What was your greatest holiday?
We love the Far North and some of our most memorable holidays have been spent there exploring the beautiful beaches of the Hokianga, Karikari Peninsula and the Tutukaka coast. As a family, we love walking, free diving, surfing and paddling, so the upper North Island is our favourite place on earth.
And the worst?
There are no worst holidays, that's like asking what's the worst chocolate bar? That said, appalling weather dampened our exploration of the Central Plateau several summers ago. After days of reading and scrabble, we embraced the wet and went white-water rafting and tramping in the pouring rain.
If we bump into you on holiday, what are you most likely to be doing?
I'll be the one under the big pohutukawa tree on the beach reading a book, waving out occasionally in an encouraging manner to my boys (Mr Barry and the teenagers) who are probably surfing or paddling.
If we could teleport you to one place in New Zealand for a week-long holiday, where would it be?
Take me to Northland; any one of those beautiful white, sandy beaches will be enough to replenish my soul.
How about for a dream holiday internationally?
I'd love to have a white Christmas one day, maybe in Salzburg or Prague. I've only ever had summer Christmases and I'm dying to have that fairy tale cake-tin experience; the lights, the cold, the carollers, the horse-drawn carriages in the snow.
