Summer heat on the Spanish meseta.

People often ask me how a Norwegian can live with the heat of the Spanish summer. Not so strange, really, when temperatures here in Madrid and the center of the meseta range between +30º and +40º celsius, or more (...in summer). While in Norway, a tough winter can offer temperatures with the same digits and a minus in front…

I CAN live it, and I continue to do so. And, as I am a kind of adaptive guy, I do not complain, nor think about better places to be, getting really, really distracted by it. But, I do not really go looking for the sunniest heat to get into it either. It would be more correct to say that you just float with it, and then the comfortable things and you will simply attract eachother.

Having said that, a swimming pool nearby makes life feel better in the hottest time, July and August. Even in the pandemics the pools have stayed open around here. Just not in my place. My neighbours have other priorities.....So, in this case I complained. Really.

Nevertheless, modern Spain can offer a lot in this respect of enjoyment… Fresh mornings for the early birds, slow strolls in the village or city center in the evenings, cold cervezas of any kind, refreshing tinto de verano, big trees with shades, a looong siesta (in the weekends or on a holiday for most people), airconditioning, evenings in a terraza sprayed with fine, cool water clouds, piscinas, a sailing boat on the Mediterraneo, the green hilly and rocky Atlantic coast-line from Galicia, vía Asturias, Cantabria and Basque Country…

This video that I found via Vimeo (Spain on Vimeo) has images from La Meseta, the central highland plains.