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What has Richard Ayoade done since leaving Travel Man as series drops on Netflix

Richard Ayoade hosted Travel Man for nine series before stepping down from the Channel 4 show. Here's what the comedian and actor has been up to since leaving the travel documentary series

• 16:02, 10 Oct 2022

A new series of Travel Man will be available for us to binge on Netflix - but a familiar face who has been part of the show throughout will be missing in the latest instalment.

Comedian and actor Richard Ayoade , who hosted the travel show, stepped down after nine seasons back in July 2019.

He has been replaced by comedian Joe Lycett, who is set to host the 2022 series of the Channel 4 show. Lycett's first episode as host aired in December 2021.

Here's everything you need to know about what Richard Ayoade has been up to since leaving Travel Man.

What has Richard Ayoade done since leaving Travel Man?

Richard Ayoade left Travel Man back in 2019, and he hasn't been short of work since.

The 45-year-old presenter hosted the BAFTA awards for the first time back in May 2020, amid the pandemic, and returned as host of the awards in both 2021 and 2022 as well.

Ayoade previously wrote three comedic film–focused books: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey (2014), The Grip of Film (2017), and Ayoade on Top (2019). He is currently writing two children books as well - The Book That No One Wanted to Read (2022), as well as a picture book called The Fairy Tale Fan Club.

When did Richard Ayoade start his career and what has he done?

Richard Ayoade began his career back in the 90s with several cult hits such as The Mighty Boosh.

He rose to further fame by playing Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd with Chris O’Dowd, starting in 2006.

Since then, Richard has also directed films and music videos for the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend.

He has even won a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance for his IT Crowd role in 2014, years prior to taking over as host of the awards.

Besides his acting and directing gigs, he has also hosted several shows including the Big Fat Quiz Of The Year, 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Gadget Man as well as the reboot of 90s game show The Crystal Maze.

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Richard Ayoade quitting Travel Man

Upcoming ninth series will be the last for uk comedian, but the show will live on..

• Published by David Knox
• on July 10, 2019
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UK comedian Richard Ayoade is quitting his Travel Man series after the upcoming ninth season.

But the series will continue with comedian Joe Lycett ( The Great British Sewing Bee, 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI ) from 2020.

The IT Crowd and Crystal Maze star will present his final, ninth, series later this year.

Ayoade has explored more than 40 cities with 48 hour mini-breaks including Copenhagen with Noel Fielding, Athens with Dawn French, Brussels with Lee Mack, Venice with Jo Brand, St Petersburg with Rob Beckett, and Lycett in Amsterdam.

Ian Dunkley, Channel 4’s commissioning editor for factual entertainment said: “We’re delighted to welcome Joe on board and to let him offer his own unique take on every whistle-stop, 48-hour mini-break we send him on.”

Lycett added: “I’m beyond excited to take over the brilliant, charming show that Richard has nurtured. I’m less excited about the number of times I’m going to have to take off my shoes at Birmingham Airport.”

Travel Man airs in Australia on SBS VICELAND.

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As Mac said, They’re both very funny comics from very different schools, (Our senses of humour must be similarly developed!) but I can’t think of anyone better off hand to succeed Richard. As long as it doesn’t lose that breakneck pace – which seems to suit the more … hyperactive elements of Joe’s style I will definitely be watching. Count me in as looking forward to the change-over.

Sidebar: Getaway is still on?? News to me.

Love this show. Richard Ayoade is a non-stop barrel of sardonic laughs. Joe Lycett also has me in stitches with a totally different style so I’m kinda glad they’re not trying to ‘replace’ Richard. It will be a totally new feel so can’t wait to see what he does with it.

I very much enjoyed Travel Man. I liked the concept of having a comedian and his guests as travel show presenters. The charisma and humour of Richard Ayoade and guests added another dimension to the travels. It’s something you don’t get in travel shows like Getaway where the presenters are more earnest. Though I still like Getaway too. The charisma of the presenters was one of the things that made travel shows like No Reservations and Pilot Guides/Lonely Planet enjoyable too.

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Richard Ayoade is writing two children’s books after leaving Travel Man in 2019

Richard Ayoade is no longer hosting Channel 4’s Travel Man and has been replaced by Joe Lycett as host for the new season, starting on December 29. So, what is Richard up to now?

