In this episode of Trip Notes, host Juliette Sivertsen takes a new approach to keeping your travel dreams alive during the lockdown. As our guests are unable to come to the studio to record, we are revisiting some of our previously published travel stories. In this episode, we retell Herald journalist Kirsty Johnston's experience of a partial eclipse in Niue. For more travel inspiration, go to https://nzherald.co.nz/tripnotes You can follow the Herald travel team at https://instagram.com/nzhtrav...
Apr 13, 2020•13 min
Broadcasting legend Judy Bailey discusses her earliest travel memories, as well as her passion for the beauty and wildlife of Botswana. Also, how does a news junkie switch off while they're travelling? For more travel inspiration go to https://www.nzherald.co.nz/tripnotes and, when you're ready for your own adventure, go to https://www.houseoftravel.co.nz . You can reach Stephanie Holmes at https://www.instagram.com/holmesstephanie or https://www.twitter.com/holmesstephanie , and the travel team...
Mar 30, 2020•22 min
Bachelorette NZ contestants Lily McManus and Lesina Nakhid-Schuster share their experience filming in Argentina, using travel to get over a break-up and tips on how to make friends while travelling. For more travel inspiration go to https://www.nzherald.co.nz/tripnotes and, when you're ready for your own adventure, go to https://www.houseoftravel.co.nz . You can reach Stephanie Holmes at https://www.instagram.com/holmesstephanie or https://www.twitter.com/holmesstephanie , and the travel team at...
Mar 16, 2020•38 min
In the new season of Travel podcast Trip Notes, chef, writer and presenter Peta Mathias shares how she fell in love with Paris, why India is still one of her favourite countries to lead a tour, and tales of love and heartache across the world. The Eat Your Heart Out author speaks with Travel editor Stephanie Holmes and Travel deputy-editor Maggie Wicks. For more travel inspiration go to https://www.nzherald.co.nz/tripnotes and, when you're ready for your own adventure, go to https://www.houseoft...
Mar 02, 2020•31 min
Canadian-born, New Zealand-based country & soul singer/songwriter Tami Neilson is on the show this week, brought to you by House of Travel. Tami grew up performing across North America with her parents and brothers as part of the Neilson Family Band - they lived in a 12m motorhome. "Travelling is my default mode. It's strange for me to be in one place for a long time," she says. For more travel inspiration go to https://www.nzherald.co.nz/tripnotes and, when you're ready for your own adventu...
Feb 17, 2020•34 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with Newstalk ZB and TVNZ presenter Jack Tame. He's been back living in New Zealand for a few years now, but Jack previously spent five years living in New York as 1 News' US correspondent. Is living in the city that never sleeps really as exciting as we imagine it would be? And, how magical is it at Christmas? Jack ...
Dec 23, 2019•41 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with TV host Hayley Sproull. When she’s not busy hosting multiple primetime television shows like Great Kiwi Bake Off and Have You Been Paying Attention, Hayley Sproull has spent two decades performing with Lochiel, the most successful marching team in New Zealand history. The sport has taken her all around the world...
Dec 09, 2019•36 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with The Hits Breakfast host Toni Street. With three young children and the demands of a job that sees her up at 4am every morning, Toni knows the power of a holiday. And after a well-documented battle with a life-threatening auto-immune disease, she knows better than most the importance of recharging the batteries. ...
Nov 25, 2019•35 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with Gareth Stewart. As executive chef for the Nourish Group, British expat Gareth Stewart knows a thing or two about food. So there was no better candidate to be our guest on a special food-themed episode. Stewart has most recently created the excellent menu for Nourish’s new gastropub venture The Brit, but when he’...
Nov 11, 2019•30 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with Travel Editor Winston Aldworth. Everybody dreams of getting paid to travel the world, but is it really as good as people think it is? We get the inside info from Winston, who calls it "a unicorn job", and has experienced everything from opulent palaces in India, to trekking in Nepal, to private Rolls Royce trans...
Oct 28, 2019•27 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with Kiwi supermodel, TV presenter and author, Rachel Hunter. "Our Rach" is probably New Zealand's most famous export, and she's been travelling the world since she left for New York to start her modelling career, aged just 16. She talks about her early days as a model in NYC, and what it was like to be so far from h...
