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With summer vacation fast approaching, many people are planning to head out into the sun. But with temperatures well above forty degrees, southern Europe is no longer what it used to be. This is difficult for many vacationers around the Mediterranean Sea. And for the people who live there. Temperatures of nearly 50 degrees are approaching in Sicily.
“It’s very hot, yes,” Margie said. “Especially when there is little wind.” The resident of Tilburg is on vacation on the Greek island of Kos for eighteen days. “We still have a week left. We’ve been coming here for thirty years, precisely because of the hot weather. So you won’t hear us complaining at all. You know that when you come here. And if it’s a little windy , you don’t like that.”
They also have their own ways of dealing with heat. Like riding a bike to the beach, “it’s doable”, or lying on the beach under an umbrella. “My daughter went with her friend – who is here for the first time – to a mountain village. Listen, it’s really difficult, I’m not really a ‘doer’ anymore. I wouldn’t recommend seeing excavations at these temperatures. Certainly not between noon and four o’clock in the afternoon.”
“It’s like an oven when you leave your house.”
Paul also sweats in Greece. He is not on vacation there, but lives there. On the beautiful island of Santorini. “For thirteen years. We moved here because of my Greek wife.” He runs a souvenir wholesaler there. “It’s incredibly hot here,” says Mill’s contractor. “Move a finger and you start sweating. The Greeks are also indoors in the afternoon, so they don’t get exhausted. They work in the morning and in the evening. The situation is worse between one and four o’clock. afternoon. The sun is shining really bright here.”
This is also his motto: “Stay inside with the shutters on the windows. Especially when the sun shines on it. The fan is on all day. It’s like an oven when you leave your house. Do you know that if you want to take a shower here, you must first fill a bucket with water and throw it away. This water is boiling because of the heat. Only after this bucket do you get water. colder water.
“We are adjusting to the pace here.”
Mieke Spijkerman traveled from Best to the Spanish Empuriabrava. The temperature there also rises to a great height. “But we adapt to the rhythm here,” she said. “Saturday and Sunday it will be 34 to 38 degrees here. There is also a lot of wind, force 6. But it’s hot, such a dry wind. So we’re going slowly. We go to the sea a lot and we drink a lot, we want to do something, we leave early. go with the flowsay.”
When booking her vacation, she didn’t find the temperature an obstacle. “We knew it would be hot here, but we really like this area. The people here are very relaxed, very friendly. That’s why we go there more often. We have fun and we don’t care about the weather. We let’s adapt it on.”
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