The British isles seem to be made of rocks as gloomy as their weather. Luckily you guys get so much green to make up for it.

Limestone over here is golden white to pinkish golden white (I think it's cause by dissolved iron particles in the stone, all the fancy buildings are faced in it). And everything is bathed in the soft Mediterranean sunlight. Of course by the end of summer everything is coated in a thick layer of dust, but nowhere is perfect I suppose.