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Jeremy Clarkson has championed an "achingly beautiful" fishing village as an ideal destination for a UK-based holiday, as overseas trips become increasingly costly amid the US and Israel's conflict with Iran.

Writing in his column for The Sunday Times about the short break, Jeremy offered reassurance to worried holidaymakers: "Don't worry though because I have a solution. Last week, I went to Wales for a couple of days and I'm talking about real Wales."

The former Top Gear presenter continued by saying that his Welsh trip "felt delightfully foreign", and he was sufficiently impressed to place it alongside his other cherished UK destinations - north Devon and Yorkshire.

He explained: "We don't have colourful hedgerows in England and we don't have smooth, deserted roads that dip into pretty valleys before rearing onto the next moorland pass.

"I rarely say that anywhere in the UK is better than north Devon, but this is. It's nearly as good as Yorkshire," reports Wales Online.

Jeremy then sang the praises of an evening he spent in Aberaeron, a harbour town situated in Ceredigion, offering picturesque views across Cardigan Bay.

Describing the town, the star said: "Every one of the terraced cottages around the harbour is a different colour. There was a trendy-looking shop selling honey ice cream and an old Citroën van where you could get Hackney-style hipster street food.

"It was achingly beautiful and it was full of Enid Blyton kids going fishing and eating chips out of newspaper." Jeremy even claimed his experience at the coastal town's lavish Harbourmaster hotel surpassed his recent visit to the Four Seasons in Miami, Florida, which he admitted was "very good, but this is better".

The hotel also earned Jeremy's seal of approval by stocking drinks from Hawkstone Brewery, in which the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? presenter holds a considerable stake.

The Clarkson's Farm star proclaimed: "This is the best hotel ... in the world. The staff were fantastic, the view was pretty, they sold Hawkstone, and for dinner, I had deep fried cockles followed by sea trout."

Following dinner, he took a stroll along the sea wall and soaked up the sunset, revealing that while the temperature was considerably cooler, the scenery was on a par with that of the Caribbean.

Jeremy's top-rated hotel occupies a prime spot in Aberaeron, with its website promising guests "a comfortable seaside stay with a modern maritime theme, original Melin Tregwynt fabrics throughout and lovely views of Cardigan Bay".