Joe’s first episode on Travel Man aired in December 2021. It comes after Richard left Travel Man back in 2019 after nine long seasons, and hasn’t been short of work since, but that doesn’t mean that fans don’t seriously miss him.

Although it’s been a year since Richard stopped appearing on Travel Man, many are still discussing what happened to him. Season 7 is underway as Joe goes to Rio de Janeiro with Stephen Mangan.

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What happened to Richard on Travel Man?

Richard announced that he was stepping down from Travel Man in 2019. He never gave a reason but fans have speculated that he “hates travelling” and that the show “isn’t doing it for him anymore.”

He was also asked to do Channel 4’s Taskmaster but couldn’t join the line-up due to how busy he was filming Travel Man, with most fingers pointing to unconfirmed rumors that he left due to a long stint on the show. A fan said:

It’s possible that it just took a lot of time and felt he’d done enough of it. He did plenty of episodes. And he got a new show just last year, though I doubt it takes long to film (Question Team, on Dave, it’s pretty fun).

Since announcing his departure from Travel Man, Richard has hosted Question Team and is writing two children’s books: The Book That No One Wanted to Read in 2022, and a picture book called The Fairy Tale Fan Club.

GRV Media and Reality Titbit have contacted Richard’s representatives for comment.

Joe Lycett replaced Richard Ayoade

Joe replaced Richard in 2021 and continues to host Travel Man. As per TV Tonight , he said:

I’m beyond excited to take over the brilliant, charming show that Richard has nurtured. I’m less excited about the number of times I’m going to have to take off my shoes at Birmingham Airport.

During Travel Man Christmas Special 2022, Joe and Stephen Mangan romp around Rio de Janeiro as they take to the skies, try out their samba skills, and learn to cook a Christmas dinner Brazilian-style.

Joe will continue to host the Channel 4 show into 2023. Season 8 Episode 1, set to air on Jan 13, will see Sarah Millican join him in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, to go hot air ballooning, eat cepelinai dumplings, and visit Lukiskes Prison.

Fans discuss Richard’s Travel Man exit

A Reddit thread has been ongoing in 2022 which saw Travel Man longtime viewers discuss Richard’s exit, with no confirmed reason as to why he quit the Channel 4 show.

One fan wrote: “I cannot find a reason as to why he quit. I have seen the newest episode with Joe Lycett and on the fence to his delivery style. I am going to miss Richard Ayoade.”

Another said: “Not unusual for actors to give something up after 7 years, probably just got tired of it.”

“He literally stated that he hates travelling. The show isn’t doing it for him anymore,” reacted a fellow fan.

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Richard Ayoade's Travel Man replacement has officially been announced after nine series

The IT Crowd star is stepping down later this year.

Richard Ayoade is stepping down from his role as host of Channel 4's Travel Man later this year, after what will be his ninth series of presenting the show.

That doesn't mean the show is ending, however. The network has announced that The IT Crowd star will be replaced by the brilliant Joe Lycett.

Across Ayoade's years on the show, he has travelled with people like Dawn French, Jon Hamm, Noel Fielding and... oh, who's that? Joe Lycett.

"I'm beyond excited to take over the brilliant, charming show that Richard has nurtured," Lycett said. "I'm less excited about the number of times I'm going to have to take off my shoes at Birmingham Airport."

Channel 4's Commissioning Editor of Factual Entertainment, Ian Dunkley, added: "We're delighted to welcome Joe onboard and to let him offer his own unique take on every whistle-stop, 48-hour mini-break we send him on."

Ayoade's final series will air later this year, while Lycett's first series will air in 2020.

Lycett recently fronted the Watchdog- esque consumer affairs show Joe Lycett's Got Your Back for Channel 4, and took over from Claudia Winkleman as host of The Great British Sewing Bee earlier this year.

Outside of acting and hosting shows like Travel Man and the Crystal Maze reboot, Ayoade is behind the films Submarine and the wonderfully weird The Double .

Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer and resident Welsh person at Digital Spy , having worked there since 2016. 

In his time he's covered a host of live events, interviewed celebrities big and small and crowbarred a countless amount of great/awful (delete as appropriate) puns into articles. 

A big fan of TV and movies both mainstream and obscure, Joe's main interest is in video gaming. Although particularly a PlayStation gamer, he plays across Xbox, Nintendo and PC/Steam Deck, and likes to keep tabs on many games he's not got the time to play.

Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I'm a Fish (which you really should do).

