{"id":464703,"date":"2026-05-02T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:10:13","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464703\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was over 40C, which is too hot to bear\u2019 \u2013 more Irish families want to beat extreme heat on holidays, but can \u2018coolcations\u2019 really work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From Iceland in July and the Canaries in March, families who have been on coolcations share their thoughts\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michelle White and Family outside the Kennedy Space Centre\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ff41f480-72e5-4d93-b7d2-5d41c86f399a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michelle White and Family outside the Kennedy Space Centre<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cMummy, it\u2019s soooooo hot, I think I\u2019m dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That was the common, if a little over-dramatic, complaint from my two young children towards the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/travel\/europe\/it-felt-as-though-we-had-toured-the-world-without-leaving-lisbon-a-fun-family-break-in-the-portuguese-capital\/a618542556.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our summer holiday in Lisbon<\/a> last year, where temperatures started to rise into the mid-30s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Iceland in July and the Canaries in March, families who have been on coolcations share their thoughts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,23,12,15,16,5,147476,152020,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-464703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-shp","tag-signature-human-interest","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}