seaside question

[Poppy]

I've lost touch with a friend who used to talk about fantastic seaside holidays she enjoyed in Scotland. It must have been somewhere on the West Coast as she used to talk about how warm it was (gulf stream I presume). Where could this have been?

We really want a nice traditional seaside holiday (hopefully with simple accomodation as close to the sea as possible) any ideas?
Thanks, Poppy x

[nickmo]

Too many to choose - depends where you want to go or how far up the coast ; Dumfries & Galloway and the Solway Firth is a beautiful and little visited area, Ayrshire has 'traditional' towns like Largs, get to the islands - Arran is Scotland in miniature, or try Bute; Argyyl has the Cowal Peninsular, Tarbert, Crinan, Oban and the islands, Mull, Islay;

Further up the coast, get to Skye and the Kyles, Plockton, Applecross, Sheildaig . . .

Have a browse through the http://www.visitscotland.com/ site and pick an area to see the attractions / towns etc. Depends also on how you want to travel - stay in one place or move about a bit to take in the whole area...loads of options for accommodation too.

[KARL]

It would have been somewhere where it is shallow far out from top water line so that it was a long distance of essentially dry land at low tide. When the tide comes back in in calm conditions in early to mid afternoon, say, the water warms up on the exposed beach that the sun has heated up and it genuinely can feel amazingly warm. Many of the places already mentioned could produce this effect. The natural sea temperatures are not warm, however - nowhere around Britain is at any time of the year except where/when this phenomenon manifests itself.