Who needs Somerset?! Just came back from a trip to see the new Hauser and Wirth gallery/restaurant/gardens on the Isla Del Rei in Mahon, Menorca. Fantastic, beautifully done, understated and all rather picturesque. Menorca is all those things too, but the island proved to be an oasis of calm on a rather crazy ‘Fiesta’ bank holiday in the Balearics! This gallery and garden promises to be even more interesting as the project is finished and ‘grows in’. Take your chance now and go see it!

The island was home to a military hospital (it even cared for soldiers of the Spanish Armada), and the buildings have been tastefully converted in to the art galleries. Mark Bradford was the artist displayed there for this first exhibition, and the grounds have been planted by the most famous garden designer in the world, Piet Oudolf