This island hosts an annual potato festival where chefs compete to make the best spud sandwich

Sarah Rodrigues holidays on the world's first carbon-neutral island, Denmark's idyllic Samsø

Samsø harbour, a port of arrival for tourists.

A CARVED statue of a mermaid stands at the entrance to Samsø Labyrinten, the Guinness World Record-certified world’s largest maze. She has, I’m told, the island’s most fondled breasts. She’s also the real deal. 

As the Labyrinten’s manager proudly reminds me, Hans Christian Andersens’ ‘The Little Mermaid’ is Danish, not Disney.