Former tennis champion, broadcaster and Strictly Come Dancing star Annabel Croft joins Tanya Rose to share her travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Annabel takes us on a journey of all the fabulous places she’s visited whilst on the tennis tour, shares why she believes everyone needs to visit the Igazú Falls in Argentina and describes her gruesome experience on ‘Snake Alley’ in Taipei…

Plus, Annabel reveals her favourite restaurant in Portugal and tells the hilarious tale of her hotel room getting robbed on a family holiday in Thailand!

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Places mentioned:

Igazú Falls, Argentina

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Taipei, Taiwan

New Zealand

Pisa, Italy

Split, Croatia

Cape Town, South Africa

Sr Franco, Almancil, Portugal

Thailand

Chapters

00:00 Intro

07:47 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

12:42 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience

19:41 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

29:19 Secret 4: Best Food & Drink while travelling

34:35 Secret 5: Number 1 travel tip

37:20 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip

44:42 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

Star of Succession and Pride & Prejudice Matthew Macfadyen joins Tanya Rose to share his travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Matthew shares his extraordinary experience filming Succession in a deserted Florence, his poignant family skiing holiday and reveals why he believes a good tour guide is worth their weight in gold…

Plus, Matthew shares his top travel tip and unpacks his emotional experience visiting a small church in Bologna.

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Places mentioned:

Budapest, Hungary
Chapters

00:00 Intro

04:25 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

06:32 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience

10:01 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

13:13 Secret 4: Best Food & Drink while travelling

18:31 Secret 5: Number 1 travel tip

20:16 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip

24:10 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

26:24 Outro

The brilliant British actor Alistair Petrie joins Tanya Rose to share his travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Alistair discusses his nomadic childhood travelling across the world as a military family, shares his wild story of partying in a palace in India and tells all about his fascinating experience swimming with dolphins in Hawaii.

Plus, Alistair shares his poignant experience visiting the Taj Mahal with his family and reveals his favourite travel destination that is so underrated, they operate by word-of-mouth advertising only…

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Places mentioned:

The brilliant Canadian-British fashion designer Patrick Cox joins Tanya Rose to share his travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Patrick takes us behind the scenes of his extraordinary private tour of the Palace of Versailles, shares how spotting gorillas in Gabon was a transformative experience and discusses his poignant experience swimming with whales in Indonesia.

Plus, Patrick shares how his travel journey has also been a spiritual one, and reveals how being introduced to psychedelics in Ibiza changed his life…

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Places mentioned:

Chapters

00:00 Intro

10:54 Secret 1: Most unexpected travel experience

18:40 Secret 2: Most Overrated or Underrated travel experience

23:36 Secret 3: Best Food & Drink while travelling

28:06 Secret 4: Number 1 travel tip

36:35 Secret 5 Poignant memory from a trip

51:10 Secret 6: Special travel photograph

The exceptional actor, author and presenter Rose Ayling-Ellis joins Tanya Rose to share her travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Rose tells us all about her recent solo backpacking trip across Southeast Asia, why she thinks Bali is overrated and the travel destinations which have inspired her passion for nature conservation.

Plus, Rose shares her poignant memory seeing manta rays in the Maldives and reveals the restaurant where she had the best pasta dish of her life… 

The full transcript of this episode is available here.

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Places mentioned:

Chapters

00:00 Intro

05:10 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

08:48 Secret 2: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

13:12 Secret 3: Most unexpected travel experience

14:58 Secret 4: Best Food & Drink while travelling

18:22 Secret 5: Number 1 travel tip

21:56 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip

28:33 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

29:22 Outro

The brilliant comedian, TV presenter and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax joins Tanya Rose to share her travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Ruby tells us all about how she escaped from finishing school in Switzerland, takes us behind the scenes of some of her most iconic celebrity interviews and reveals how she hitchhiked to Mexico whilst at university!

Plus, Ruby discusses her poignant experience volunteering at a refugee camp in Cape Town and shares how her friendship with the late Alan Rickman shaped the course of her life.

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Places mentioned:

Chapters

00:00 Intro

10:00 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

14:02 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience

21:51 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

30:39 Secret 5: Best Food & Drink while travelling

38:19 Secret 4: Number 1 travel tip

40:38 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip 

43:45 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

45:17 Outro

The incomparable actor, presenter and activist Jameela Jamil joins Tanya Rose to share her travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Jameela tells the tale of experiencing an earthquake in Tokyo, shares why she wants to grow older in Berlin and reveals why she always checks hotels aren’t haunted before staying the night…

Plus, Jameela shares how the lack of culture in Los Angeles helped her find herself and discusses why it’s so important to capture every waking moment of your travels.

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Places mentioned:

Chapters

00:00 Intro

05:44 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

09:24 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience

11:08 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

20:14 Secret 5: Best Food & Drink while travelling

25:39 Secret 4: Number 1 travel tip

36:30 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip 

42:31 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

44:37 Outro

Legendary celebrity hairdresser Sam McKnight joins Tanya Rose to share his travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Sam shares his poignant experience visiting Pakistan as Princess Diana’s personal hairstylist, recounts his adventures visiting Paris for Karl Lagerfeld’s fashion shows and discusses his unbelievable adventure whitewater rafting across America for a British Vogue photoshoot!

Plus, Sam reveals why Italy is his top travel destination and gives some expert advice for protecting your hair from the sun when on holiday.

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Places mentioned:

Chapters

00:00 Intro

04:53 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

07:13 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience

12:22 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

19:27 Secret 5: Best Food & Drink while travelling

25:50 Secret 4: Number 1 travel tip

31:38 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip 

36:14 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

36:53 Outro

Olivier Award-winning actress Celia Imrie joins Tanya Rose to divulge her travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Celia discusses her life-changing experience filming The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in India, why she believes everyone needs to visit the Grand Canyon and opens up about why she’ll never travel by plane again!

Plus, she recounts an eventful train journey from Bulgaria to Paris and explains why staying in an ice hotel didn’t quite live up to expectations…

Celia stars in The Thursday Murder Club, which is out now on Netflix. She is also appearing in The Celebrity Traitors - coming this October!

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Places mentioned: 

Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:21 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

06:55 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience

13:13 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

15:54 Secret 5: Best Food & Drink while travelling

21:17 Secret 4: Number 1 travel tip

24:51 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip 

32:08 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

35:43 Outro

Star of Slow Horses and Missing You Rosalind Eleazar joins Tanya Rose to share her travel secrets this week.

In this episode, Rosalind discusses how her love of travel was forged going on business trips with her mother and her fond childhood memories spent on multiple Greek Islands.

Plus, Rosalind shares how a trip to Colombia changed her perspective on the country and her poignant travel experience visiting her father’s home village.

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Places mentioned:

Chapters

00:00 Intro

04:58 Secret 1: Number 1 travel destination everybody should go to

11:48 Secret 2: Most unexpected travel experience

19:06 Secret 3: Most Over or Underrated travel experience

27:10 Secret 5: Best Food & Drink while travelling

36:33 Secret 4: Number 1 travel tip

39:24 Secret 6: Poignant memory from a trip 

46:52 Secret 7: Special travel photograph

49:45 Outro