How to stay safe in this 40C greenhouse, this is going out by staying in in the heatwave.
A day at the museum
And what better way to stay cool than a day at the museum
Where Dubliners (and all of us tbf) flock to public parks in the sunny weather we head for the museums.
And more specifically the National Gallery of Ireland.
Where among the national, international, Classical, Renaissance and Low Countries art the biggest group gathered around a Vermeer.
As you do.
If you’re familiar with Lady Writing A Letter With Her Maid then you might notice something different.
Visitor listening intently at the back to the tour guide.
Now a tip to tailgaters, make sure you’ve got space to stay out of sight.
Difficult, of course, when you’re in the Capuchin Crypt in Rome and your nosey 13-year-old is still trying to learn the rules.
Go for a dip
If you can barge others on the beach out of the way to get to the sea.
We’re grateful again to friends in Ireland for sharing a picture of friends making a pool out of a skip.
Now, it might seem counter-intuitive but you’ll stay cooler in inside swimming baths.
While you’re also more likely not to put sunscreen on when going into the sea and get burnt.
As I found to my cost on a catamaran off Bridgetown, Barbados.
Now few do indoor public baths better than the UNESCO heritage-listed Great Spa Towns of Europe.
And we can thoroughly recommend Czechia and Marianske Lazne.
Though King Edward VII’s bath in Hotel Nove Lazne looks a bit small and tinny.
Instead head for the Roman bath but be sure to remember where you put your gown.
It wouldn’t do to have a wee Japanese woman chasing you around the ornate baths.
Massage your limbs
And lie back and think of… well, there’s been all stops from Barbados through Istanbul to the Maldives.
And all have left me soothed and becalmed though out of lotalty and reality none as magical than at Whitekirk in North Berwick, near Edinburgh.
Where Daddy’s Little Girl is the coolest of them all.
If you can’t stand the heat
Get into the kitchen.
Yes, cooking classes on-site at your hotel can remove you from the steaming heat of the outside.
You’ll be well aired and watered (or wined), learn a new skill.
And maybe even as with Uncle Kenneth and Auntie Ali in the Blue Crab in Tobago become one of the family.
Just stay in bed
And enjoy the best thing you can get for free.
No, not that, you smutty divil, anyway you’ll just end up sweatier than before.
Well, if you can get away then head for the snow, obvs.
We visited the Alpeniglu in Austria’s Skiwelt and while out of season the snows have melted the memories have not.
Now while the polar cap is also taking a hit, hence the heatwaves, there’s still plenty of ice, ice baby.
And in Sweden they claim to have the world’s first ice hotel complete with a night’s stay among ice art.
So, that’s the answer. Going out by staying in the heatwave.
