South of the Midlands but to the West you've got South Wales. The Gower peninsula has beautiful scenery and good beaches. Across the Severn there's Somerset - Weston-Super-Mare - where you can (or you could when I was last there) take your car on the beach like at Southport.
Devon is very nice, Exeter is an attractive town and there are some lovely seaside places. Cornwall is the IN place, these days, and it is lovely. I last went to Bournmouth about 20 years ago and enjoyed it immensely. What all these places have is warmer weather, generally, than we get in the North West.
Nice coastline all the way round Kent and Sussex and then into East Anglia you've got good beaches and nice flat countryside.
There's loads to see. Stick a pin in the map and go for it.
