Greece has a solution.
Bild- Dear Germans, spend the winter with us on the beach!
“We invite every German who wants to come to us this winter to live here – away from the crises. Chania is the perfect place to survive a crisis winter: warm, friendly people and perhaps the best year-round climate in all of Europe.” He knows: “We don’t need heating in the house.”
(You might need google translate for this.)
I’ve been to Chania. It’s a nice place, but virtually all of Crete is bordering on being Third World outside of the main cities and the national highway traversing the “spine” of the island. And it does get cold there in January/February (frost is not unheard of there, even at sea level).
Southern Europe’s main problem and dirty little secret is that it gets a lot colder in the winter than people realize, and most people can’t afford to heat their homes, so folks there often bundle up in sweaters etc. inside.
“Southern Europe’s main problem and dirty little secret is that it gets a lot colder in the winter than people realize . . .”
I lived a winter on the southern coast of Spain. Damned near froze to death until I broke down and called family back in the States and had them ship me an electric heater I could huddle over.
Coldest winter experienced where I worried about hypothermia I ever experienced was in San Francisco visiting relatives in February who had no central heat. When I got home to Canada I nearly went and hugged my beautiful furnace.
In Santorini a few years ago there were hundreds of nearly finished beach villas priced about 25k Canadian. They were Spartan but the no.heat required aspect I found very attractive. My biggest concern would be squatters.
Squatters, especially of the “migrant” kind, have been a plague all over Greek south.
1. Germans sabotage development of Polish fracking and Polish coal to make Poland dependent on the russia.
2. Germans sabotage their own coal and nuclear power generation and make themselves dependent on russia.
3. Poland abandons russian supplies and laughs when russians refuse to extend further deliveries, that Poland wasn’t interested in buying in the first place.
4. A large portion of russian energy transfers to Germany go through Poland.
Looks like this hand was played a little better by Poland than by Germany.
So basically Germany gave Poland a handjob!
LOL. Yes accidently.
Yeah, if I was living in Germany I would seriously consider spending the winter in a warm climate or at least send my family out of the country if I had to work. I hope the Germans can muddle their way through the winter but it isn’t looking very promising at the moment. The social unrest will only be rivaled by the humanitarian crisis if the energy shortages are as bad as some predict.
With all of the government and media manufactured hysteria over the last couple decades, you never really know if they’re just crying wolf again.
I hear SriLanka is nice that time of year … ?
It is! If by nice you mean warm with scattered famine.
Plus the food thing is going to be interesting.
You cant run or hide from bad energy policy.. Its best to just freeze to death in front of your computer or TV.. A winter of people warming their homes with candles and green wood?.. The always welcome propane BBQ in the living room..
Its gonna get ugly fast..
PS … and please bring us your newly exchanged Russian Rubles!! Our Eurobucks are shrinking faster than Zelensky’s pennis.
damn , how will he play the piano?
i swear he is worse than blackie mcblackface
Those pesky Germans will reserve all the beach chairs and not show up till after lunch