Guernsey

With a refreshing take on life – from its blue phones and pillar boxes to refusal to join the EU. Its 65,000 inhabitants go out of their way to make you feel at home, and if you find some of the 2% who still speak it, they’ll welcome you in fluent Guernesiais. As well as being charming and picturesque, it’s sunny, too, with an average of 250 hours of sunshine in July alone.