Holidays of a lifetime… Zoe Wanamaker: The actress reveals how she went on honeymoon – next to a car park in Wales!
- She recalls her first holiday – to a rented house on the South Coast
- Her first holiday abroad was to the South of France when she was ten
- The actress said her honeymoon in Wales was ‘far from majestic’
Zoe Wanamaker For The Mail On Sunday
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Big day: Zoe and husband Gawn on their wedding day in 1994
Continuing our series featuring the holiday memories of famous people, this week actress Zoe Wanamaker, 68, recalls her life of adventures…
The first holiday I can remember: When I was eight my parents rented a house on Hayling Island on the South Coast. It had an apple tree and I got horribly sick from bingeing on all of the fruit.
First time abroad: We went to the South of France when I was ten and stayed in a tiny house at the top of a hill between Nice and Cannes. I learnt to speak some French, along with mastering how to swim butterfly. We also stayed nearby with some friends of my parents and slept outside in tents. I can remember the smell of pine cones. They were a huge family and were into butterfly-catching, which I thought was terribly cruel.
Top school trip: I remember a holiday where a group of young people from across the country went away with a few adults. We visited Florence and a little island off Naples, where I drank vodka and orange and got drunk for the very first time.
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My honeymoon: My husband Gawn was working on a play in Wales at the time but had a day off, so we married in London and then caught the train back to the Majestic Hotel, where he was staying. On the train we had breakfast in a relatively plush cabin and when we got to the hotel we were given a bottle of champagne. They’d put out balloons, too. But our room was right by the car park. It was far from majestic.
Rolling the dice: Zoe, right, aged three, with her film director father Sam, playing Monopoly with their family in 1953
Best break: Gawn and I stayed at a hotel in the Atlas mountains. It was beautiful but the real excitement was that John Profumo and his wife Valerie Hobson were staying there. She wore a turban and false eyelashes – I thought she looked really exotic.
My nightmare: Before I met Gawn, I went to Venice with my then boyfriend. He had been working in Edinburgh and on the trip I discovered that he had been unfaithful. Luckily, it was only a long weekend but it was still tough and painful. It was over after that.
Zoe appears in The Birthday Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London until April 14.
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