Celebrity traveller

Victoria Yeates

Apart from the engagement ring I brought back from South Africa, I went travelling around India when I was younger and brought back some incredible antique statues of Hindu gods from Thiruvananthapuram, carved out of pieces of granite. They still sit on my mantelpiece.

BEST HOLIDAY READ?

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. It’s a gripping story about women and politics in the early 1960s and was part of a seriously relaxing holiday I spent reading, drinking wine and eating cheese.

HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME ON HOLIDAY?

I’m happy for a few days sitting around reading, making salads and splashing around in a pool but I’m not a person who can just sit on a sunbed. I like to explore.

WHERE WOULD YOU REVISIT?

Roquebrune in the South Of France. It’s a wonderful medieval village you can’t access by car. It is full of the most incredible restaurants but there’s nothing touristy about it.

A lot of artists settled there in the 1920s. It has this untouched pebble beach with a lovely restaurant where you can sip chilled rosé under a fig tree.

WHERE NEXT?

In April I’ve got a week off so we’re visiting my dad, who is moving to Brittany, then we’re going down to the south of France to look at wedding venues in the Garonne region – we feel so relaxed there we’ve decided to get married there.