Deepika Padukone, model

Ever since I entered modelling, I’ve had to do quite a bit of travelling, and there are some really beautiful places I’ve been to. But the sad part is when you are on work, it just doesn’t feel like a holiday. You never get the time to look around, get a feel of the place or shop to your heart’s content. That’s why I don’t count all the places I travel to for work as real holidays.

The only real holidays I’ve had since becoming a model are when I went to the French Riviera and Maldives, where I went with my family last year. Maldives was fabulous ? the waters are unbelievably green, the culture is so laidback, and the best part was I had all the time in the world to enjoy it all.

As for the Riviera, what can one say about it that hasn’t been said a million times before? I’ve been to Cannes and Nice and they were both out of this world. I have a penchant for sea holidays ? even as a kid, our family used to vacation in Goa every year and those form some of my favourite childhood memories.