Smithy, you are also just a hop, skip and a jump from the North Pole as well as Scotland! I will say that Norway in August is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, specifically the fjords all the way to North Cape looking at the Arctic Sea.
Back on track: I understand there is now a train between Edinburgh and Galashiels that runs through the Scottish Borders that is an experience in and of itself. If I were visiting the Aero factory, I doubt that I could get by with less than half a day, excluding travel.
Off topic:
We are lucky here Richard, it's a very pretty part of the world. And if you like doing outdoorsy stuff (like I do) you're spoiled for choice with, depending on the season, fishing, sailing, skiing, hunting, hiking, etc, etc. We're not regretting the decision to bring the kids back over here. Makes a nice change from continually saying to them, "Don't do that dear, there's probably snakes/spiders"
Thanks to everyone for the tips on visiting Aero and surrounds, it's not going to happen this year for us (wife has already organised the summer hols) but I'd like to do this next year. My mother-in-law's husband and I fly fish and we've been talking about taking a trip to Scotland for a spot of salmon fishing. Bit of fly fishing and getting a new Aero sounds like a damn nice holiday. Well maybe a couple of distillery tours as well to round things off!