Richard and Jack Dee take a trip to Naples featuring humour, history, culture, pizza, Vespas and chaotic traffic, a trip to Capri, and a guide to the meaning of dreams. Hollywood actor Paul Rudd joins Richard to discover Finland's seaside capital, with a time-efficient exploration by kayak, a good steaming in the city's saunas, and salty sweets.Īctor and comedian Adam Buxton joins Richard for a high-speed tour of Portugal's capital, with trams, rickshaw, funicular and fado, and a visit to a doll hospital. Their overflowing schedule includes skyscrapers, rollerblades, museums, ferries, showtunes and cronuts. Richard and comedian Katherine Ryan take a fast and funny trip to New York. Richard heads for super-cool Berlin with comedian Roisin Conaty, taking in the city's famed nightlife, Checkpoint Charlie, fancy food, and a replica Cold War apartment. Richard stretches the description mini break to the limit as he heads to the United Arab Emirates for a luxury bonanza with comedian Johnny Vegas. Richard and Jo Brand do a fast, funny and ruthlessly efficient trip to Venice, learning to row a gondola, sampling Venetian tapas, and staying at the famous Hotel Danieli. Richard Ayoade heads to southern Spain with comedian Rob Delaney from Catastrophe, where they eat tapas, learn to dance flamenco, and go a bit Wild West. Richard and Greg Davies attempt to extract the essence of Moscow in two days, as they clash with army tanks, head into space, and visit one of the strangest circuses in the world. Richard Ayoade and Mel Giedroyc do a Paris le weekend, with snails, absinthe, a Cordon Bleu cookery course, bespoke perfume, and an art tour.Ĭomedian Noel Fielding joins Richard for 48 fast and funny hours in the Danish capital, with cycling, sightseeing, art, sandwiches, beer, and rollercoasters. The pair also take a hot-rod tour, visit a fairground, the Freud museum, and the city sewers. Richard goes to Vienna with comedian Chris O'Dowd to sample the sausages, cakes, wines, and spirits. Ayoade watches Mangan eat steamed sheep's head. Richard and actor Stephen Mangan go hot air ballooning and camel riding on a quickie weekend trip in Morocco. Richard takes actor Jessica Hynes on a whirlwind weekend away to the stunning scenery of Iceland, for waterfalls, geysers, whales, rotten shark, and elf school. Richard and comedian Adam Hills embark on a whirlwind visit in Istanbul, including a boat trip, a massage, a very close shave, and some haggling at the Grand Bazaar.
Richard and actor Kathy Burke do Barcelona in 48 hours, including some far-out cuisine, Cava tasting, a guided tricycle tour, and surrealist artist Miró.
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In July 2019, Channel 4 announced that Ayoade would be leaving the show after the ninth series and would be replaced as host by comedian Joe Lycett. The programme has been twice nominated in the Best Features category at the BAFTAs and won Best Factual Programme three years running at the RTS Midlands awards. The series is characterised by fast-paced format, consumer advice and light humour. Since its premiere, the programme focuses on the presenter travelling to a popular city in each episode, accompanied by a celebrity guest, to provide viewers a potential itinerary for a two-day (48 hour) long break. It can found on Australia TV on SBS or SBS On Demand. Travel Man is a British television travel documentary series, presented by Richard Ayoade, and produced by North One Television for Channel 4. ( September 2020)ģ0 minutes, except for Christmas specials, which are 1h Further details may exist on the talk page. Please expand the article to include this information. This article is missing information about format, ratings and awards/nominations.