It’s Too Hot, Mum!!!

By Paul Homewood

The Med is now too hot for summer holidays, says the laughable Daily Telegraph!

According to the Telegraph’s Senior Travel Writer:

Most of us like a bit of sunshine on our holidays, but when does hot become “too hot”? If ambulances are on standby at resorts, aircon-fuelled “climate shelters” are being set up and the elderly are being advised to stay indoors, you could argue that the answer is: now.

A heatwave has hit large swaths of Europe including France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. In Spain, a June temperature record of 46C was set on Saturday afternoon in El Granado, Andalucia, while France has issued a heat warning in 84 of the country’s 96 mainland departments.

As a “heat dome” envelops much of the Continent, the mercury has hit 42C in Seville, with Athens (37C), Rome (38C), Madrid (37C), Bordeaux (39C) and Lisbon (38C) also set to experience exceptionally high temperatures this week. Even Germany is bracing for 40C temperatures by the middle of the week. London, by comparison, is forecast to peak at a balmy 33C.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/34daf742ccd07511

The rest of his article has little to do with travel. Instead he merely regurgitates global warming propaganda, warning that we will all to have to take our holidays in cooler climes in future.

I don’t know why he insists on quoting temperatures in cities, as most tourists go the beach or mountains in summer, where it is much cooler.

He uses the example of Seville, where it is apparently 42C. Seville, along with Cordoba, are the two hottest cities in Europe. The temperature there reached 46.6C thirty years ago in 1995, and temperatures of 40C and more are not unusual.

Same with the other cities he cites:

• 37C in Athens – record 44.8C
• 38C in Rome – record 40.6C
• 37C in Madrid – record 40.7C
• 38C in Lisbon – record 44.0C

He claims that the human body stops functioning optimally when outside temperatures exceed 40C, which makes you wonder how the natives in Spain manage every summer!

And he shows his naivety when he states that “Locals are shutting themselves away in dark houses during the days, with windows and shutters closed”. Surely as a supposed travel expert, he must know that this is something the peoples of these regions have always done.

I can personally testify for this as I saw it all the time on several walking holidays in the Pyrenees many years ago. Villages simply shut up shop for three or four hours around midday, and then reopen later in the afternoon.

Meanwhile holidaymakers ignore these doom merchants and vote with their feet. According to the Guardian, Spain attracted 21.8 million international visitors last summer, a new record. There are so many tourists now that locals have been protesting!

Quite why the Telegraph keeps insulting the intelligence of its readers is beyond me. It clearly believes it knows better than them – hence the continuing presence of the increasingly irrelevant Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on their payroll.