Saturday, June 30

Back Again


Well that's me back to reality after two weeks in the beautiful Greek island of Crete, and I can well recommend it as a place to take a holiday. But whilst sat in a bar enduring the brain frying temperature of 45c (113f) and watching reports on TV of torrential rain and major floods back in the UK. It really does seem time to believe that something must be behind these extremes in weather that we are seeing more and more often. Like it or not climate change is now a fact of life. Locals told me that they had not endured temperatures as high as this for the time of year for twenty years or more, and constantly warned visitors not to stay out too long in the blistering Sun. Most folks were sensible, but of course some weren't and the local medical centres did a roaring trade, with heatstroke and bad sunburn cases galore. When holidaymakers end up visiting these medical centres they are impressed by the treatment that they seem to receive. But what most don't seem to realise is that most of these places located in holiday resorts don't work like the good old NHS, they are private clinics and are purely and simply there to make money. If you limp in with a sprained ankle don't be surprised if you are given blood tests, X-rays and an ECG and any other expensive procedures and tests that they can dream up. OK we know that your travel insurance is going to end up paying for it all, and that's exactly the idea of having insurance, but these places are one of the reasons that it's so expensive.

5 comments:

Dogbait said...

Welcome back.

We went to Santorini in winter once and that was better than getting one's brains fried. Hardly a tourist in sight.

We've been getting our fair share of rain too but no one is complaining except the people flooded out in Gippsland.

bob mullen said...

DB: wish I could get away in winter to, but the daughter is coming up 11 now and we don't want her to miss too much school. Not been to that one before, looked it up and it sounds nice.

Paradise Driver said...

Aloha! Nice "holo-holo".

Will we see pix on your Take Two Steps Back?

Bob, your entry in my contest expired but re-entries are accepted until the odometer reaches 99,000 miles. Please re-enter.

Peggy said...

Welcome back!! Crete looks beautiful. I'm away to Skiathos on Friday. I'm glad YOU and the family didn't get burned in the heat.

bob mullen said...

Wil:Pics coming soon, and I will renter soon, cheers wil.

Peggy:Have a good one Peggy, hope it's just a bit cooler for you.