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“Travel Man,” Richard Ayoade’s Travel Show for People Who Hate Travel

By Sarah Larson

There are many kinds of travel shows—just as there are many kinds of travellers—and many ways in which they can intrigue or repel us. This summer, I watched quite a few, as I was taking an uncharacteristically ambitious trip and wanted a sense of what I was in for. I set my DVR to auto-record shows about Copenhagen, the Faroe Islands, Tuscany, and France, and then marvelled at the breadth of its harvest. There was “ The Wine Show ,” in which the actors Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys bopped around Tuscany, sampling vintages and rolling a wine barrel up a hill; the peppily question-and-answer-filled “ Curious Traveler ,” with Christine van Blokland, punctuated with “Huh?” and “Ah!” sound effects; “ Parts Unknown ,” Anthony Bourdain ’s singular cultural reconnaissance via food; and the ubiquitous Rick Steves , bringing his bountiful tips and deflatingly Stevesian sensibility to every corner of Europe. All of this was informative but alienating: these travellers were nothing like me, and I wouldn’t travel like them. It was hard to imagine myself in their shoes. Then I discovered “Travel Man.”

“ Travel Man: 48 Hours in . . . ” is a British series in which the comedian, writer, actor, and director Richard Ayoade spends forty-eight hours in a city, accompanied by various friends—“some of the most available and affordable names in light ent,” as he puts it—and tells us about what to do there. “Mini-breaks are a swirling nebula of nonsense!” he says at the top of “ Copenhagen ,” during a brisk montage of him in Venice, Copenhagen, Vienna, and Moscow. “How can anyone go somewhere new and be expected to enjoy themselves without a decade to decompress?” Exactly , I thought. This is the show for me. Ayoade is perhaps best known from the beloved British sitcom “ The IT Crowd ,” in which he and Chris O’Dowd co-starred as I.T. guys, and for his films “ Submarine ” (2010) and “ The Double ” (2013), which he wrote and directed. “Travel Man” began in 2015, as a spinoff of a show called “ Gadget Man ,” which Ayoade had taken over, as host, from Stephen Fry . He’s far more ubiquitous in the U.K. than he is in the States, but he seems due for an American embiggening .

On “Travel Man,” Ayoade is fun to look at (snappy suits, thick-framed glasses, expression of amused diffidence) and fun to listen to. (Of a monastery turned hotel in Naples, he says, “As well as modish guff, like a rooftop pool and a spa, it retains attractive old shiz, like staircases dug into the hillside.”) His persona is warmly amused, broadly skeptical, and gently astringent—i.e., British. He’s not a joiner. His intros conclude with him saying, in that episode’s particular city and with that episode’s particular guest, “We’re here, but should we have come?” It’s a refreshing tone for a travel series—somewhere between jumping in with both feet and looking askance at everything on earth, including the notion of fun on a weekend getaway. Where Rick Steves adopts an attitude of agreeable derring-do—in Siena, while wearing a Drago contrada neckerchief at a Drago contrada feast before the inter- contrada horse race, Steves says, “Even if I don’t fully understand what’s happening, the excitement is contagious and the wine is delightful!”—Ayoade does things like approach a toboggan on a snowy Norwegian hillside while muttering, “Generally, anything that requires a helmet, I avoid.” He makes it known that he’s happiest in bookstores, not in pre-vomit scenarios or places where lots of people are screaming, and then dutifully boards a hundred-year-old wooden roller coaster in Tivoli Gardens, looking apprehensive.

“Travel Man” is helpful, too. Ayoade gives practical information up top, such as the city’s population, the annual number of tourists, and historic cultural distinctions—which include, for Copenhagen, “Hans Christian Andersen, Sandi Toksvig , Lego, the pedal bin, and my old adversary, the pH scale.” Little price tags pop up onscreen to indicate how many pounds things cost—flights, hotels, food, handy gear. Whether it’s relevant to you or not, the practical information helps create a vivid impression. Ayoade and his guest tend to stay in hotels that are unusual and fancier than I can afford, but pleasing to vicariously enjoy. “The luxury Belvedere suite offers a well-wide view of Vienna, as well as a display hammock,” Ayoade says, entering his hotel room. “But I have no time for display hammocks!” He bats aside the hammock as he breezes past it. “Unpacking squanders time and is a bourgeois indulgence,” he says, briskly hanging up his clothes rack-cum-duffel bag (“£90 approx”). He sometimes claims the fancier lodgings for himself, part of an amusing recurring tactic of being discourteous to his companion. (His comic rudeness can remind me of Jemaine on “ Flight of the Conchords ,” if Jemaine were not such a dim bulb.) In Vienna, Ayoade has “arranged something bespoke,” outside, for Chris O’Dowd: an Airstream trailer from 1952. (“I know how much you like to be near a major highway,” he says.) In Marrakech, when Stephen Mangan, trying to navigate them out of an alley, says, “My map says that way, but my heart says that way,” Ayoade, beaming, replies, “Let’s go with the map, rather than your rotten heart.”

