Mallorca Beach ©hanspoldoja/Flickr
Sunshine-anticipating hysteria hits the UK after a few weeks of early heat every year. The people of Britain naively drag out their barbecues and parasols to expectantly greet the sun, but their hopes are inevitably dashed as the weather disappoints and the rain drenches everything.
Thankfully there’s one simple way to make sure that the sunshine is guaranteed: go on a holiday abroad where the weather’s better.
Fed-up Brits have been taking special note of this tactic this year – buoyed on by the rising pound and the incoming Olympics: foreign currency calculator Caxton FX recently commissioned a YouGov poll that showed a whopping 67% of Brits planned to holiday abroad this year. This exodus is in spite of squeezed household incomes and many government campaigns to encourage Brits to holiday at home. (more…)
