[ He might be, but he was also deliberately avoiding hard questions, or at least ones he considered overly loaded. He was throwing out simple ones, ones which didn't have too deep or too serious a meaning. And he smiles at the unromantic thing, giving her a guilty smirk. That said...

Well, that was easy. ]

Beach, a million times a beach! After all, while the sand isn't great for leather or sex, it's great for romanticism.