Having a companion join in, besides providing “the illusion of bonhomie,” as Ayoade says, is a smart way to offset the slightly embarrassing explanatory nature of a travel show—there’s less of a false intimacy between viewer and host. Instead, we see Ayoade and friend in action together, bombing around town via bicycle, funicular, hot rod, tank taxi, horse-drawn carriage, camel, Vespa, or tuk-tuk (“Lisbon’s steep slopin’ need not ruin your scopin’,” he says). The show’s editing of their adventures is energetic, occasionally near-Eisensteinian; it feels efficient and encourages the notion, however accurate, that travel is bracing and jolly. Ayoade and friend combine visiting attractions that we would expect, like the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (“It calls for a brief pause in glibness”), with the less expected: golfing in Tenerife, a doll hospital in Lisbon , a cave tour in Slovenia. The show’s most famous scene is undoubtedly its hair-raising trip to a Vienna snow-globe museum —I’ll let you discover it for yourself—but that episode features an equally funny scene at the Sigmund Freud Museum, during a conversation involving Darth Vader’s helmet.

“Travel Man” is not necessarily best enjoyed in a binge. (There are nine short seasons and three Christmas specials.) Too much at once can highlight the effort involved in its stars’ banter, and you occasionally worry that Ayoade’s companion won’t be quite as fun as he is, a worry that is sometimes justified. But enjoyed responsibly, the potent, savory series provides what you most seek from a travel show: a sense of a place and an idea of how you might find yourself in it. It combines TV’s particular efficiency in revealing the sights and sounds of a destination with the sense of what an amiable neurotic might experience there. At this point in my year, having long since returned from my adventures in Europe, I am mere months into the decade I’ll need to decompress from even one fjord. Part of that process involves recreational “Travel Man,” where Ayoade adventures so I don’t have to. “This is the sexiest place on the planet,” a Miami skipper tells him proudly, on a boat tour. “People come here to have a good time and let loose and have fun.”

“Sounds like hell,” Ayoade says.

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Travel Man: 48 Hours in Madrid: the chemistry was lacking in Richard Ayoade’s final weekend jaunt

In the final episode before joe lycett takes over, ayoade was as droll as ever in his offbeat tour of madrid, but the laughs were limited.

Travel Man: 48 Hours in Madrid, Channel 4, 8.30pm ★★★

For the past four years Richard Ayoade has spent his weekends traversing the globe for Travel Man , exploring great metropolises with wry, deadpan commentary. This isn’t supposed to be an informative travelogue but instead, the entertainment relies on his chemistry with his companions.

There are few comedians left who have not joined him, from Dawn French to David Baddiel to Eddie Izzard to Lena Dunham. In Madrid, his final trip, it was stand-up Ellie Taylor, and the sparks were a little lacking.

I’ll admit, it was hard to watch their trip objectively: Madrid is my former home and is, unequivocally, the greatest place on God’s green (or in the case of central Spain, scorched red) earth.

It is also the finest city in Europe for art – I had to remind myself it is Ayoade’s job to be facetious as he visited the Museo Reina Sofia and too-swiftly brushed off Guernika, one of the most powerful and devastating anti-war works of art in history as “the now-cancelled Picasso’s cri de coeur”. (He also described Dali as “a bit prog rock for me”, while at the Museo del Prado, Taylor’s comments on Velasquez’s iconic Las Meninas was that you could “climb in it, like in Harry Potter”.) 

