I have had many fantastic holidays, to pick out the best is not easy.

The worst place I have ever visited is Paris, I hate the place and I was just counting the days to when I could go home again.

I have enjoyed many holidays in Iceland (before it became touristy like it is now) and fun internal flights on Fokker 27s and 50s into very remote airports.

I enjoyed visiting Finland and touring round on a Finnrail pass (based in Helsinki we travelled to places such as Turku, Tampere and Joensuu – all very different to anywhere I’d been before).

LA has been fun, hot and hectic. Hawaii was just hot. New Zealand was beautiful and I wish I could have seen more, likewise Australia.

Some of my most enjoyable holidays have been in Belgium – had several trips there each year since 2000 (with the exception of our holiday last year which was ruined by the breaking down of a badly-designed French train which seemed to have a problem operating in snow). Instead of doing the usual thing which Brit tourists do (ie visiting Brussels, Brugge, Gent and Antwerp and occasionally Ieper then mistakenly believing they’ve seen the whole of Belgium) we buy a Rail Pass and catch the train to wherever takes our fancy (and many places which the average Brit tourist either completely overlooks or has never even heard of). To date in Belgium we have visited: Brussels, Brugge, Gent, Antwerp, Oostende, Ieper, Poperinge, Mons, Veurne, Lier, Eupen, Spa, Liege, Oudenaarde, Kortrijk, Tournai, Knokke, Blankenberge, De Panne, De Haan, Genval, Hasselt, Tongeren, Mechelen, Kortenberg, Dinant, Namur, Leuven, Damme and Zeebrugge. Those are what I call fun holidays – the best beer in the world and food which is hard to beat in places where you see very few other tourists and certainly won’t bump into folk you know.