Should I take the wife along? etc etc
Seriously, the low cost airlines do good deals, the pound (not the euro) makes it perhaps the best deal in Europe as things stand, the Eliott hotel in Governor's Parade is splendid, and there are oodles of the old bars that remain (with their marvellously unhealthy breakfasts), sitting easily with the excellent new restaurants ranged alongside their new waterfronts. Bril. And Spain is still nearby. Sadly, my attempts to have a drink in the Front Mess have been thwarted by officialdom - but one has to accept that old-fartysm prevails these days!