I find it pretty infuriating and quite frightening.Worst hotel?One of those French roadside motels that have plastic on the mattresses. Bad, very bad.Best hotel?The Madonna Inn (001 800 543 9666; ) in San Luis Obispo, California. I slept in a room cut out of rock and it was like sleeping in a cave It’s so unpretentious and each room is themed. It’s like living in a cartoon; I felt like I was in The Flintstones. It’s so kitsch, the restaurant is pink with trees dotted around it.Favourite walk/swim/ride/drive?Riding in the Okavango; I galloped with a herd of giraffe and it was amazing.Best meal abroad?Rome during the truffle season. I travel all the time; I’m on a trans-Atlantic plane almost every two weeks.Worst travel experience?Getting stuck in Bangkok airport on my own after travelling for four months. They wouldn’t let me leave because my visa had expired and I had no money to pay the fine, so I was stuck there for 12 hours.

Luckily I knew somebody who was flying back on the same flight and I borrowed the money from her.Worst holiday?I have had a few terrible skiing holidays. They can go horribly wrong when you’re with people who are better skiers than you. They end up taking you down black runs, which is a nightmare. I loved the feeling of living in the wilderness and visions of it stay in my mind. One minute we were driving around the Okavango Delta watching the annual migration of the animals and the next we were on quad-bikes zooming across the salt pans.Better to travel or arrive?Arriving, because I hate travelling. I’m definitely not an adrenalin junkie.Greatest travel luxury?Turning left on a plane.Holiday reading?I try to read when I’m travelling because there are no distractions.

I recently read The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which I really enjoyed.Where has seduced you?Jack’s Camp in Botswana It is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. Indeed, its version will still be going in February in Belfast. And the impresario Raymond Gubbay is making sure that cities and towns including Leeds, Hull and Croydon are not left out by bringing back the Siberia State Ballet for the third year.”There’s certainly a market there,” he said. I don’t get to travel with her enough because I’m in New York and she’s in Barbados, so I only see her when she’s here.Beach bum, culture vulture or adrenalin junkie?I’m a combination of a beach bum and culture vulture. We’re like sisters and best friends and we like doing the same things.