Holidays are great, aren’t they? Sun drenched days spent completely supine, inert apart from intermittently raising a straw to your parched lips to slurp the dregs of a cocktail, before returning again to a semi-vegetative state. Only, the thing is, after two years of house arrest, where a trip to Lidl provided a week’s hit of adrenaline, do we really want to spend more time doing nothing?
If the thought of hours reclined in a deckchair gently sweating from every pore, occasionally rereading the same sentence from your Costa beach read fills you with dread, then fear not! I give thee: hobby holidays. These are ostensibly when you go away to do stuff, perfect for anyone with itchy feet or secret aspirations to be the next James Joyce, but in desperate need of breakfast in bed. Here are some of the best retreats and holidays for art lovers, fitness enthusiasts, budding photographers and more in the UK and Europe.
