Being Haunted by Stalin | Travel Secrets from Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prize-winning historian and bestselling author, and he shares an abundance of travel secrets with Tanya Rose this week. Simon shares the hotel in Italy you should avoid, top tips for finding the best coffee wherever you’re visiting and why his best meal was in a shack in Romania. Plus, Simon offers a substantial list of hotel recommendations across the world, the sinister story of eating with a dentist turned warlord and where you can find the best negroni in London. Don’t forget to follow @travelsecretsthepodcast and remember, you can watch all of our episodes on YouTube. PLACES MENTIONED: Moscova Hotel, Moscow Jerusalem, Israel The King David, Jerusalem The American Colony, Jerusalem Tbilisi, Georgia Borgo Egnazia Hotel, Southern Italy The Carlyle New York Hotel Sacher, Vienna Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid Hotel Alfonso XIII, Seville Ciragan Palace Kempinski, Istanbul The Peninsula, Istanbul Hotel Hassler Roma Pożegnanie z Afryką Cafe (Out of Africa) Krakow, Poland Villa Maroc, Essaouira, Morocco Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco Royal Mansour Marrakech Hotel, Morocco Mauritania, Northwest Africa Romania Verdura, Sicily Mediterraneo, London Batumi, Georgia Sokhumi, the Republic of Abkhazia Ghana, West Africa Hotel Kavkaz, Czechia Soho Beach House, Miami