‘It was over 40C, which is too hot to bear’ – more Irish families want to beat extreme heat on holidays, but can ‘coolcations’ really work?

From Iceland in July and the Canaries in March, families who have been on coolcations share their thoughts

Michelle White and Family outside the Kennedy Space Centre

“Mummy, it’s soooooo hot, I think I’m dying.”

That was the common, if a little over-dramatic, complaint from my two young children towards the end of our summer holiday in Lisbon last year, where temperatures started to rise into the mid-30s.