If you’re planning on tripping around Ireland, then grab your beanie, your raincoat and your map and listen closely, here’s how to do it right.

If you have the pocket money and the time, rent yourself a car and tent, or better yet a campervan, and drive the magical Wild Atlantic Way.

It’s the Emerald Isles latest creation for the adventurous tourist and local alike. The W.A.W is the world’s longest defined coastal route, stretching for 1500 miles.

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Load your bikes onto the back, the boards on top. Sail, surf and scramble your way along the coast. Have picnics by day and pub grub and pints by night.

Here’s a list of the very best places to stop along the route… winding roads, traffic-jams behind sheep and tractors, rolling moors and lashing rain… this will be one hell of a trip!