent me a message about last week's episode with Jessica |
| 0:41.8 | Nabongo. |
| 0:42.7 | If you haven't tuned in yet, this is a really good one. |
| 0:45.6 | Jessica is the first black woman in history to have visited every country in the world, |
| 0:51.5 | all 195 of them. |
| 0:53.4 | So as you can imagine, they were some travel diaries. |
| 0:57.3 | Before we get started with today's very special guest, I've still got quite a few places |
| 1:02.6 | to fill you in on from my travels since last season. So this week, I wanted to tell you about |
| 1:07.6 | a summer trip that I took to Cornwall via Bath. It was a long old drive, |
| 1:12.1 | so I was extremely grateful that the team at Alpha Romeo got in touch and were kind enough |
| 1:17.7 | to loan us one of their top range four by fours, the Alpha Romeo Stelvio Quadrifolio for the |
| 1:23.2 | week, making all that driving, our long old journey, a dream. dream like most alphas it's a stunning car to look at turned a lot of heads |
| 1:34.2 | and the interiors were so slick black leather red stitching i was sold and i've never really |
| 1:41.3 | driven a super powerful car before the The sound it made was amazing. It |
| 1:44.9 | really, it really went. So thank you, Opera Mayo. They have a partnership with I Escape, |
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