Sweden: The year-round Ice Hotel in the arctic circle - BBC Travel Show BBC Travel Show 2017-09-11 | Ade checks out and spends a chilly night in the new Ice Hotel 365 as they make plans to open year round.
Italy: The people buying €1 homes in Puglia BBC Travel Show 2024-10-14 | Carmen Roberts explores the historic towns and villages that hug the coast in Puglia and discovers why cash incentives are being offered to buyers to relocate and renovate properties in this traditionally less prosperous part of the country.
Antarctica: Whats it like to camp in Antarctica? BBC Travel Show 2024-07-01 | Marc Cieslak continues his cruise thru Antarctica – culminating in a stay on ice where he contemplates the delicate balance that needs to be maintained between tourism and conservation in one of the world's last untouched frontiers.
Antarctica: Whale and seal spotting in one of the most beautiful places in the World BBC Travel Show 2024-06-27 | Marc Cieslak continues his cruise thru Antarctica
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Slovenia: The only way to reach them?! The military helicopters supplying remote mountaineers BBC Travel Show 2024-06-18 | Eva ZuBeck boards a military helicopter tasked with supplying mountaineers at the country’s remote refuges
Slovenia: a snow castle completion in the mountains! BBC Travel Show 2024-06-11 | Eva Zu Beck puts her building skills to the test in a snow-castle competition in Carpathia.
France: Cleaning the Seine for the Paris Olympics BBC Travel Show 2024-06-08 | former Paralympian Steve Brown ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games. As the Games are aiming to be the most sustainable ever, Steve meets a teenager who is on a personal mission to clean up the Seine in the hope that it can become swimmable for the athletes and the public.
France: The hot air balloon that is reducing air pollution in Paris BBC Travel Show 2024-06-06 | former Paralympian Steve Brown is in Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games. As the Games are aiming to be the most sustainable ever Steve will be meeting an inventor charged with reducing air pollution in the Athlete’s Village and taking a trip in his hot air balloon.
UK Rail: Francis Bourgeois meets a fellow rail enthusiast in Scotland! BBC Travel Show 2024-06-03 | Rail enthusiast Francis Bourgeois travels the length of Britain to share his passion for British built trains. As the railway prepares to celebrate its 200th birthday, we meet Jude and Arthur, Arthur is a passionate train spotter like Francis and Arthur's mum is able to run her business from train carriages and platforms as she travels with her son across the country. Watch the full programme on the BBC iPlayer by searching 'The Travel Show'
UK Rail: A ride along one of the most beautiful train lines in England BBC Travel Show 2024-06-01 | Rail enthusiast Francis Bourgeois travels the length of Britain to share his passion for British built trains. As the railway prepares to celebrate its 200th birthday, we meet the people at the Friends of the Settle to Carlisle line as the preserve this historic line. Watch the full programme on the BBC iPlayer by searching 'The Travel Show'
BBC Travel Show - The Golden Gays of Manila BBC Travel Show 2024-01-29 | This week on the Travel Show it's all about two very different types of royalty. Lucy Hedges is in Sweden as the country prepares to celebrate not just one, but two jubilees and Carmen Roberts is in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, meeting the oldest drag queens in town!
BBC Travel Show - Liverpool: The Greatest Showmen BBC Travel Show 2024-01-22 | The jury has finally returned its verdict and here are the results of this year's The Travel Show Eurovision special, as the team discover how Liverpool has taken Ukraine to its heart. William Lee Adams sets out to discover why the locals are reputed to be born entertainers, and Rajan Datar explores Liverpool's new links with last year's winners Ukraine and finds out how they are being put front and centre of the celebrations.
BBC Travel Show - Electric Dreams BBC Travel Show 2024-01-15 | This week Lucy Hedges is at one of the world’s most sustainable flight schools in Sweden. Travel vloggers Liv and Lew give behind-the-scenes access to their globe-trotting lifestyle; and Eva Zu Beck is in Canada getting stuck into a First Nation’s feast.