My heart wept when Taylor was served the finest cuts of Iberian pork in the land and poked at her plate, wondering whether it was cooked or not

Their less orthodox itinerary included a visit to a violet sweet shop and an “atheistic ‘quatholic’ Mass”; all satisfactorily droll but my heart wept when later, visiting a master cortador to learn how to properly carve a jamon serrano, Taylor was served the finest cuts of Iberian pork in the land and poked at her plate, wondering whether it was cooked or not. In jest, perhaps, but still the most tiresome remark one could hear at a foreign dinner table.

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Travel Man: 48 Hours in … Rome review – a gentle mini-break for the mind

Richard Ayoade takes Matt Lucas on a surreal whistlestop tour through the byways and white-knuckle highways of Rome

T ravel Man: 48 Hours In …, in which we visit various cities around the world in the company of presenter Richard Ayoade , is back for a sixth series “with some of the most available and affordable names in light ent”. In last night’s opening episode , Ayoade visited Rome with comedian Matt Lucas, who provided the complementary rather than competitive guest presence with which the programme works best.

“I’m worried about sunburn,” says Lucas, dolefully rubbing his famously bald head . They buy him a fedora from Rome’s oldest milliners. “You look like a post-colonial Kojak reboot,” says Ayoade with satisfaction. Later they sit down to an exquisite multiple course lunch, through which Ayoade chomps enthusiastically and appreciatively while Lucas gazes yet more dolefully at the delicate dishes placed in front of him. “I have the eating age of a nine-year-old.” He perks up – these things are relative – at pudding time. “I shall end up overweight.”

They stay in a 16th-century townhouse, and visit the Coliseum, the Pantheon and the Trevi fountain. Ayoade recalls Rome’s history on film while Lucas wishes for a Champions League place for Arsenal. “What does that mean, exactly?” asks Ayoade with almost-interest.

Travel Man ( Channel 4 ) is good at what it does. It’s there not to unearth hidden treasures or introduce you to tremendously exotic locales – like the previous five series, this one seems set to concentrate on established mini-break destinations – but to give you a roughly budgeted whistlestop tour of a commonly visited city, and whet your appetite to go there again. It saves itself from becoming an extended travel advert by throwing Ayoade’s unsettling presence into the mix.

Ayoade’s fans (of which I am one) enjoy his dry, laconic-to-the-point-of-arrogance attitude, occasional excursions into mild surrealism (“The scales are just to weigh my scales”) and unabashed verbal flourishes (“I think,” he says, as they are overtaken in their Fiat by yet another erratic Italian driver, “what I’ve seen most of in Rome is my own whitening knuckles”). There is a cleansing aspect to it all. It’s like having the expectation centres of your brain gently exfoliated.

That said, it’s probably wise to keep the programme as short as they do. Even the best companions can become too much. Consider Travel Man a meta-warning for all mini-break plans.

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Christmas special  .

Comedian and Author David Baddiel joins Richard Ayoade for a supersized seasonal minibreak in Jordan.  HOTEL:

  The W Amman https://www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/ammwi-w-amman/   Sun City Camp https://www.suncitycamp.com/ FOOD AND DRINK:  Hashem Restaurant ​King Faisal Street, Amman, Jordan Mr Lollies  Rainbow Street, Amman, Jordan Bedouin Zarb Widely available in Wadi Rum  Beit Sitti  https://beitsitti.com/ ACTIVITIES:  

Amman Citadel  K. Ali Ben Al-Hussein Street 146, Amman, Jordan  Gold shop – M. Sakijha Jewellery  Downtown, King Faysal Square, Gold Market, Amman, Jordan Myrrh and spice shop  Sha'aban 9 Street, Amman, Jordan Dead Sea – Holiday Inn Resort Dead Sea  https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnresorts/hotels/us/en/dead-sea/ddljo/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=GoogleMaps-_-HI-_-JO-_-DDLJO#   Mount Nebo  Madaba, Jordan Smallest Hotel  Opposite Shobak Castle, Shobak Hejaz Railway experience http://jhrc.jo/home.aspx   Gyrocopters  http://www.rascj.com/   Camels and 4x4  Widely available in Wadi Rum Petra http://www.visitpetra.jo/   Sand art  Inside Petra, beyond the Treasury but before the Roman Theatre.  Spice shop – ‘I Have Frankincense’  Inside Petra, after Roman Theatre, below the Royal Tombs. WITH THANKS:  

Jordan Tourism Board  http://www.visitjordan.com/ ​ ​

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EpiSode One 

Comedy goddess Dawn French joins Richard in Athens for some ancient history, doughnuts, molecular food, ouzo, and a radical pedicure involving a toothless fish.

