by Therefore, Londoner has finally given up the idea that “hot” is one of the prerequisites for a nice vacation, as in “Nice and Hot”. In a report by a travel insurance company, insured and Go, it showed that 84 percent of the people believed that their favorite vacation destinations could be unbearable if the temperatures continue to rise. Spain, Turkey and Greece were each named by about a third of the respondents. A fifth of the Londoner believed that even Britain could be too hot for a vacation at home, twice as many as the rest of the country.
It took a while, didn’t it? The equation of a good vacation with a place in the sun has always been almost strange, since the people who live in hot countries use elaborate methods to avoid heat, from the fact that they remain the majority of the day. They are really just crazy dogs and Englishmen who go out in the midday sun … and even the crazy dogs choose shadows.
If you deliberately go in the Mediterranean countries around 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at around 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., you are the likelihood that you are the British (or the Irish), the people who consider the heat to be good and recognize that you should climb and go inside at dawn and stay there until it is certain to venture outside. And if this applies before the temperatures have risen in the past decade, it is now even true.
This is now the time to give up the imagination that somewhere hot is a place that you can strain on and cannot avoid. The words Costa del Sol should be sufficient of a warning. We (or, I can say you) should return to a more Victorian approach during the holidays. Goodbye Sicily … Hello Skegness (“It’s so exciting!” When the railway posters said earlier).
There are a few options. We can simply do the reasonable and go to the northern hemisphere rather than in the Mediterranean, and in fact a fifth of people think about Iceland, Canada or Sweden. That is Rather it likes it. But the problems in these places are that they are usually far more expensive than Greece, Spain et al. But if you can afford a midsummer in Norway, do it. Or north France is not hotter than here – and what can be more beautiful than Normandy?
But how about if you return to the sea to the Victorian treat from away days? Margate was nice and cheap, but that was before it was colonized by Londoner and brought her orange wines and oat milk latters. It’s still good for a day trip; Ditto Brighton and all other places within a few hours after a central London term. And after a day in the sea, it is very funny to return home by the sea after a day, together with the enormous number of other people.
Give me a place where the idea of a nice day is that it doesn’t really rain, and I’m happy
Or if it is culture you are looking for, Winchester is filled with it and there are meadows outside the city for a picnic. A day in Bath has the Roman remains without the Roman climate (Dito st Albaner): the best of all worlds. If you can run to a Bed & Beih breakfast or a hotel (NB, there are many actual hotels in these places, so you do not have to ruin the local economy by going Airbnb), I can imagine nothing better than Northumbria (think of St. Oswald and St. Aidan and Lindis fern), which is amazingly beautiful.
British resorts are booked very much – I remember that the last time I was in Cromer (good for crabs!), There were waiting lists for caravans – but if they got a very early train and return to a late one, it is feasible. Everyone in the possession of a motorhome laughs. May I say that the time is now to suck friends in picturesque parts of the country; A friend in Norfolk suggested a flat exchange for a few days, an attractive idea.
The problem is, of course, that for people with families the six -week school break takes place in July and August, precisely when the weather is most urgent, while in the Balkans and in the Mediterranean the most beautiful seasons are spring and autumn. If I can make a modest proposal, it would take a week off and add them to Easter vacation if you can actually enjoy Sicily, Crete and southern Spain.
In exceptional cases, I was ahead of the herd in all of this before the global warming became a matter. I am washed in the heat; My apartment is on the top of a men’s block, in which I only rise from one most susceptible position to Choc-Ice. If I want to work at all, I have to escape from the heat. And that’s why after a few days in the west of Ireland with friends in the family home in Ireland. I left London with my dress that stuck to my meat before sweat. I got out of the plane in Shannon to determine that it was stimulating and remained beautiful and cloudy for two days. I am now on the east coast that is less cloudy, but is far from hot. Friends accuse me of having brought the rain with them. I tell you that you should be so lucky. It is unaffected in Ireland, but what price does not die from the heat?
Give me a place where the idea of a nice day is that it doesn’t really rain and I’m happy. I am all for the Balkans and the Mediterranean – between September and May. At this time of year I stay at home and take your bucket and spade from a Central London term to Eastbourne or Wells-by-the-Sea. You know that it makes sense.
Melanie McDonagh is a London standard columnist
