A Hot Day

On the day we paralleled the Croatian border, the temperature was about 35C, perhaps a little higher than the famous Britih heatwave of a month ago, which made hilarious headlines in Australia when Nottingham was declared a 'disaster' area after the temperature there hit a scorching 28C.



At 35C, the locals headed to resorts like the one shown and stripped to as little as possible. This facility, about 50m from the Croatian border is designed to attract people from that country, as well as itinerant Germans and Austrians looking for the Dalmatian Coast. The owners had even sighted a rare migratory POM who had come along for their chocolate treatment in which the body is entirely encased in dark chocolate! Someone was sufficently politically incorrect to ask if Barack Oabama woudl be coated in white chocolate were he to turn up. Anyway, I'll give Dot a surprise of this kind if she'll return to Slovenia one day. The resort has numerous other body treatments for the tired and ailing!

The hill in the background is in Croatia.

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