{"podcast":{"title":"Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers","slug":"gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978","podcast_index_feed_id":1061978,"rss_url":"https://tips4travellers.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://tips4travellers.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/7/d/d/07dd605fa222d2a916c3140a3186d450/Tips_For_Travellers_Podcast_July_2025.png","author":"Gary Bembridge","episode_count":561,"summary":"Want to make more of your precious travel time and money? Then the Tips For Travellers podcast is likely the podcast for you! Every week your host (Gary Bembridge, a published travel author, writer, video maker, blogger and YouTuber - his channel has over 29 million video views!) shares travel inspiration, advice, tips and money saving ideas based on his first-hand experiences of travelling every month of every year for over 25 years. Each episode features one of these (1) destinations reviews and tips, (2) answers to listener travel questions, (3) live travel reports or (4) cruise line reviews and advice on getting the most from them. Visit http://www.TipsForTravellers.com to follow Tips For Travellers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Twitter and to sign up for the monthly newsletter.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978"},"episode":{"title":"I've Cruised Europe's Rivers 12 Times. Here's What Nobody Warns You About (Podcast #547)","slug":"i-ve-cruised-europe-s-rivers-12-times-here-s-what-nobody-warns-you-about-podcast-547","published_at":"2025-10-06T06:18:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978/i-ve-cruised-europe-s-rivers-12-times-here-s-what-nobody-warns-you-about-podcast-547","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978","url":"https://tips4travellers.libsyn.com/ive-cruised-europes-rivers-12-times-heres-what-nobody-warns-you-about-podcast-547","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tips4travellers/547_TFT_River_Cruise_WO.mp3?dest-id=114478","summary":"I've cruised on European rivers 12 times and I am just back from a Rhine River cruise on Avalon Waterways. Once again, I met so many people who spoke about surprising and frustrating things they'd only encountered and realised once they were on the cruise because none of the lines, reviews, or commentators seem willing to talk about them frankly, or underplay them. Welcome aboard, I'm Gary Bembridge and here's what you need to know about European river cruising to avoid any disappointments, and make sure a river cruise is right for you. ** OFFER ** GET 10% OFF YOUR PERSONALISED \"THE CRUISE MAPS' USE THIS LINK: HTTPS://WWW.THECRUISEMAPS.COM/TFT (affiliate link) Become a Tips For Travellers Patron: https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers and get exclusive Patron-only content, downloads and livestreams Visit my Tips For Travellers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tipsfortravellers Offers: Get 10% any order of The Cruise Maps who you visit the site using this link: https://www.TheCruiseMaps.com/TFT Get up to 30% off collectible tokens of place you've visited using the link: https://www.TheWanderClub.com/TFT","meta_description":"I've cruised on European rivers 12 times and I am just back from a Rhine River cruise on Avalon Waterways. Once again, I met so many people who spoke abou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":901,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978/episodes/i-ve-cruised-europe-s-rivers-12-times-here-s-what-nobody-warns-you-about-podcast-547/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978/i-ve-cruised-europe-s-rivers-12-times-here-s-what-nobody-warns-you-about-podcast-547.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}