Oct 21, 2019•31 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode we chat with House of Travel expert Katrina Cole. Katrina has 38 years' experience in the travel industry, and every day helps people make their holiday dreams come true. She's been on 13 cruises - on ships big and small; ocean and river; budget and luxury - so knows a thing or two about what makes a good cruise holiday. This episode will tell you everything y...
Oct 14, 2019•36 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with comedian/actor/playwright and Auckland mayoral hopeful Tom Sainsbury. Tom, who stars in the new season of Wellington Paranormal on TVNZ 2, loves travel but - like his comedy - his favourite destinations are a little off beat. We talk Sweden, Jersey and the Chatham Islands... then bring it back to more familiar t...
Oct 07, 2019•31 min
Each episode, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with NZ hospitality legend Judith Tabron. After close to 20 years at the helm of super-successful Auckland Viaduct institution Soul Bar, Judith sold up last year to take some time out, travel the world and think about what she wanted to do next. This month, she's hitting our screens twice a week as co-host of TVNZ's ...
Sep 30, 2019•30 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by House of Travel, we chat with Bree Tomasel. If you're one of her ZM Drive listeners or 100,000-plus Instagram followers (hi, Channing Tatum, we're talking to you), you'll already know Bree and her unmistakable Aussie accent. But in the last couple of months, Bree has been wrangling celebrities like Shane Cameron, Eric Murray, Jodie Rimmer ...
Sep 16, 2019•32 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, we chat with Lorna Subritzky. Best known as Coast's days host, her alter-ego is Lorna the Explorer - she loves to travel and is often posting glamorous, envy-inducing tropical holiday pics on her Instagram. But Lorna reveals she was quite a late bloomer when it comes to travel ... now she's certainly making up for lost time. Lorna tells us about the travel ...
Sep 02, 2019•27 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, we chat with Michael Galvin. He's known and loved in New Zealand for playing Dr Chris Warner in the country's longest-running soap opera Shortland Street, a role he's had since the show started in 1994... apart from a four year break early on. He left the show in 1996 and moved to London, but his dreams of finding fame and fortune there didn't quite work ou...
Aug 19, 2019•31 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, we chat with Hayley Holt. Professional snowboarder and ballroom dancer, Green MP, TVNZ Breakfast host - Hayley has done it all... including once winning Celebrity Treasure Island. She tells us what it was like to compete on the show, which is returning to TV this month, and whether she'd like to do it all again. Hayley also talks about her memories of trave...
Aug 05, 2019•28 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, we talk to Stacey Morrison. Stacey is quite possibly the busiest woman in New Zealand. Not only does she co-host The Hits Drive Show with Mike Puru, she’s also an ambassador for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, a best-selling author, a teacher at Massey University, and mum to three children. And somehow, among all that, she still manages to fit in ...
Jul 22, 2019•28 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, we're joined by James Thornton, CEO of Intrepid Travel, who tells us what it's like to be CEO of a global travel company with an annual revenue now well over $400 million. We also chat about his favourite places to travel, and some issues close to his heart. Born in the UK, now based in Melbourne, James has been in the hot seat of Intrepid for more than thr...
Jul 08, 2019•27 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by Intrepid Travel, we chat to Kiwi actor Michelle Langstone, star of Westside, 800 Words, McLeod's Daughters, The Bad Seed, Go Girls, The Almighty Johnsons and many more. When we invited Michelle into the studio to talk about the joys of group travel, we weren’t exactly prepared for her response. “I have never, ever, ever done a group trip, ...
Jun 24, 2019•22 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. On this episode, brought to you by Intrepid Travel, we chat to Clarke Gayford. He's now often referred to as New Zealand's First Man, but Clarke Gayford has a long history of working in travel - he hosted TV series Getaway, he finished in the top 10 of Tourism Queensland's viral competition to win the Best Job in the World, and now hosts Fish of the Day - a travel, fishing ...
Jun 10, 2019•27 min
Each fortnight, Trip Notes hosts Stephanie Holmes and Tim Roxborogh are joined by a special guest to talk all about travel. For our very first episode, brought to you by Intrepid Travel, TVNZ Breakfast newsreader Daniel Faitaua is with us in the studio. Daniel tells us more about his former life as an Air New Zealand flight attendant - what he enjoyed about it, and why he gave it up. He reveals the highs and lows of his travelling life so far - his first overseas trip as a wide-eyed 16-year-old,...
May 27, 2019•26 min