BBC Travel Show - Surveillance in the Sunshine BBC Travel Show 2024-01-01 | This week, Rajan Datar’s in Malaga taking a look at some of the surveillance tech that’s watching you on your holidays; blind traveller Lucy Edwards learns about the pitfalls of getting a guide dog through a busy airport and William Lee Adams heads to Scotland to find out what it takes to own and maintain your own castle.
BBC Travel Show - Picassos legacy in Malaga BBC Travel Show 2023-12-22 | Rajan Datar’s exploring the Spanish city of Malaga on the 50th anniversary of the death of its most famous son - the artist Pablo Picasso. Simon Calder’s got advice and recommendations for people looking to travel to the Olympic Games in Paris next year; and William Lee Adams heads to Glasgow for the story behind Britain’s favourite takeaway - the Tikka Masala.
BBC Travel Show - Pride of Sydney BBC Travel Show 2023-12-11 | As an enormous Pride festival arrives in Sydney, Jacqui Wakefield meets the indigenous Australians taking part for the first time, Simon Calder returns with more tips and advice for your travels and Ade Adepitan’s in Paris to find out why low alcohol wine is failing to inspire French drinkers.
BBC Travel Show - Four Legged Mail Trail BBC Travel Show 2023-12-09 | On this week’s show Eva Zu Beck visits Yukon in Canada to mark the 125th anniversary of the peak of the Gold Rush, and watches its famous but brutal 450 mile dog-sled race. The team catches up with the first Arab woman to summit K2 and visits Mexico to visit the forbidding Mexican prison turned into a nature reserve.
BBC Travel Show - Siargao - Surviving the storm BBC Travel Show 2023-12-04 | On this week’s show Carmen visits the island of Siargao in the Philippines, 2 years after the surfer’s paradise was devastated by Typhoon Odette to find out how it’s bouncing back. On her journey she visits one of the few places in the world that’s home to the stingless jellyfish.
BBC Travel Show - 1000 years of Mont St Michel (week 12) BBC Travel Show 2023-11-27 | This week, Ade Adepitan visits the French coast as the ancient site of Mont St Michel celebrates its thousandth anniversary, the team heads to eastern Canada to visit the port that likes to blow its own horn, and Jacqui Wakefield finds out how one sanctuary is hoping to save the Tasmanian Devil from the brink of extinction.
BBC Travel Show - Winter Best Bits 22-23 BBC Travel Show 2023-11-08 | A look back at some of The Travel Show’s recent highlights, including Eva Zu Beck’s trip to the canals of Mexico City, Ade Adepitan’s search for stolen art in Rome, and BBC 1Xtra DJ Reece Parkinson’s look at how he manages his Type 1 diabetes while partying on the Spanish island of Ibiza.
BBC Travel Show - Best Historical Journeys BBC Travel Show 2023-10-23 | Ade Adepitan looks back at some of the Travel Show’s most fascinating historical journeys; including a tour of Paris in a classic French car, an encounter in Chile with the world’s oldest mummies, and memories in Kenya of possibly the most famous lion to have graced the silver screen.
BBC Travel Show - Celebrating Windrush BBC Travel Show 2023-10-09 | This week Lucy’s exploring the legacy of the Windrush generation on British culture; the team meets one man who’s just finished completing seven marathons in seven days across seven continents, and Kimberley Davies is in New York to mark the 170th anniversary of one of the world’s most famous piano makers.
BBC Travel Show - Switzerland: Bunkers, balloons and bogies (week 7) BBC Travel Show 2023-09-25 | ...
BBC Travel Show - Benin Bronzes return BBC Travel Show 2023-09-18 | This week, we’re in Nigeria and the UK looking at looted artefacts. Thousands of Benin Bronzes were seized by the British over a century ago and scattered across the West – now some places are giving them back. Meanwhile, Simon Calder finds out why this might be the perfect time to book a break on Europe’s sleeper trains and we head to the spectacular and remote capital of lightning in Venezuela.
