Spend a few nights or a few weeks learning to cook, eating or touring the gardens at Ballymaloe. Rooms at the beautiful manor house are 110 to 190 euros per person and the five-course prix fixe dinners are 70 euros (ballymaloe.ie). The Ballymaloe Cookery School offers everything from afternoon demonstration classes (105 euros) to 5-day intensive classes to a full 12-week certificate course (cookingisfun.ie).