Checking in... Lesley Garrett

Soprano singer

EARLIEST HOLIDAY MEMORY?

STAYING at my great uncle’s tiny chalet at Bridlington Bay — the deal was Mum had to give the outside a new coat of paint whenever we visited!

YORKSHIRE OR LANCASHIRE?

WHAT kind of question is that to ask someone from Doncaster? Yorkshire with a capital Y!

FAVE PART OF YORKSHIRE?

PROBABLY the Dales where I had many happy holidays with my family in my teens.

FIRST FOREIGN TRIP?

I HITCHHIKED at 19 with my boyfriend at the time to Crete, and was just gobsmacked by

Europe. We spent a month there living on about a fiver, which you could do in those days.

HOLIDAY HEAVEN?

STAYING at the holiday cottage we own in the Forest of Grésigne, in

the South of France — one of Europe’s largest oak forests. It’s just heaven on a stick. THEATRICAL DIGS FROM HELL?

SHIVERING away in a freezing attic room in a guest house in Wexford, Ireland, at the start of my career. FAVE FOREIGN HOTEL?

I LOVE skiing and every winter my family and I stay at the family-run Hotel Auenhof in the Austrian Alps. The owners are incredibly hospitable; every time we visit we renew our friendship with them. CAN’T TRAVEL WITHOUT?

MY DOCTOR husband. MOST EMBARRASSING HOLIDAY SELFIE?

I WAS once asked to pose for a selfie after going out to see the Great Barrier Reef in Australia — unfortunately my face was green because I’d just been terribly seasick! WHERE NEXT?

I’D like to return to Wexford to celebrate my 40th year in the music business. Mind you, I won’t be staying in the same house.

DREAM DESTINATION?

INDIA — its unique mix of cultures has always fascinated me.

n Cinderella, starring lesley Garrett as the Fairy Godmother, is at new Wimbledon Theatre until January 5.