Twixtmas campaigner and GREEN director Andy Green said: “Arm yourself with pen and paper and make some time during the Twixtmas break to give yourself a five-day happiness work-out. Expressing your appreciation and thinking about the positive aspects of your future, or even writing affectionate things, have been scientifically proven to work and make you feel better in yourself.”

Day 4 Make a list of your favourite places visited or places you would like to go. Think about why you liked them so much or what attracts you to want to go there.

Some of my favourite places I have already been:

San Francisco – Val D’Isere – Napoli – Segalas – York – Cairo – Jerusalem – Cuba – Siena

I am attracted to these places for a variety of reasons, many of them to do with how different they are to my relatively comfortable life in West Yorkshire. Any of these places I would happily revisit tomorrow, knowing that I would find something new, interesting, challenging or simply wierd without really trying; they all have some sort of ‘buzz’ that’s partly to do with the place (spectacularly beautiful being a key!) and partly the people; they all have a street culture that is still developing in the UK; there is great food in all of them (yes, even Cairo!); they have a deep history and culture that permeates the whole place.

…and I would like to visit:

Australia – Hadrian’s Wall – The Great Wall of China – India

Why would I like to visit them, well these, and others not listed, have a mix of the same attributes as those places I have already been.