THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE.....

After waiting for summer all year (and last year too), now it has finally arrived and we are all walking around saying "its too hot!". Saw this on the internet today. Explains perfectly what it is like in Paris this week.... max temperature today of 33.6 degrees.

Cranky from the heat? I bet you are.

The first few days of glorious sun in Paris made us all go wild with unbridled joy. We lounged on café terraces, had picnics on the banks of the Seine, got sunburned, ate ice cream, the kids were happy to be outside and at the end of each day everyone fell into yummy, soft, Summer slumber.

Now it’s been a few weeks of oppressive, humid heat and we’re starting to get grumpy. Today I noticed that the usually Summer-loving Parisians have officially turned into glassy-eyed, foot-dragging Zombies.

Gone are the lovely Amélie Poulian look-alikes in the their short skirts, breezing by, flashing long legs and wide smiles on their Vèlibs. Gone too are the little kids frolicking happily in the local ‘jardins’.

During my lunch hour, I ate my sandwich on a park bench to the shrieking tune of a gaggle of tantrum throwing children.

As she watched her daughter squirming on the ground in the throes of an impressive (in this heat!) hysterical fit, a nearby mother looked at me, rolled her eyes in despair, and said:

“Que voulez-vous que je fasse?”

What to do, indeed?

http://www.ivyparisnews.com/