Heat, fainting and festivals

Heat, 40 degrees celcius appeared on the thermometer today. Everywhere it is warm and people are complaining. Is that a Dutch thing to do? It really annoys me. When in summer it rained and it was 15 degrees they were complaining, now it is hot and they are complaining it is too hot... come on.

Festival season has started and today was Decibel, a large festival in the south of the Netherlands. With this heat, drinking and dancing on a festival outside is asking for problems, so there was free water handed out. People in the soccer stadiums were fainting, and benches were half empty..

Wonder what this weather will bring ;)

Raining for weeks, heat and complaints

Summer in the Netherlands was crappy until a few days ago. First it was raining for days on end, then all of a sudden the heath is unbelievable, 30 degrees celcius. There was no slowly building up the temperature, no just rain - extreme heat.

So it is unevitable people start complaining. I guess Dutch are complainers (not all) but in general we like to complain. "It rains too much!", "It is too warm"", "It is too expensive..";)

Now people are complaing about the weather AGAIN. First too much rain, now too much sun. People what do you want. It is summer, it is supposed to be hot, or at least warm! Start enjoying!

Roads to the beaches are full of traffic, icecream sold out, kiddypools are all sold out. Nobody expected this heat to come and voila there it is! Well to be joining in the majority "I am sorry it is not summer all year long!", here is my complaint. Enjoy your summer people!