Wiped out – by a bowl of Brazilian shellfish
CONTINUING our series featuring holiday memories of famous people, this week singer
RICK ASTLEY, 52, recalls his lifetime of adventures...
My first holiday:
Going to Cornwall when I was three. My parents took us to a fishing village called Polperro on the coast. It had a lovely harbour and a beach where we spent hours building sandcastles and swimming in the crystalclear sea. The holiday really sticks in my mind because my mum and dad divorced soon after and it was the last family holiday we went on.
First time abroad:
I was 13 and I went on a ski trip to Italy with school. We stayed in a small resort in the Dolomites. I learned to ski there. I wouldn’t say I was good but I didn’t break anything. I didn’t go skiing again until I was 20 and from then on I have skied all over the world.
My honeymoon:
I didn’t really have one as I got married [to Danish wife Lene] on a whim in 2013. We had been engaged for 15 years but decided to tie the knot and, two weeks later, married at a registry office in London, and spent the night at a nearby hotel.
Best holiday:
When my daughter Emilie (who is now 26 ) was growing up, we used to hire a villa with another family in Sardinia. It was in a village called Villasimius on the south-east of the island and there was nothing fancy about it. The kids would play on the beach, have an ice cream at the end of the day and a bowl of pasta in the evening.
And the worst:
I had a shocking stomach bug when I went to Sao Paulo in Brazil on tour six years ago. I decided to take a few days holiday and I went to this restaurant that served the most amazing seafood, but I got unlucky and came down with a bout of food poisoning from the shellfish. I was so ill that I didn’t get out of bed for two days.
My dream destination is:
Paraggi next to Portofino on the Italian Riviera. Lene and I have been there several times and I want to go again on our delayed honeymoon next year. Rick Astley’s latest album, Beautiful Life, is out now.