My ideal travelling companion is either my wife or someone who makes me laugh all the time, like my good friend Brian Gilbert, who is a film director. He can drive me to hysterics without saying anything at all because he finds everything funny and he has the most exceptionally wonderful basso profundo guffaw!

Even though I go to Barbados at least twice a year now, I also like visiting cities.

I feel as if I spent the first 40 years of my life wandering around with my eyes closed, so I would like to revisit the cities that I went to during that time. I love Sydney above all other cities . . . principally for the lifestyle and the people. As for cuisine, I love the way you can eat simply but indulgently in Tuscany. I went there to write a script with Griff Rhys Jones and we ate somewhere different every single day.

Whenever I arrive anywhere new the first thing I make sure I do is change clothes within a minute of arriving and then fall asleep in them; or, if I'm in Barbados, I take them all off and then go outside and fall asleep!

I definitely prefer arriving to travelling.

I used to go back and forth to LA about 10 times a year, which I eventually got used to, but generally I don't relish travelling. I do like trains though, particularly the speed and the fact that you can get up and walk around to look out at the scenery.

My favourite walk in the world? From the beach to the house and back to the beach again in Barbadosf I'll probably end up going back to Barbados in December.