Mid-afternoon, mid-city, the middle of the Summer holidays.
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Mid-afternoon, mid-city, the middle of the Summer holidays. This is usually one of the most bustling streets in the city centre. Always lots of people walking around, parking bikes, waiting to meet someone, cycling by, window-shopping, standing while doing something on their phone, hanging out, going in and out of the busy supermarket. Unsettling to see it almost deserted, the few people around all walking in the thin line of shadow on one side of the street.
@CiaraNi So, not Aarhus in the middle of the street? Madness.
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@CiaraNi So, not Aarhus in the middle of the street? Madness.
@woe2you Haha - no
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@CiaraNi Cannot be too long before people start to migrate to Nordic countries.
@NicelyManifest I wonder if people from Southern Europe are already coming here for so-called 'coolcations'. If so, I hope they are not coming by plane.
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Mid-afternoon, mid-city, the middle of the Summer holidays. This is usually one of the most bustling streets in the city centre. Always lots of people walking around, parking bikes, waiting to meet someone, cycling by, window-shopping, standing while doing something on their phone, hanging out, going in and out of the busy supermarket. Unsettling to see it almost deserted, the few people around all walking in the thin line of shadow on one side of the street.
@CiaraNi needs a couple of trees
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@johnb48 Aarhus - I tagged the place. I think the high was 30 yesterday. Scorching, whatever degree it officially was.
Ahhh... Looks like a great place to live. I'd missed the tag. Sure understand heat. It's the time when we normally have 38c or higher. But all of our houses and cars are built with air conditioning.
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@Tooden Yes. Ameliorating measures like that are going to be seen more and more, no doubt. It is only going to get hotter from here.
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@NicelyManifest I wonder if people from Southern Europe are already coming here for so-called 'coolcations'. If so, I hope they are not coming by plane.
@CiaraNi The presumption of many that the availability of planes going everywhere makes the taking of a journey free from environmental consideration.
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@CiaraNi needs a couple of trees
@peterbrown Yes, such a relief every time we can walk under trees. To be fair to both the council and the city, we're fairly okay in Aarhus - a fair amount of shady green spaces and street trees, including public benches with tree shade. This is just a snapshot of one particular stretch of sreet with not many. I hope we get more.
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Ahhh... Looks like a great place to live. I'd missed the tag. Sure understand heat. It's the time when we normally have 38c or higher. But all of our houses and cars are built with air conditioning.
@johnb48 Yes. Our infrastructure is designed to let sunlight in and retain heat, so it doesn't even have to reach 30 before we're having everyday difficulties functioning in heat.
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@CiaraNi Your point is undoubtedly valid, but I would note, however, that it is not unusual for normally busy streets of Aarhus to be way less ‘bustling’ in the middle of the school holidays, even when there is no heatwave.
