overlooked. By contrast, the south coast of Cornwall is for messing about in boats. The sheltered estuaries of the Fal, Fowey and Helford are ideal for launching a canoe, while Falmouth has boat trips galore and the shipshape National Maritime Museum. A short

put on her signature playful catwalk show in clashing primary shades of red and pink, with an art museum theme. Models wore quirky headpieces in the shape of easels with paintbrushes, as well as flamboyant hooped dresses and a full-length tutu. Agatha

high socks. It was also there I discovered the work of Bonnard and Vuillard, who remain inspirational today. I recently took a trip to New York and some lots of their work in the Met. Wow, what an amazing museum!What are your influences? My main

increasingly popular option that can provide positive educational experiences for children, visiting historical attractions, museums and natural environments in the UK. This type of holiday is generally good for the environment, too. You won’t be flying, so you

. The Roald Dahl Museum will also be providing activities. Added extras Try out the Headphone Disco from 11pm–3am in the Big Top while your babies snooze in the quiet background, giggle at the Comedy Club, or chill out in the Healing Gardens with reflexology

of Rajasthan, is known as the Pink City, as the buildings in the old walled city are built in pink sandstone. It was fascinating to hear about the decadent lives of the rajas and their many wives. At the City Palace, we visited the armoury museum where “Welcome

is quite built up – gone are the pockets of scrubland and empty beaches. Even the hills are peppered with villa developments, but the area still has a real charm. Málaga is a fantastic city, with a rambling old quarter, a castle and a Picasso museum

family, and decided the owl must be my nan as she is ‘a wise old bird’!Are the birds in the book real species of bird?No, but I did sketch real birds when researching for the book, particularly some of the birds of paradise in the Natural History Museum

to instil a bit of culture into slightly older children. You can take in the fantastic sandy beach in Germany’s Warnemünde, the zoo and a boat ride in Helsinki to see the bears and snow leopards, and the Vasa Museum in beautiful Stockholm on a Norwegian

form. Next time you are taking your son to the natural history museum for the 76th time and googling what a T-Rex ate for breakfast, or helping your daughter sew her lobster costume for this year’s contemporary school nativity play, who knows, you might