HOTEL:  The New Hotel https://www.yeshotels.gr/newhotel/ FOOD AND DRINK:  Funky Gourmet https://www.funkygourmet.com/   Doughnuts in Lukumades http://lukumades.com/   Ouzo tasting in Brettos Bar https://brettosplaka.com/ ACTIVITIES: The Alternative Athens ‘Olympic Workout Tour’ https://www.alternativeathens.com/tours/olympic-games/   Sandals by Pantelis Melissinos - The Poet Sandal Maker  https://melissinos-sandals-poet.com/sandals/   Lake Vouliagmeni  https://www.limnivouliagmenis.gr/en/    WITH THANKS: Timelapse location –  http://aforathens.com/  * Monuments belong to the Greek Ministry  

EpiSode TWO 

RNish Kumar joins Richard for a potter round Porto.Their stuffed mini-break includes scooters, a tipple or two, a fat sandwich, pastries, confession, and some amazing views of Portugal's second city. ​HOTEL:  The Porto A.S 1829 Hotel  https://as1829.luxhotels.pt/ FOOD AND DRINK:  Avant Garde Crew Pastry and Cake tour  https://www.avantgardecrew.com/product/portos-traditional-pastry-and-best-cakes/   Throughout the experience, you will visit three different famous local bakeries and learn all about their origins and history. You will taste eight different cakes and pastries and understand how these cakes and pastries are made.   Café Santiago for the Francesinha  https://cafesantiago.pt/index.php/en/   The Yeatman – Port on the Terrace  https://www.the-yeatman-hotel.com/en/ ACTIVITIES: Monkey Riders – scooter hire https://monkeyrider.pt/   5D Cinema http://www.lookatporto.pt/about?lang=en   Livraria Lello (book shop) https://www.livrarialello.pt/en-us/   Wax Shop Rua da Assunção, Porto, Portugal   Bridge climb https://www.portobridgeclimb.com/home-en  

EpiSode Three

Richard and Alice Levine - DJ, broadcaster & podcaster - do Estonia's capital in 48 hours - including the most see-able sights, some nosh at its top restaurant, and a stroke of Sean Connery's face. ​HOTEL:  KODA Stay  https://kodastay.com/ FOOD AND DRINK:  NOA https://www.noaresto.ee/   Pegasus https://www.restoranpegasus.ee/?lang=eng ACTIVITIES:

Tv Tower https://www.teletorn.ee/en/   Free Walking Tour with Riina from EstAdventures  www.estadventures.ee   Reflector Shop - Oma Asi  https://www.omaasi.com/   Reflector Brand HELK https://helkstore.eu/en/   Hotel Viru KGB Tour  https://viru.ee/en   Kick Sledding https://360.ee/en/toursmenu   Šoti Klubi (Scottish Club)  http://www.leibresto.ee/en/scottish-club/   Marzipan Painting  https://kohvikmaiasmokk.ee/en/   Lennusadam (Seaplane Harbour) Museum  http://meremuuseum.ee/lennusadam/en/

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Richard Ayoade and Bob Mortimer go for a spin round cosmopolitan Hamburg. There's a Beatles tour in the red-light district, some local hash - corned beef - and hip cocktails. ​

HOTEL:  25hours Hotel Hamburg HafenCity https://www.25hours-hotels.com/en/hotels/hamburg/hafencity FOOD AND DRINK:  Labskaus at Anno 1905 http://www.anno1905.de/   Drip Bar https://www.dripbar.de/   Fish Sandwiches at Ankerplatz  Address: St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken, 20359 Hamburg ACTIVITIES:

Elbphilharmonie  https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/   Beatles Tour http://www.hempels-musictour.de/en/   Ferry number 62 to Finkenwerder    Zitronenjette Address: Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 7, 20459 Hamburg   German Additive Substance Museum https://www.zusatzstoffmuseum.de/   Beach Bar – Strandperle  https://www.strandperle-hamburg.de/

A new episode of Britain’s “Travel Man” TV show features Budapest

On Monday evening, Great Britain’s Channel 4 premiered a new episode of its popular “Travel Man” TV show – hosted by Richard Ayoade, best known as Moss from “The IT Crowd” – that highlights Budapest, covering many of the city’s major attractions in a madcap 48-hour tour. Joined by Irish comedian Aisling Bea, Ayoade plays chess at Széchenyi Bath, dines at a traditional Hungarian restaurant amid live Gypsy music, and embarks on a “selfie tour” led by seasoned local guide Miklós Molnár, who also attempts to teach the famously erudite host a few Hungarian phrases.

