'Cheerio's and string': Aussie actress Isla Fisher's unusual plane parenting hack
Aussie film star Isla Fisher has become a seasoned traveller.
And the Wedding Crashers star never flies without one luxury.
"I always travel in a tracksuit and I always wear these really yummy cashmere socks that I was given as a gift one Christmas, and shoes that slip on and off," she tells 9Travel.
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Isla Fisher travels the world but hasn't found anywhere better than Perth, WA. Getty
Isla appears in Air New Zealand's new ad campaign.
And the mother-of-three has a few hacks she has used to keep her children entertained on long flights.
As well as bringing plenty of snacks, she has more unusual ideas.
"When I had teeny tiny, under the age of two or three, children, I used to bring Cheerio's, which are a type of cereal with a hole in the middle, and string, and we would just make sort of thread Cheerio's onto string, just for something to do," she tells 9Travel.
"And I would time the flight, naps wise, with their own schedule."
Isla Fisher appears in a new Air New Zealand advert. Supplied
Now they're older there's always something she likes to check before letting them loose with the in flight entertainment, she said.
"Best to do a bit of research and recon before you get on, because some of them that they say are PG 13 can have images or themes or even what dialogue that's really inappropriate," she said,
"You don't realise until you land, then suddenly your kids are having nightmares from something that looked really harmless on the plane."
And Isla might travel the world for work, but there's only one place she wants to be.
Isla, who lives in the UK, says Perth in Western Australia where she grew up, remains her favourite place.
Eagle Bay near Dunsborough in Margaret River in particular is Isla Fisher's her top spot to go. Getty Images/iStockphoto
"There's just nothing like being in Perth," she tells 9Travel.
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"It's just so remote, so beautiful, and you can find beaches that there's just no one for miles and miles, and it's just very special for me."
Eagle Bay near Dunsborough in Margaret River in particular is her top spot to go.
"The ocean is just so pure and you've got this incredible nature you just got beautiful wildlife and pink cockatoos and fast like fun lizards and just so untamed," she says.
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