Travelling on

Press, 4 March 1988, Page 17

Travelling on

Viewers who have! not made up their minds whether to go elephant riding j in Thailand or gold-mining in Kalj oor- v lie for their holidays this year can settle back and watch the “Holi lay” crew do it first and then decide. “Holiday” begins tonight at 8 on One w th 'a new crew member, Kevin Milne from ‘Fair Go." He joins Avon Adams ' and Jary McCormick in search of the delights (and pit alls) of getting away frem it all. , i I Gary McCormick stays at home this year and experiences the local attractions, such as trout fishing in Turangi, and Maori culture oi J a Rotorua marae. He also discovers some o ; his Scottish heritage ! in Dunedin. I !

Kevin Milne heads west to the heat, dust and shopping delights of Australia, with reports on gypsy caravaning, Melbourne stores, and life in Perth after the America’s Cup. For the more exotically minded, Avon Adams risks the perils of the steamy tropics as she takes us through the well-known and not-so-well-known tourist attractions of Thailand, Hong Kong and Macau. She found that holidaying there is one thing, filming is quite something else: “The heat was the worst part,”(she reports. “We were drenched in sweat almost the whole time. The camera equipment beganj to suffer * n Northern Thailand — at one point, Ithe " camera refused to switch off, and

the battery had to be disconnected.” Another fact of life for film-makers on a tight schedule is that they cannot aHord to be sick, which is a constant hazard when eating unfamiliar food in a tropical country! '' Says Adams: “We couldn’t afford to be offduty for a minute, so we were extra careful about what we ate and drank. We stuck to food we could ; actually watch being cooked — rice and meat dishes mainly l—and only drank canned drinks which we could rely on being sterile.” The ; programme tonight will cover the Thai capital, Bangkok, a troiitfishingi expedition in Turangi, and a tour of Melbourne! in the company of the Australian comedian, Rod Quantok.