# The Travel Diaries Podcast: The UK’s \#1 travel podcast > Travel and entertainment journalist Holly Rubenstein interviews high profile travellers about the eight travel chapters of their life\. Generated by Yoast SEO v28.6, this is an llms.txt file, meant for consumption by LLMs. ## Pages - [The Travel Diaries](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/) - [About](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/about/) - [Destinations Map](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/destinations-map/) - [Contact](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/contact/) - [Basket](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/basket/) ## Products - [THE TRAVEL DIARIES TRAVEL DIARY](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/product/the-travel-diaries-travel-diary/): Your very own limited edition luxury travel diary, inspired by The Travel Diaries podcast\. Listeners of the podcast will know that each episode uncovers the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped the lives of my guests\. Reflecting on these memories has proven to be a powerful, emotional and, above all, hugely enjoyable experience\. Now, it's over to you to create your own travel diaries\! ## Episodes - [Steve Backshall returns to the podcast\!](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/episodes/steve-backshall-returns-to-the-podcast/): \
Today’s guest is returning to the podcast after 5 years\! TV presenter, adventurer and explorer Steve Backshall is one of \the\ most travelled people in the world, \and\ one of the best story tellers \- so he is the ultimate Travel Diaries guest\. \
\Just listening back to his first episode in preparation for today was a reminder of what an amazing episode that was \- if you haven’t listened to that scroll back and listen to that first, because his life is so interesting, and then come back and listen to this one\!\
\It was so lovely to meet him in person this time, just last week\. We filmed this in London, and it was really good fun putting some of your new travel diaries chapters to him \- his answers were sensational\. When somebody has been to this many places it's hard to know where to start, but I think that you're going to be absolutely captivated by Steve's stories, as I was\.\
\So from Suriname to the Scilly Isles, Jerusalem to Alaska, and so much more, here’s Steve\.\
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Steve’s Deadly Live tour begins in October\. Find out more \here\\.\
\If you’d like to find out who’s joining me next Tuesday, come and follow me on\ Instagram \and \TikTok\, I’m @hollyrubenstein and I’d love to hear from you\.\
\I’ll be back on Sunday with another episode of Unpacked, this time with Conde Nast Traveller’s Digital Director, Sarah Allard\.\
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\\Kimpton Los Monteros \\- a five\-star hotel for discovering the best of Marbella\.\
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- [Unpacked: Japan, Mongolia, Praiano's Casa Angelina, Ladakh \& more with travel writer, Luke Abrahams](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/episodes/unpacked-japan-mongolia-praianos-casa-angelina-ladakh-more-with-travel-writer-luke-abrahams/): \Today I’m joined by travel writer, author and photographer, Luke Abrahams\. Luke is one of the UK's most prolific travel journalists, having been to 30 countries this year alone, and he's about to release a new book, The Luxury Travel Book: 25 personal experiences that make you rethink the world and your place in it\. These are stories that make you rethink the beauty of life and the mastery of human creativity, and it is packed full of his beautiful photography too\.\
\We'll be unpacking Ruthie Rogers' bucket list destination, Kyoto; reflecting on my Hotel of the Week, Casa Angelina; chatting about Luke's recent trip to Ladakh in Northern India, and answering your listener question\.\
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Luke's new book, The Luxury Travel Book: Extraordinary experiences money can't buy is available for pre\-order \here\\.\
\If you’d like to find out who’s joining me next Tuesday, come and follow me on\ Instagram \and \TikTok\, I’m @hollyrubenstein and I’d love to hear from you\.\
\With thanks to\.\.\.\
\Airbnb \- Your home might be worth more than you think\. Find out how much at \airbnb\.co\.uk/host\\
\I’ll be back on Tuesday\.\
