• My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

    Alan Titchmarsh: My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.
    "Alan Titchmarsh: 'I went white-water rafting in Costa Rica... I'm just thankful I stayed afloat'". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 10, 2016.