So how much do you let the weather impact your travel plans? That’s what I asked you in two recent posts the weather, part 1: how much does it impact your travel plans & part 2: how much do you let it affect your enjoyment of travel?) and in a recent poll on Cool Travel … Read more about A weather report: the results from my latest poll
Perhaps the issue of how weather impacts your travel experience, providing it’s not of disastrous proportions (epic heatwaves and heavy floods aside) is more a question of attitude than planning? (This is a continuation of this post by the way.) We were at a restaurant the other night at Apollo Bay on the southern coast … Read more about The weather, part 2: how much do you let it affect your enjoyment of travel?
Do you check weather reports before you travel? And if you do and it’s turned especially bad before you’re due to travel, do you change your trip plans? I’m talking really nasty weather. Consistently dreadful, such as the snowfalls in the UK, the heaviest in 18 years, which have severely disrupted flights. Or the heatwave south-eastern … Read more about The weather, part 1: how much does it impact your travel plans?
A couple of weeks ago we were holed up writing in an apartment overlooking the sea at Glenelg beach, Adelaide, South Australia. While the days were warm and balmy, topping 30 degrees celcius, a little higher than the typical heavenly summer temperatures they get here, the evenings were deliciously cool. Cool enough to pop on … Read more about South Australia: from heavenly summer days to the living hell of a heatwave
Last month there was so much rain in Dubai (for three whole days) that the city flooded and life in the metropolis ground to a halt. Whoever could have expected such weather in an Arabian Gulf city? When we first moved to the Emirates ten years ago it had been so dry that the imans … Read more about Sleet in Crete and floods in Dubai