How I Stay Cool in Spain During the Summer
In honor of the new heat wave sweeping Central/Western Europe* I will share my secret for how I stay cool in southern Spain in the summer. The answer....[drumroll please] Air conditioning. Let me repeat that a little louder. AIR CONDITIONING. What a non-functional air conditioner looks like in Spain There is nothing like it. There is no good alternative. You need AC and it will improve your life 100%. And Spanish houses made of stone are so wonderfully energy efficient! You run the AC just a bit and it cools down the house so quickly and it stays cool with the persianas [rolladens] lowered. In the US I set my AC all summer to 68F/20c**, in Spain, 25c/77F feels fine to me because it's a "dry heat" (most of the time; noches tropicales excepted, although in that case again, the AC does a great job of sucking up all that humidity that makes the nights feel so icky). Yes, there are many things that you can do to "beat the heat" but the one tried and true thing, mor...
