25 October 2007
Professor Stephen Hawking visited Corsica this year on his first ever family holiday.
The theoretical physicist's daughter, Lucy, made the revelation in an interview with the Cambridge Evening Times.
She was talking about a book she has written collaboratively with her father.
"My son and I went on holiday to Corsica with my dad this summer, which is the first time we've taken my dad on a real family holiday," she revealed.
Corsica was recently named 'an autumn hotspot' by the Telegraph.
The Mediterranean island has the sunshine record for France, with an impressive 2,793 hours per year and enjoys temperatures of 22 degrees Celsius right through October.
This makes it the ideal getaway location as the nights draw in and the sun becomes a faint memory in the UK.
Autumn is also a nice time to visit because outside of the busy summer season, with Italian and French pupils back at school, there is profound peace to complement the year-round charms of the island.
