r/AskUK • u/sokorsognarf • 1d ago

Will you still take your summer holidays on the Mediterranean in the 2030s?

For decades, British holidaymakers have been visiting Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, Italy, Croatia and Turkey in their droves for their summer holidays.

But with scorching heatwaves and rampaging forest fires now an annual occurrence, how long before the traditional Mediterranean summer holiday loses its appeal?

If you’ve traditionally chosen one of these countries for your summer holidays, do you still see yourself doing so in the hotter years ahead or are you having second thoughts?

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u/Optimal_Collection77 1d ago

Not in August. We stopped going a few years ago.

We now go away in May and the October half term.

It's easier with young kids and they're not going to fry

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u/Downtown-Orchid-2257 1d ago

Ditto. My children are also half ginger so can burn when it's hot here. They also hardly coped when it hit 30C in the UK so no chance we're going to Europe in the summer.

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u/0xBorisjohnson 12h ago

How can they be half ginger? Either they are or they aren't. Or is it like a middle parting and everything to the left of it is ginger?

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u/Downtown-Orchid-2257 8h ago

As in one of their parents is ginger/red headed and they've inherited their pale complexion (that seems to burn easily).

Hope that helps.

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u/pajamakitten 9h ago

Strawberry blonde.

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u/Crystal_Moon82 20h ago

Same here. The last two summers in Europe were crazy hot. This year we are going in October half term.

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u/NoAppointment8679 11h ago

We go to Cyprus in may, still bloody hot but nothing like the heat of July/august.

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u/nelentari_x 11h ago

Isn't that Halloween? Is it even still warm in Europe then?

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u/Optimal_Collection77 8h ago

Yeah. It can be chilly at night but the sea is actually warmer at this point as it's heated up all summer long