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AderynCoch

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  1. You can all blame me. I'm coming to Blighty on Monday for two weeks so of course we can write the first half of August off. I feel a bit dirty admitting it but until this week I was kind of glad your weather was so cool and unsettled, because it obviously meant the pattern would change when I arrived - well obviously not! I should know by now that Sod's Law reigns supreme when it comes to the weather. If the pattern is favourable it will change; if unfavourable it will go on seemingly forever!

    To be fair, since I moved to Slovakia summer visits to Britain haven't been bad at all. I suppose that had to end this time round! Also, I seem to be escaping Bratislava just before the weather turns  cooler and more unsettled here.

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  2. 51 minutes ago, NEVES SCREAMER said:

    I'm a bit weird in that i love heat and humid environments. My mate Markyo is the exact opposite. It's just what you like. I never have any bother sleeping when it's hot. But I do if its freezing cold and I can't get warm. It is what it is and why we all come on here and have a bloody good  moan about everything !

    I get you. I'm usually okay sleeping when it's warm but at the moment it's just ridiculous. I could just sleep with the fan next to my bed (as I did often in a previous abode).

    The absolute worst was on holiday in Greece when I was a kid. Me and my brother were up all night because we couldn't sleep, even after pouring water on ourselves. It was only May as well.

  3. 19 minutes ago, NEVES SCREAMER said:

    Yeah I remember you were always complaining about the rubbish spring. Difference is we also had a rubbish spring but where as you currently bask in a proper summer. We continue in a never ending autumn. But fair play all the same. Good luck.

     

     

     

     

     

    Yeah winter was really frustrating (muddy with cold rain), spring was cold (seems to happen every year now) and summer took seemingly forever to get going. But things are better now.

    I'll be in Britain for the first two weeks of August so I hope things will have changed by then!

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  4. 16 minutes ago, blizzardinthehills92 said:

    Haha that’s the city my girlfriend is from! Funny how many people I hear that reference it when they mention Slovakia. A gateway to the mountains but I’ve been once in December and there was a nice amount of snow in the north. Far more than Bratislava got at the same time. I always expect the summer temperatures to be a few degrees higher than the midlands on average but it can really vary depending on the synoptic setup. A euro high and everything heats up widely above 30c fairly readily.
     How long did it take you to learn slovak as I find it tough! We’ve been together over two years but I still find it pretty difficult 

    Yeah, the mountains up north are spectacular. It's just the Little Carpathian hills around Bratislava (up to 700m or so) but they're still very nice. Having them on my doorstep is one of the best things about living here. The Viennese Alps are also not far away (visible on a clear day along with Vienna itself).

    My Slovak's pretty decent but it really should be better after living here for so long. The problem is people often just want to reply in English when they clock that you're foreign. I might just go along to the post office every day to practice, as nobody speaks English there!

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  5. 4 hours ago, blizzardinthehills92 said:

    Have you been over in Bratislava for long? My girlfriends home city but it’s pretty oppressive in the summer from experience 🤣

    I've been living here since 2017 (though it doesn't feel that long!). Summer's not usually that uncomfortable when you're outside sitting in the shade but indoors can be pretty torrid without a/c. The buildings here are largely designed to keep out the winter cold - I actually managed to get through the whole of last winter without using any heating at all - so you can imagine what 30+C days and 20+C nights feel like. Some nights it's impossible to sleep without a fan next to your bed. That said, a/c is now common in public buildings and on public transport.

    Bratislava is a decent place to visit but it's a lot smaller than Prague, Vienna and Budapest so one shouldn't use those cities as a yardstick. Conversely, I first visited Bratislava when I was living in a small city called Žilina in the north of Slovakia and it felt like Tokyo in comparison!

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  6. After being stuck on the wrong side of that bloody high for the first half of June, summer has finally arrived in this part of Europe. Touching 30C today and up to 34C on Thursday.

    It probably won't happen but the ECM has me down for a ridiculous minimum of 26C on Friday!

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  7. Man alive, I just got caught in the heaviest rain I've seen for many a year, probably since the monsoonal downpours I experienced in Cairns, Australia over ten years ago. It had been a muggy but dry day until a thunderstorm broke out just before 3pm (it's still going). It was already bad when I had to go outside but then it intensified further and I got soaked to the bone. I had to put my phone deep inside my backpack; it still managed to get wet but fortunately I think it's okay (I'm posting on it now). Had I waited too long it would have surely been wrecked. I managed to film this before it became too risky:

     

    I'm currently trying to dry off in the centre of town. Still need to get home though!

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