HeyJaredThe Top Travel Destinations with Kevin Flanagan
Want to know where to shop, eat, drink and stay at the world’s top travel destinations?Let Kevin Flanagan bring you his twenty years of experience as travel editor and writer for publications such as The Sunday Independent and the Sunday Times.Kevin’s done the research so you…
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Hotel Eden - Top Travel Destination (opens the original)
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Kevin, Kuba & Maya stay in one of the most legendary hotels in Europe: the Hotel Eden in Rome, part of the Dorchester Group. What he finds there is beyond belief! You can also follow The Top Travel Destinations on social media for updates: Instagram: @thetoptraveldestinations X: @becreativekev
Rome - the Good, Bad & Ugly - Top Travel Destinations (opens the original)
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Kevin visits The Eternal City after a long gap and is surprised to find the city mightily changed and not all for the better You can also follow The Top Travel Destinations on social media for updates: Instagram: @thetoptraveldestinations X: @becreativekev
The Miracle of Rome - Kev's Travel Stories (opens the original)
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Rome has always held a special place in Kevin’s heart — that is before he had to attend the funeral of one of his best friends the morning of his next visit. Will the grief at losing a friend change how Kevin views the Eternal City? Listen to find out. You can also follow The Top Travel Destinations on social media for updates: Instagram: @thetoptraveldestinations X: @becreativekev
Europe’s Darkest Cellar — The Room Where Rasputin Died - Kev's Travel Stories (opens the original)
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Beneath one of St Petersburg's most gilded palaces lies a cold, vaulted cellar where, one December night in 1916, aristocrats poisoned, shot and finally drowned Grigori Rasputin — the monk who would not die. Kevin descends the staircase, stands among the wax figures at the fatal supper table, and discovers a room that is so disturbing it leaves some people in a cold sweat. It also later inspired his novel, The Secret of the Sacred Spear. Travel, it seems, can be fertile ground for a soaring imag
How Travel Inspires a Novel - Vienna and the Spear of Destiny (opens the original)
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Vienna: schnitzel, Sachertorte, coffee-house afternoons — and, hidden in the Hofburg's Imperial Treasury, an iron spearhead legend calls the Spear of Destiny: the lance of Longinus, coveted by emperors and stolen by Hitler himself. Kevin follows it from Vienna to a claustrophobic Nuremberg bunker — and reveals how standing before this relic inspired his novel, The Secret of the Sacred Spear. You can also follow The Top Travel Destinations on social media for updates: Instagram: @thetoptraveldes
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