YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE

A POTTERY HOLIDAY

IMAGINE arranging a beautiful bouquet in a vase that you made yourself . . . then make it a reality on one of these pottery retreats. CERAMICS IN COPENHAGEN DANISH studio Tortus Copenhagen specialises in smooth stoneware and will teach you to create it.

INSIDER TIP: Visit the Danish Design Museum for its 20th-century design and crafts.

DETAILS: Workshops (September 4-9) £800, tortus-copenhagen.com. Hotel Alexandra, £232 a night,

hotelalexandra.dk. Flights to Copenhagen from £76 return in September, britishairways.com. CRAFTS IN CORK AT KINSALE Pottery and Arts Centre in Cork, you’ll learn to coil, slab and throw pots, and sculpt in clay.

INSIDER TIP: If it all goes wrong, you can bring something home from their gallery.

DETAILS: A course (June 30-July 3) costs £280, kinsaleceramics.com. Rooms at Blindgate House from £86 for a double, blindgatehouse.

com. Flights from £111 return, aerlingus.com. POTTING IN PORTUGAL STAY in one of the restored 19th-century cottages at Cerro da Fontinha in Portugal’s Alentejo region and sign up for a pottery class run by a local artist (price on application).

INSIDER TIP: Take inspiration from the scenery in the Parque Natural da Costa Vicentina.

DETAILS: Rooms at Cerro da Fontinha from £147, dorisanddicky.

com. Flights to Faro from around £90 return in June, easyjet.com. JENNY COAD