Two Telling comments? The Answer Perhaps?

[frank_a]

We're not going to stop going on holiday, but future holidays will include sun and beaches. My wife is much happier with this plan...

Frank

[The Q]

VScotland can give you the Beaches, and the sun but not necessarily any heat in it!

I must admit I've not Gone anywhere on holiday since 1970, it's always been to visit relatives or somewhere sailing which is so much part of my life that although I enjoy it doesn't seem like a holiday. ( before any one thinks I'm swanning around the Caribbean on yacht, I take a week off each year for my local dinghy / keelboat sailing club regatta )
Still back to Scotland in May to pick up my parents they coming down here for a month (they not seen me in as kilt so that will be a surprise!).

[ThistleDown]

We're not going to stop going on holiday, but future holidays will include sun and beaches. My wife is much happier with this plan...

Frank

If your wife is happier in warmer climes, you will be too, Frank. Don't give up on Scotland as a wonderful place to visit, though. It has superb scenery; an ancient history on view; a vibrant, contemporary culture drawn from the best of all the world; and warm folk to welcome you. There are a few negatives: the weather can be even more miserable than New York (but not much, so listen to your wife if what she wants is sunny beaches all year 'round), the pesky midges of the West more complained about by us than by visitors, and -- perhaps the most important for many New World guests-- we live in the 21st Century.

Wander freely through our cities, into our glens, our villages and our townships, over our moors and our mountains, stumble among the stones of our beaches and slop through our marshes. Nowhere on earth is better than this. Nowhere.