Fake rain soaked beaches after a real heatwave: European temps back to normal
July treated Antwerp like a Mediterranean town: 37°C/100°F temperatures with blazing sunshine, but obviously it had to end.
OK, so we’re back to “normal”, weather-wise (21°C/70°F, pouring rain) but my local riverside bar just keeps on faking a med-climate, including the sand (note: just outside this “beach scene” there’s a wet open-air carpark along the riverbanks. Notice the rain protection).
We didn’t buy it: this bar had almost no customers during rain-soaked early August.
Fake beaches during a rainy start of August: who needs them?
(Soon: details about my diving exams and upcoming trip to Egypt 
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