When Steph Anne, 40, landed in Cyprus to stay with a friend in her mountain-top villa near the ancient city of Paphos at the beginning of July, she was readying herself for the trip of a lifetime.
But when her phone started to record temperatures as high as 37C before conking out altogether, her three-week Mediterranean getaway quickly turned into the holiday from hell. “I fly back to London on Thursday and it can’t come soon enough... I’m yearning for the grey skies and drizzle of London,” says Anne, a lawyer from Putney, as she cowers indoors from the unbearable heat.
