Island race
Some 1,580 yachts set sail from the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes at 6.30am today to race around the Isle Of Wight. Best vantage points include Yarmouth, The Needles, St Catherine's Point, Ventnor and Bonchurch, Ryde Pier and Gilkicker Point.

• Details: 01983-296621

Cliveden clues
Follow the clues around the gardens of Cliveden to find the hidden treasure, part of the National Trust's Neptune Coastline Campaign.

• Today, 11am-4pm. Adults free/child £1.50. Cliveden, Taplow, Maidenhead, Bucks (01494-7555620)

Baby boom
The world's longest motion simulator ride and the first 3D show of a baby's life in the womb are among the crowd-pullers at Newcastle's new Life Interactive World.

• Open daily 10am-6pm. £6.95/£4.50, family £19.95. Times Square, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne (0191-243 8210)

Garden steps
Watch the Rambert Dance Company rehearsing around Blickling Hall this week, culminating in a garden performance on Friday.

• Rambert June 11-16, performance 2.30pm-5.30pm. Garden (and performance) entrance only £3.20/£1.85. Hall and gardens open daily 10am-4pm (£6.50/£3.25). Blickling, nr Aylsham, Norfolk (01263-738049)

Shopping adventure
Glasgow's huge new Outdoor Experience is partly landscaped to resemble a Scottish hillside, with 10 outdoor interactive areas where shoppers can test and trial clothes and equipment, including a 20ft ice wall.

• Open daily 8.30am-7pm (Thurs/Fri 8pm, Sun 10am-6pm). Couper St, Townshead, Glasgow (0141-559 5450)

Holocaust exhibit
The new Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum may leave you feeling that civilisation is only skin deep.

• Open daily 10am-6pm, exhibition permanent. £5.50/under-16s free. Lambeth Road, London SE1 (020-7416 5000)

Around Britten
Two young pianists, one of the BBC's New Generation Artists and the Borodin String Quartet join students from the Britten-Pears School at Aldeburgh's 53rd Music Festival.

• Runs until June 25. Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Saxmundham, Suffolk (01728-687110)

Leith festival
A week of arts, music and children's events kicks off on Leith Links, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, with bands, pipe drums, country dancing, ceilidhs and fireworks.

• Various venues until June 16, mostly free. Brochures from local shops, libraries etc