Lattes, Luggage & Life is your coffee break travel chat.
Hosted by Holly from Avandra Travel Services, this podcast explores the highs, challenges and realities of travelling – from Disney adventures and cruises to travelling as a family and making holidays work for everyone.
Because travel is never just about the destination.
Episode 25 - Murder, Mystery & a Boarding Pass – Holidays for True Crime Lovers
What happens when your love of travel meets your obsession with true crime?
This week on Lattes, Luggage & Life, we’re exploring the darker side of travel — from infamous prisons and unsolved mysteries to witch trials, gangsters and destinations with some seriously fascinating history.
We’re heading to Alcatraz in San Francisco, Jack the Ripper’s London, Salem’s witch-trial history, Edinburgh’s darker past, the Paris Catacombs, Chicago and Las Vegas’ gangster connections, historic prisons across the world and plenty more.
We also talk about Auschwitz-Birkenau and why some places connected with tragedy sit in a completely different category — where visiting is about remembrance, education and understanding history rather than entertainment.
And that brings us to the big question:
When does dark tourism cross the line?
Can we be fascinated by true crime while still respecting the victims? And why are humans so obsessed with mysteries that were never solved?
If your Netflix history is 90% murder documentaries, you’ve ever convinced yourself you could solve a 100-year-old cold case from your sofa, or you fancy adding something a little darker to your next city break… this one's for you.
Want a holiday built around something you love?
Avandra Travel Services
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30 Sept 2026
Episode 24 - Booked & Bookish: The Ultimate Holidays for People Who'd Rather Be Reading
What if your perfect holiday isn’t about a packed itinerary… but finding somewhere beautiful, opening a book and being left completely alone?
This week on Lattes, Luggage & Life, we’re travelling the world through books.
From hotels filled with thousands of books and incredible libraries you can actually stay in, to literary escapes in Edinburgh, Bath, Paris, Porto and the Lake District. We’re also talking cruises made for sea-day reading, Maldives villas where doing absolutely nothing is encouraged, cosy cabins in the middle of nowhere and destinations inspired by some of the world’s most-loved stories.
Whether you’d rather spend your holiday exploring bookshops, following in the footsteps of your favourite author or sitting on a balcony reading for six uninterrupted hours, this episode is for you.
Because maybe we need to stop asking, “Where do you want to go?” and start asking:
“What do you love doing?”
And yes, taking seven books for a seven-night holiday is completely reasonable.
Want me to create a holiday around something you love?
Avandra Travel Services
Your Travel Fairy Godmother
Email: avandra@experienceitnowtravel.co.uk (mailto:avandra@experienceitnowtravel.co.uk)
Call/WhatsApp: 07442 144889
ABTA & ATOL protected
Personal service from enquiry to return
24/7 support while you’re away
24 Sept 2026
Episode 23: Main Character Energy – Holidays Inspired by Films, TV & TikTok
Have you ever watched a film, binged a TV series or spent five minutes on TikTok and suddenly decided… I NEED to go there?
This week on Lattes, Luggage & Life, we’re talking Main Character Holidays – the destinations that films, TV and social media have made us desperate to visit.
From riding the Jacobite steam train across the Glenfinnan Viaduct for your Harry Potter moment, to living out Mamma Mia in Greece, Emily in Paris, New York at Christmas, Bridgerton in Bath, The White Lotus, Eat Pray Love and the destinations TikTok has completely taken over.
We’re talking about the actual places you can visit, the fantasy versus the reality, and whether social media is now choosing our holidays for us.
And yes… I fully support dramatically staring out of a train window pretending you’re on your way to Hogwarts.
Want to book your own Main Character Holiday?
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