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It’s not just the weather that’s better when you invest in a property in Rhodes

Wish you were here?

When I spoke to my mother in the UK on Sunday she confirmed that it was, “Quite nice today, must be in the 20’s and the sun did come out for a while earlier.”  She put the damper on things however by continuing, “I have put the quilt back on the bed though and I do have the heating on in the evenings …”.  By this time my Greek husband, who was draining his second ice-cold beer whilst lighting the BBQ, and obviously ear-wigging my conversation, was audibly roaring with laughter in the background!

 Alastair Jamieson wrote an amusing article recently in The Telegraph, stating that Asda saw a 65% rise in sales of oxtail soup and a drop of two thirds in sales of sunscreen in July!  In the timesonline.co.uk, article writer Roland White says that a woman who lives in his village was heard to bitterly complain, “We normally go to Greece every year, but I thought I’d have a holiday at home this time.  I shan’t be making that mistake again.”  Another UK website issues its top ten tips for a wet wedding – apparently it should all be about your love for each other and anyway, you can always buy a pair of bridal wellies …

 And the poor UK meteorologists are getting the blame because they, apparently, said that it was going to be a “good” summer.  Funnily enough, the meteorologists on our TV go on holiday in August – that must say something about the predictability of the summer weather in Greece.  I have to confess that I miss them when they’re gone.  I still watch the recorded TV forecast with trepidation (something to do with being British I suppose).  I just like to check that the temperature will not be above 35 degrees and that there will be a nice northerly wind blowing, which, of course, there usually is in Rhodes.

 But I mean, really, what did you expect?  When was the last time that Wimbledon finals weren’t washed out in July or that you didn’t see the Prime Minister emerging from No. 10 without his raincoat in August?  The last “good summer” I can remember in the UK was 1976 when it was so hot for three months that everyone was queuing in the streets for a bucket of water and traipsing across fields and empty dykes with divining rods.  I missed that year too actually, I was in Canada and the US where they were so concerned about the poor overwhelmed Brits they were sending food parcels home (I am serious).

 Well, yes, it is all right for us to laugh, we live in Rhodes.

 Life in Rhodes is good.

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