Travel chat: planning a trip this spring? We have tips
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate the first signs of spring, we’re bringing you a special Easter weekend episode full of tips for spring travel. FT Globetrotter editors Rebecca Rose and Niki Blasina run our insider guides to great cities. They tell Lilah how to make the most out of a holiday in April and May: from where to go and how to pack, to tips on travelling alone, with kids, and with pets.
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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):
Here are some relevant Globetrotter pieces:
– Five of Vancouver’s best ‘sea to sky’ adventures: https://on.ft.com/3PEKFVp
– A month-by-month guide to what’s on in Madrid: https://on.ft.com/49fbGFP
– The best ski resorts for a day trip from Tokyo: https://on.ft.com/43Ftito
– Lilah’s recent favourite Globetrotter piece is art critic Ariella Budick’s guide to MoMA in New York: https://on.ft.com/3VJ6FC2
– You can explore more from Globetrotter here (paywalled). They have food, drink and activity recommendations for cities around the world
– A dog-friendly hotel that Nikki recommends is the Fife Arms in Braemar, a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
– Rebecca is on Instagram @rebeccarosegoes. Niki is @nikiblasina
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend. I'm Lila Raptopoulos, and this is our Easter |
| 0:09.1 | weekend special. It's nearly springtime, and the flowers are budding, April is beckoning, |
| 0:15.0 | and in this episode, on your holiday weekend, we thought we would do something a little bit |
| 0:19.4 | different. We have invited the |
| 0:20.9 | editors of F.T. Globetrotter on to help inspire some ideas for small trips away this spring. |
| 0:27.0 | Globetrotter is our insider guide to great cities. Readers rely on their guides when they're |
| 0:31.3 | traveling to find restaurants and hotels, get acquainted with a city, and make the most out of |
| 0:36.2 | their holidays. All that is to say, they know what makes a great trip. |
| 0:39.8 | So today, they're going to give us their top tips for springtime travel. |
| 0:44.5 | And that's it. Let's get into it. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Lila here in New York, and I'm a weekend bag with a bikini and a raincoat. |
| 0:51.0 | With me from London is the editor of Globetrotter, Rebecca Rose. |
| 0:55.4 | She has pack light but paid extra for the legroom seats. |
| 0:58.7 | Hi, Rebecca. Welcome. |
| 0:59.8 | Hi. Thanks for having us. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:02.6 | And with Becca in London is Globetrotter's deputy editor, Nikki Blasina. |
| 1:07.8 | She has a dog-friendly hotel room and an early morning flight home. Hi, Nikki. Hello. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm so happy to have you both here. I thought that maybe to start off, we could set the |
| 1:21.0 | scene for listeners a little. I would love to hear from you what you love about traveling in the |
| 1:26.2 | spring. Like, are there any perks to traveling in the |
| 1:28.6 | spring? Oh, I would say yes. I mean, depending on where you live, there are some bank holidays |
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