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Planning A Staycation: Where To Go For Good Weather In The UK
The weather isn’t the
only reason to holiday outside the UK, but it must be pretty high up the list.
Famed for its unpredictability, British summertime is quite capable of delivering a sudden cool snap or pouring rain – turning what should have been a gentle camping trip or relaxing hiking holiday into some kind of survival test.
But while nowhere can
promise pleasant British weather, you can at least rig the dice a little by noting down the places
Taking advantage of warm weather in Margate
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The hysteria with which British people greet the merest hint of bright, warm weather is a natural response to its rarity and unreliability. In tropical countries, sunny mornings are as exciting as a bowl of cornflakes; you can take them or leave them. On this soggy, northern, jet-stream-dependent archipelago, a truly sunlit, sultry morning is so unwonted that it makes people think seriously about skipping work, stripping off, planning a picnic, and jumping in the nearest bit of (usually chilly) water, sea or fresh, clean or otherwise.
Heat gets us overexcited. People still talk about the summer of 1976 as if it were a meteorological apocalypse. I was there. It was hot, yes, but the Lancashire Plain, at least, was no Death Valley.
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