BBC Travel Show - Travel Like Us For Less BBC Travel Show 2023-09-04 | 2022 saw the Travel Show team hitting the road again as Covid restrictions finally lifted. But what we found was a changed world. With a travel industry still in recovery from the effects of the pandemic and travellers facing the new challenge of rising costs and all this set against the backdrop of trying to make every journey sustainable. Join Simon Calder as he looks back at our trips from last year and shows you how even though it might seem harder to reach your dream destination there’s still ways to travel that are easier on your pocket and the planet. We also head to Ecuador to find out who really discovered the Equator and in Spain we learn about the new art exhibition celebrating Ukrainian art.
BBC Travel Show - Moroccan Mosaics BBC Travel Show 2023-09-02 | Rajan Datar is in Fes in Morocco, finding out how the country is taking extra steps to hold onto it’s cultural heritage, we head to Turkey to check out an ancient delicacy that being given a modern makeover, and we’re in Africa with Senegal’s “King of Turtles”
BBC Travel Show - 2022 Highlight Compilation BBC Travel Show 2023-07-19 | Rajan Datar looks back a year when travel finally returned and the team got back on the road to bring you the best stories from around the world .
BBC Travel Show - Ancient Egypt Uncovered BBC Travel Show 2023-07-12 | As Egypt celebrates the centenary year of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, Rajan Datar heads to Luxor to come face to face with the Boy King himself. He hears about efforts to highlight the part Egyptians played in the astonishing find, including the contribution of one 12 year old boy whose ‘mistake’ may have changed everything. Elsewhere, the team’s in Austria meeting the terrifying figure whose Christmas spirit is a bit darker than Santa’s; and in Glasgow to find out why panto audiences there used to be some of the toughest in Britain
BBC Travel Show - Ibiza vs Type One Diabetes BBC Travel Show 2023-06-28 | ‘Ibiza vs Type One Diabetes. BBC Radio 1xtra DJ Reece Parkinson tests out if you can tackle the Spanish party island and keep a health condition like type one diabetes in check. Surfs up in Senegal, as Emeline Nsingi Nkosi rides the waves with an all-female surf team in West Africa.’
BBC Travel Show - How does a blind girl go on Safari Part 2 BBC Travel Show 2023-06-07 | It’s the finale of The Travel Show special ‘How Does a Blind Girl go on Safari?’. Visually impaired Lucy Edwards makes her way to the Maasai Mara for ‘The Great Migration’, said to be one of nature’s most spectacular events. In this episode Lucy comes across the last line of defence against rhino poaching, hikes down to the foot of Thomson’s Falls and spends the day at a Maasai Village. But will she get the chance to experience one of the elusive river crossings where wildebeest risk their lives passing lions and crocodiles? Part 2 of 2.
BBC Travel Show - How does a blind girl go on Safari Part 1 BBC Travel Show 2023-05-31 | Visually impaired social media star Lucy Edwards heads to Kenya for one of nature's most extraordinary events: 'The Great Migration'. It's one of the largest animal migrations in the world, in which over 1.5 million wildebeests make the perilous journey from Tanzania to Kenya in search of fresh grazing. But how will Lucy experience this once-in-a-lifetime must-see spectacular? In part one Lucy arrives in Nairobi but soon realises she's a fish out of water. But help is at hand when she meets Will, a guide who promises to tune her senses into Africa's landscape before embarking on her biggest adventure yet. Part 1 of 2
BBC Travel Show - Bogs By The Baltic BBC Travel Show 2023-05-24 | Christa Larwood visits Estonia to find out why some Russian monuments are being removed from public view, while other reminders of the Soviet-era are being restored and repurposed. She finds out how the country’s launched a new visa system to encourage remote workers to set up shop in the capital Tallinn, and tries out bog-swimming in the country’s vast and wild peatlands
BBC Travel Show - Sun Sea & Kite Surfing BBC Travel Show 2023-05-03 | This week’s Travel Show comes from Tarifa in southern Spain, where high winds make it the perfect place to hold the annual World Kite Surfing Championships. We’re also in Turkey to discover how the city of Mardin is becoming a hub for contemporary art and, as the music festival season comes to an end in the UK, we go behind the scenes at an event that hosts over 60’000 people every year to discover how all of the mind-boggling logistics come together !
