Away with Gina Chick: ‘I like to travel with a parrot. I get to feel like a pirate’

Gina Chick: ‘I find that if I can swim in the water, my system calibrates to the time zone.’ Photograph: Tim Bauer

Gina Chick has a wise take on riding the waves of travel.

“Things happen on holiday – your stuff gets stolen, the car breaks down, you miss your flights, there’s some giant weather event,” she says. “But afterwards they’re the things that bring you together, that you remember and tell stories about for the rest of your life. And I love the holidays that turn into an adventure. They’re my favourite.”