Summer is officially coming! Or it´s here, I never know. But one thing I do know for sure is that Madrid just got about 10 degrees hotter almost overnight!
This isn´t like England hot either, nor is it like the heat you get on the beaches of Spain. This is dry, no wind, just hot air blowing in your face, middle of Spain HOT, that makes your knees sweat and you´re cursing your job for having a uniform!
And over the next two months, it´s only going to get worse!
When I first came to Madrid I didn´t understand when people told me that in August Madrileños leave. They get in their cars, or board aeroplanes and they get the hell out of here! Well now, entering my third summer here I get it. Madrid is Hell in August, especially when you have no air conditioning and you´re forced to resort to "tips" off the internet like placing a bowl full of ice infront of a fan, wearing a dama T-shirt and sleeping with the balcony door open, just so you can sleep at least half the night before waking up fearing you´ve peed yourself before you realise, nope, it´s just sweat!
We haven´t quite reached the sleeping downstairs surrounded by ice, and wearing wet clothes phase of summer just yet but it´s getting close! Really close!!
Time to book our hols to England I think!!
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