In the second episode of the third season of “ Travel Man ”, host Richard Ayoade embarks on a 48-hour whirlwind tour of Budapest, after previous episodes highlighted his hilarious two-day excursions in destinations ranging from Iceland to Istanbul to New York and beyond. Joined by Irish comedian Aisling Bea in Hungary’s capital, Ayoade visits all of the city’s primary tourist attractions – including the Parliament , the Chain Bridge , and Széchenyi Bath – while also admiring some more bizarre Budapest landmarks, like the statue of Columbo at one end of Falk Miksa Street .

In this episode, Miklós Molnár – one of Budapest’s most knowledgeable guides, heading the Fungarian agency providing city tours and Hungarian-language crash courses – led Ayoade and Bea on a “selfie tour” to cover numerous local landmarks in the shortest time possible. Molnár also tried to teach Ayoade a few phrases in Hungarian, with predictably humorous results.

Although we cannot access the entire episode online yet, you can watch the combined trailer for “ Travel Man ” in St. Petersburg and Budapest below; check out Channel 4 ’s “ Travel Man ” episode guide here for more details.

UPDATE: North One Television posted two extended clips from the Budapest episode of “ Travel Man ” on their YouTube page – you can watch them both below:

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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hungary's EU membership, the city is hosting a vibrant urban festival from May 1st to 5th.

Meet Budapest's very first strip club: Rózsaszín Cicák

Budapest's nightlife roared with the arrival of Rózsaszín Cicák, the city's first striptease bar.

Hop back on the Zugliget Chairlift, one of the city's most fun attractions

After a 7-month hiatus for maintenance, the Zugliget Chairlift is ready to transport passengers in the picturesque Buda Hills once again.

Sziget Festival 2024: Kylie Minogue joining the headliners and more updates

Headliners have already been announced, including Fred Again.., Sam Smith, and Martin Garrix, and now new updates landed.

Joe Lycett shows us how to get the most out of some of the world's most popular mini-breaks

Richard and Joe Wilkinson whizz round the historic Polish city, stopping for some baking, local dumplings, art nouveau, vodka, salt mines, showcase socialist realism, and a bit of soldering

Jessica Fostekew and Joe enjoy volcanic vino and cactus croquettes on their Canarian caper

Adam Buxton and Joe explore Czech sights, eat sausages from skulls and hop into a beer spa

Desiree Burch joins Joe in Rovaniemi for aurorae-gazing and sleigh-riding shenanigans

Alan Davies and Joe traverse around Trieste and shoot the breeze at the Wind Museum

Joe and Asim Chaudhry visit an underwater museum and a world-famous skatepark

Joe and Roisin Conaty enjoy a culinary horse-carriage tour and a spot of musical cycling

Joe and comedian Mawaan Rizwan spend two days sightseeing, swimming and swigging stout

Sarah Millican joins Joe for hot air ballooning, cepelini dumplings and gira in Vilnius

96 Hours in Rio

Joe and Stephen Mangan visit Christ the Redeemer and cook Christmas dinner Brazilian-style

Joe and Katherine Parkinson sample local beers and explore Antwerp's subterranean tunnels

Joe and Mo Gilligan get hands-on with halloumi and sample a 24-carat gold ice lolly

Aisling Bea joins Joe for some Croatian cooking, paddleboarding and a visit to Froggyland

The Basque Country

Joe and James Acaster bask in Bilbao's art, kalimotxos and foodie capital San Sebastián

96 Hours in Iceland

New host Joe Lycett is off on his debut voyage to Iceland with comedian Bill Bailey

Richard and Ellie Taylor team up for a two-day meander rich in art, history and ham

Richard and Joe Wilkinson whizz round the historic Polish city, with art nouveau and vodka

Richard and Lou Sanders have a blast in Bergen, Norway

A Game of Thrones tour and a trip to a cursed island with Stephen Merchant

Richard Ayoade and Bob Mortimer go for a spin round cosmopolitan Hamburg

Richard and Alice Levine - DJ, broadcaster & podcaster - do Estonia's capital in 48 hours

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