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It's humidity and temperature that's the problem. Somewhere dry and hot is bearable.Always found Greek islands bearable, now in Kent it is ****ing horrible, sweaty and not sleeping.

 

When it's hot and dry you can at least stay still or find shade to alleviate some of the suffering. When it's hot and humid, it just makes you suffocate.

 

One of the most surprising places for humidity is New York, I lived in Brooklyn for for a while and people there told me that it gets hot in summer. I remember thinking 'London gets hot in summer, no biggy'. But New York suffers from high humidity. In the City it is ****ing unbearable because it is so built up and the concrete seems to radiate heat. Just out on the coast near Rockaway there are hurricane warning systems and mandatory evacuation areas, so it's an indication of the tropical storms that travel up the coast from Florida and the Bahamas.

 

Thank god for Air Con.

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In 1999 I was working between NYC and the U.K.

In February I was stood outside of Madison Square Gardens waiting for a taxi and preparing to die in the coldest snow storm I'd ever experienced.

5 months later in July and it was hot as hell, people were bathing in the fountains.

Their climate is ****ed up.

 

Never go to the Middle East in summer. The heat is intolerable and apart from that there's nobody there. They've all ****ed off!...

 

Lived there for 2 yrs. The humidity in summer really ****s you...

 

The strangest thing about NYC is that you can get a train to a place called Tarrytown.

As we all know, anywhere called Tarrytown must be fictional.

 

Where I live you get " Chinook winds " and it can be 15 degrees Celsius on a winters day and an hour later it can be a minus 15 Celsius when the Chinook winds stop .

 

We'd come back here for the summer. I have a pal who goes to Dubai on holiday in AUGUST! Nutter.

He grew up in Saudi but his kids didn't!

 

In Rochester there is an area called Troytown. Never seen Noddy though.

 

The thing that got me about New York was taking the subway out to Coney Island and passing places called Avenue X and Avenue Y. Serious lack of creativity

 

I've got cousins who live in snowbound Canada. The winter pictures they send are mental.

 

About as creative as 1st Avenue, 2nd Ave, etc.

It's the grid system of Manhattan, especially.

 

The Rocky Mountains in winter are magnificent , I live in the foothills and the Chinook winds come through the mountains ,at times, 100 miles an hour( a normal Chinook is about 100 kilometres an hour ) ...and try roofing in it and put a warranty on the roof .

 

Yep, I suppose at least in Manhattan there's generally a another named street that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc runs along. Also there are loads of famous waymarkers to orientate yourself with. Some of the places I've been to in the states, there is no hope of finding where you are. Oxnard between LA and Ventura is one big flat town based on the US grid system and everywhere looks the ****ing same.

 

I went to Egypt once in August (I didn't book the flights or I wouldn't have gone in the height of summer), which isn't quite the Middle East but close enough, and it was ridiculous. Almost passed out at the pyramids with a tour guide pulling me into his air conditioned mini van to bring me back from the edge. Double vision, confusion etc... Absolutely ridiculous.

And despite spending the entire time covered in sun cream I went snorkelling and forgot to do my back as I'd had a t-shirt on all day. Worst, sunburn, ever. Spent my final few days laying face down in the hotel in agony.

 

Worst place I've been to for humidity was Singapore... It's insane how the humidity affects you. Wasn't any kind of extreme heat from the sun with it often seeming overcast, but the humidity made it unbearable to be outside for long periods of time. Air conditioned shopping malls were my best friend.

 

The last week or so has been horrible at night. I'm finding it very difficult to get any kind of sleep... Though it does mean I've been posting on here more again... Which I'm sure everyone else is really pleased about

 

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