Why? Before I went, I thought it was a holiday village. Then my friend went to technical college there, so then it became a place with a technical college. It is the most miserable place in Scotland. I'm Scottish, so misery is part of my character. There's something reassuring about misery.

When we were kids, six of us would go on what we'd laughably call a holiday. Four kids and my parents would share a four-berth caravan, and, I tell you, we're all big people. It was positioned in front of a railway track, which you had to cross to get to the sea.

The two weeks we went there would always be the two weeks it was raining. It was like something out of Lord of the Rings: the sky would go all black . . . So we'd all play Lexicon - the cheap version of Scrabble. We fought, too. I lost my heart there because I know I'd never want to go back.

What's the best thing? Being outside the caravan.

Advice? Take an anorak, Scottish Monopoly and a lot of alcohol to numb the pain of spending two weeks in a wee caravan on the east coast of Scotland.

How do you get there? Scot Airways (0870 6060707) flies from London City Airport to Dundee from £101 return. Frequent rail services to Arbroath. National rail enquiries: 0345 484950. Coach enquiries: 08705 808080.

• Glaswegian comedian Lynn Ferguson was the voice for the chicken Mac in Chicken Run and the sex-crazed Aussie sculptress in the movie Honest. She also starred at the Edinburgh Festival in Kindling at the Gilded Balloon Theatre.