So, Londoners have at last abandoned the notion that “hot” is one of the prerequisites for a nice holiday, as in “nice and hot”. A report from a travel insurance company, Insure and Go, found that 84 per cent of people thought that their favourite holiday destinations might be unbearable if temperatures continue to rise; Spain, Turkey and Greece were each named by about a third of respondents. A fifth of Londoners thought that even the UK might be too hot for a holiday at home, twice as many as the rest of the country.
It’s taken you a while, hasn’t it? The equation of a good holiday with a Place in the Sun has always been downright odd, given that the people who live in hot countries adopt elaborate methods of avoiding the heat, from actually taking to the hills for the season to staying indoors for most of the day. It really is only mad dogs and Englishmen who go out in the midday sun…and even the mad dogs opt for shade.
