{"id":216823,"date":"2025-06-26T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216823\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:54:17","slug":"goodbye-sicily-hello-skegness-why-rising-temperatures-spell-the-end-of-the-hot-foreign-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216823\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Sicily, hello Skegness! Why rising temperatures spell the end of the hot foreign holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem of course is that for people with families, the six week school break happens in July and August, precisely when the weather is most oppressive, whereas in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, the very nicest times of year are spring and autumn. If I may make a modest proposal, it would be to take a week off the summer holiday and add it to the Easter vacation, when you can actually enjoy Sicily, Crete and southern Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The problem of course is that for people with families, the six week school break happens in July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,2406,257,19309,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-216823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-mediterranean","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114751659388213223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}