A Place In the Sun star Sara Damergi has a taste for danger

Travelling the globe is a real love affair fro Channel 4’s A Place In the Sun presenter Sara Damergi.

“I think I inherited my love of travelling from my mum. During the 1970s, she travelled all over, especially to Italy where she went to work as a DJ.

Although they were cheap and cheerful breaks, I think we had about five holidays a year when I was a kid.

I’ve been away so much in my life that I think I’m addicted to travel but not the standard package holiday.

They’d be just too restrictive for me, although I have a good friend who’d get stressed out no end by the way I do things.

I usually just take a backpack, not a suitcase, and tend to book a couple of nights at the start of my holiday and then just see where things take me.

I like to befriend the locals and see what they say and recommend. Obviously you have to be very careful, especially as a woman travelling on her own.

But, actually, when people tell me somewhere is dangerous it makes me want to go there even more.

I’ve travelled the world, with Vietnam and Cambodia a couple of the places that really made a massive impression.

In Cambodia, people have been through so much but they are so welcoming and the level of openness is amazing.

There is such a community spirit and although they are struggling, they have such a positive mentality.

The thing that’s quite tough is when you see the number of orphans.

It’s really quite humbling. But it’s a beautiful country and I stayed in a jungle area called Jasmine Valley.

I spend most of my life on the road now for A Place In The Sun and the one place I’ve visited that I’d most want to go back to is Costa Rica.

Puerto Viejo, on the Caribbean side, has the most stunning natural beauty.

You are backing on to the rainforest and you have the beaches and sea in front of you.

The wildlife on show is just amazing. I’ve seen sloths hanging out on the telephone wires, monkeys, amazing tropical birds and butterflies the size of your head.

It’s not touristy at all and everyone has that chirpy Caribbean vibe.

“When they say to you that it’s another day in paradise, it’s hard to argue.”