It’s the start of Season 3, and who better to join me to celebrate than Ben Fogle? Ben is not only an award-winning broadcaster, fronting many of our most loved TV shows - he is also one of the UK’s most prolific adventurers. He has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, swam from Alcaraz to San Francisco, run the Marathon Des Sables (a 6 day ultra marathon across the Sahara Desert), raced across the Antarctica to the South Pole and most recently climbed Mount Everest.  He’s written nine best-selling books - many about travel - and has the enviable title of the United Nations Patron of the Wilderness. And speaking of the Wilderness, he has travelled to every corner of the globe while filming his long-running hit TV series, New Lives in the Wild, a notion that feels particularly relevant right now during lockdown.  Get ready to be transported to Guatemala, the top of Mt Everest, Ethiopia, the Canadian Wilderness and…Ayia Napa, Here, are the travel diaries of Ben Fogle.  Destination Recap: - Taransay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland - Lake Chemong, Ontario, Canada - British Columbia, Canada - Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada - Latin America  - Quito, Ecuador - Antigua, Guatemala - Bolivia  - Pitcairn Island, South Pacific - Pleistocene Park, Siberia - The Atlantic Ocean - Mt Everest, Nepal  - Cornwall, England - Ethiopia - Lalibela, Ethiopia - Ayia Napa, Mallorca, Spain - Haiti - The Great Wall of China, China - The North Pole - The South Pole The Wilderness Collection for Barbour by Ben and Marina Fogle is available from www.benfogle.com Thank you so much for listening today. If you haven’t yet left a rating or a review, why not do so now? Your support is so greatly appreciated and most importantly, helps others to discover the podcast.  Don’t forget you can listen on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher and pretty much all other podcast apps. Hit subscribe and every week a new episode will appear in your library. To find out who’s on next week’s show come and find me on Instagram. I’m @hollyrubenstein and I’d love to hear from you. And visit TheTravelDiariesPodcast.com for everything podcast-related. I’m thrilled that today’s episode of The Travel Diaries is supported by Perowne International, a leading travel consultancy representing some of the finest hotels in the world from Finca Cortesin to Gleneagles to Le Bristol Paris to Six Senses. Follow their gorgeous travel snaps on Instagram here and read more about them on their website.  Today’s episode was recorded during the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown. It was produced by Holly Rubenstein.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.