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- [Ruthie Rogers](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/episodes/ruthie-rogers/): \Today’s guest is one of the most influential figures in British food\. Ruthie Rogers is the chef and co\-founder of The River Cafe, the legendary Michelin\-starred Italian restaurant in Hammersmith, which she opened with Rose Gray in 1987\. Over nearly four decades, The River Cafe has completely transformed the way we eat and think about Italian food in this country, and its kitchens have helped launch the careers of some of Britain’s best\-known chefs, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley\-Whittingstall, Theo Randall and April Bloomfield\.\
\But Ruthie’s influence extends far beyond the restaurant\. She’s the author of numerous much\-loved cookbooks and the host of the hugely successful podcast Ruthie’s Table 4, where an extraordinary guest list, from Paul McCartney and Elton John to David Beckham, Tony Blair and Nancy Pelosi, share the food memories that have shaped their lives\. The podcast has now inspired her beautiful new book, Table 4 at The River Cafe: Conversations about Food and Life\.\
\And it turns out that food memories and travel memories have a great deal in common\. Both can transport us instantly back to a particular person, place or moment in our lives\. \
\I joined Ruthie at The River Cafe on a gloriously sunny summers day\. Her travel diaries today take us from Cuba and Mexico to Maine and Marrakech, as well as her beloved Italy and the beautiful rhythm of family life she created with her late husband, the architect Richard Rogers, with summers in Tuscany, winters exploring the world and an almost constant desire to plan the next adventure\.\
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You can listen to Ruthie’s Table 4, wherever you get your podcasts\.\
\Her new book, Table 4 at The River Cafe: Conversations about Food and Life is available now\.\
\I’ll be back on Sunday with another episode of The Travel Diaries: Unpacked\.\
\If you’d like to find out who’s joining me next Tuesday, come and follow me on\ Instagram \and \TikTok\, I’m @hollyrubenstein and I’d love to hear from you\. \
\With thanks to\.\.\.\
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- [Unpacked: China, Uzbekistan, Baku, Six Senses \& more with travel editor, John O'Ceallaigh](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/episodes/unpacked-china-uzbekistan-baku-six-senses-more-with-travel-editor-john-oceallaigh/): \Hello and welcome to our very first episode of The Travel Diaries: Unpacked, your weekend travel fix\. \
\Today I’m joined by the fabulous John O'Ceallaigh\. John is a travel journalist and consultant to luxury hospitality brands, who previously served as the luxury travel editor for The Telegraph for nearly a decade\.\
\We'll be unpacking Nisha's bucket list destination, China; reflecting on my Hotel of the Week, Six Senses London; chatting about John's recent trip to Azerbaijan, and answering your listener question\.\
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All the destinations mentioned are included in the episode show notes and on \thetraveldiariespodcast\.com\ \
\If you’d like to find out who’s joining me next Tuesday, come and follow me on\ Instagram \and \TikTok\, I’m @hollyrubenstein and I’d love to hear from you\. \
\With thanks to\.\.\.\
\Airbnb \- Your home might be worth more than you think\. Find out how much at \airbnb\.co\.uk/host\\
\I’ll be back on Tuesday\. \
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- [Unpacked: World's 50 Best Hotels, Belmond Splendido, AlUla, Listener Q\&A \& more with travel editor, Lauren Ho](https://thetraveldiariespodcast.com/episodes/unpacked-worlds-50-best-hotels-belmond-splendido-alula-listener-qa-more-with-travel-editor-lauren-ho/): \This week on \The Travel Diaries: Unpacked\, I’m joined by Lauren Ho, one of the world’s most well\-travelled luxury hotel experts\. Lauren is Travel Director of \Wallpaper\*\, a contributing editor at \Country \& Town House\ and the Academy Chair for Western Europe for \The World’s 50 Best Hotels\\.\
\Recorded just days after this year’s list was revealed in Paris, Lauren shares her reaction to the results, why Asian hotels continue to dominate the top 10 and which new entries she was particularly pleased to see recognised\.\
\We also journey to AlUla in Saudi Arabia, where ancient Nabataean tombs, dramatic desert landscapes and extraordinary new hotels are putting the destination firmly on the travel map\. Lauren shares her recent stay at Six Senses Amaala on the Red Sea and takes us inside her trip to Georgia, from the hidden corners of Tbilisi to Kakheti’s vineyards and traditional amber wine\.\
\My Hotel of the Week is the newly restored \Splendido, A Belmond Hotel\, overlooking the impossibly beautiful harbour of Portofino\.\
\Plus, in our listener Q\&A, Lauren recommends the perfect luxurious but not completely bank\-breaking destination for a special family celebration\.\
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