Where do you go for the craic  - Ireland.
Ireland is mostly known for its lush green landscape, friendly people (even if you can't understand half of what they're saying) and its Guinness. Perhaps I should add its Father Ted-like priests and an abundance of nuns second to Vatican City (it is said that if there is a nun in your family, it will bring good luck).

For Pete and I, Southern Ireland was like being in New Zealand and more especially, as we drove from Rosslare to Cork, the West Coast. We drove from home in Milton Keynes to Fishguard in Wales, caught the Stena ferry to Rosslare and had a perfect sailing across the Irish Sea, which took just over 3 hours. We drove onto the ferry at one end and drove off at the other and nobody asked to see our passports or took the slightest bit of interest in who we were or what we were doing.