Matt Ward is the night show host on hauraki.co.nz
What was your greatest holiday? Kruger National Park in South Africa — it was pretty amazing seeing all the animals in their natural habitat. Then it was off to Cape Town for Rocking The Daisies Music Festival. Great festy but terrible place to be when the All Blacks lose to the Springboks. Shark cage diving the next day had me pretty fried by the end of the trip.
And the worst? The holidays are never bad, it's the travelling that sucks. Busing from Phuket to Koh Phangan in Thailand for eight-plus hours when the only song on my phone was Journey's Don't Stop Believing was a brutally fitting torture. I was shoe-horned into the back seat next to everyone's luggage with my face mashed up against the window.
Getting stung by a scorpion while showering in Mozambique was also not great. Nor was running semi-nude to reception asking what to do. Bloody good diving there, though.
If we bump into you on holiday, what are you most likely to be doing? You'll bump into me at a bar chatting to locals about the place ... that's how you get your best experiences.
If we could teleport you to one place in New Zealand for a week-long holiday, where would it be?
Russell in the Bay of Islands. Such a beautiful spot, rich
in history.