Corsica was my best honeymoon ever!
HOLIDAYS OF A LIFETIME NIGEL PLANER
CONTINUING our series featuring the holiday memories of famous people, this week actor NIGEL PLANER, 65, recalls his lifetime of adventures…
My first holiday: We went to Watergate Bay near Newquay in Cornwall. Dad joined us for the weekends – he had to work so hard in those days. We tried surfing on the long beach, and went to Clovelly, the little cobble-stone village. We drove all the way to Cornwall in Mum’s Ford Popular, and it took hours. Frank Ifield’s I Remember You was top of the Hit Parade, so that means it must have been 1962. I was nine.
First trip abroad: A school trip to Brussels, to see the Atomium building built in 1958. Apart from that, I can’t remember much of this trip except it rained the whole time. My second school trip was more like it! We went on a cruise to Tangier and Lisbon and Madeira. I remember the excitement of Tangier and seeing a different culture with camels, pointy slippers, fez hats and strange music. I loved it. My honeymoon: Which one? I have a chequered career in the marriage department. But the latest, and definitively last, was in Corsica – we had a gorgeous time and ate a lot of fish.
My best holiday ever: My favourite was going on a Pandaw river cruise in Asia. They treat you so well, and you get to visit out-of-the-way places. Another was looking for freshwater dolphins in Cambodia.
Worst holiday: A week in the Canaries when I got food poisoning.
My favourite place: Until recently, I would have said India, but now I’m opening up to new possibilities. My next trip is Japan, where I have never been. I am reading up like mad, and preparing to have my mind blown.