Wanderlust Magazine's Lyn Hughes
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m joined by Lyn Hughes, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of one of the UK's best-loved travel magazines, Wanderlust. In the early nineties Lyn and her late husband were bored on a flight to South America, so they schemed out their dream travel magazine on the back of a sick-bag. The idea stuck and, returning to the UK a few months later, they launched Wanderlust magazine from their spare bedroom, with Lyn as editor and her husband, Paul, as publisher. The magazine gradually grew through word of mouth, and now, years later, it’s one of the UK’s leading travel magazines. Of course, through her work with the magazine, Lyn has travelled all around the world, and has her finger on the pulse of what’s hot and what’s not when it comes to travel. I particularly love her hidden gem in this episode and along with her travel diaries we cover wildlife travel, future travel trends, and of course a little bit of travel during Covid - it’s hard to escape it at the moment. As usual, though, the plan is to transport you far away from all those worries, so from New Zealand and Borneo, to Macedonia and Morocco here are the travel diaries of Lynn Hughes.
Destination Recap:
- Southport, Merseyside, England
- Exmoor, Devon, England
- Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England
- Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore trip
- Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia
- African safaris including Zambia
- Caiman Lodge, The Pantanal, Brazil
- Kaikoura, New Zealand
- Marrakech, Morocco
- Number 43, Cumbria, England
- Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
- St Naum Monastery, North Macedonia
- Japan
- Sumatra, Indonesia
- Sabah, Borneo
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel and entertainment journalist. And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations that |
| 0:23.2 | have shaped their lives. Today, I'm joined by Wonderlust Magazine's co-founder and editor-in-chief |
| 0:30.3 | Lynn Hughes. Lynn will tell us more about this great story, but in the early 90s, she and her |
| 0:36.8 | late husband were bored on a flight to South |
| 0:39.0 | America, and so they schemed out their dream travel magazine on the back of a sick bag. |
| 0:45.9 | The idea stuck, and returning to the UK a few months later, they launched Wanderlasm magazine |
| 0:51.3 | from their spare bedroom, with Lynne as editor and Paul, her husband, |
| 0:55.9 | as publisher. The magazine gradually grew through word of mouth, and now years later, it's one of the |
| 1:01.6 | UK's leading travel magazines. Of course, through her work with the magazine, Lynn has travelled |
| 1:07.4 | all over the world and has her finger on the pulse of what's hot and what's not |
| 1:12.0 | when it comes to travel. I particularly love her hidden gem in this episode and along with her |
| 1:17.6 | travel diaries we cover wildlife travel, future travel trends and of course a little bit of travel |
| 1:22.7 | during COVID. It's hard to escape it, isn't it? And doesn't it feel like the goalposts are changing the |
| 1:27.9 | whole time at the moment? Anyway, as usual, the plan is to transport you far away from those |
| 1:33.6 | worries. So from New Zealand and Borneo to Macedonia and Morocco. Here are the |
| 1:40.3 | wanderlust-inspiring travel diaries of Lynn Hughes. |
| 1:47.7 | Lynn Hughes, welcome to the Travel Diaries. Thank you so much for joining me today. How are you? |
| 1:54.6 | Oh, fine. Thank you, Holly. You know, in these strange times, aren't they? These surreal times that we're living in at the |
| 2:01.9 | Manage. And how are you feeling now that travel's getting going again? It's really exciting to |
| 2:09.1 | see travel start up again. Although what is quite ironic is that I actually live, well, near Windsor, |
| 2:16.5 | which is near Heathrow. And so I live under the |
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