Holidays in Fresco 2025

This article on the 2025 holiday destinations is posted on number 22-23 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until June 3, 2025.

If you love summer, but the idea of ​​facing record temperatures (which unfortunately are no longer record: the extreme heat between July and September is constant for at least four summers) has become a thought, or a concern, you are not alone: At least half of us – 51% according to the latest ENIT study – when designing the summer holidays now also think about the climate and Heat Waves, heat waves that mainly affect cities, but in reality also the coasts and the sea of ​​southern Europe (almost 48 ° C reached in Sardinia in 2024, for example). The first idea, of course, is to flee to the great North. The European one (Iceland, Sweden, Finland, the very ambitious Norway …), that bad luck wants to be as loved and fresh as more expensive for us. In reality, however, there are latitudes “with a calm climate” Even in countries that are not thought of, Like Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and Portugal.

Here are four ideas more or less adventurous, but all with something special by nature, culture, atmosphere that you perhaps don’t know yet, Where to exceed 24 degrees is impossible. And because in our opinion the journey applies (But take a nice jacket).

The Azores’ anticyclone

There is a love story behind the volcanic complex of Thirst cidadeson the island of São Miguel, in the Azores (the one in the photo above). A princess with blue eyes fell in love with a green -eyed shepherd: for their impossible relationship they poured many tears to form two lakes,
one blue and one green. However, those who go on vacation does not cry: it is an excellent land for excursions and black sand beaches. The city of Ponta Delgada it is very equipped for travelers and In the summer you get to the maximum at 22 °.

In the Scottish cottage of Kate and William

A cottage in a silent bay, only the seagulls and networks of the fishermen around. The escape of Princess Kate and Prince William in Scotland for the 14th wedding anniversary brought the Depilate hebrid islands and their poignant beauty to the limelight. The Royals have housed in a cottage a Mull. They did not indicate which, but according to our small investigation it could resemble the one called The Bothyall of a stone in the Lochbuie area. Good news, it is rented, and not at real rates: from about 680 euros per week (if you want to see it, or book it: Isleofmullcottages.com). In August here The 16th are not exceeded. A nice prince jacket of Wales is there.

Tobermory, the capital of the Mul island, in the internal hebrid islands, Scotland. This is where the principles of Wales Kate and William spent their 14th wedding anniversary.

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The principles William and Catherine during their semi-private journey on the island of Mull in late April. Their accommodation has remained secret, but it is a simple cottage of stone on the sea as if they are varied to rent, also at accessible rates.

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On April 29, Prince William, who when he is in Scotland takes the title of Duca of Rothesay, and Catherine, Duchess of Rothesay on the port of Tobermory, Scotland.

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Gaudì started (not for Barcelona)

Maybe the name, Comillastells you little, but the Spaniards know this gem well. In Nordic Spain of Cantabria (READ: annoying anchovies), a refined seaside village, a handful of red roofs on the sea and a house that amazes: El Caprico by Antoni Gaudì. If the legendary American island of Nantucket reminds you a bit, the reason is there: Comillas until 1700 was a whale port. Markets, restaurants, beaches, peace and magic, Maximum 24 ° in August.

Comilas beach, in Cantabria, Spain, is sunny but always fresh: maximum 24 degrees in August.

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El Capri, a lesser known work than Antoni Gaudí in Comillas, Cantabria.

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German romanticism

Where the cranes fly in September, and the Berliners in the summer: Rügenthe largest island in Germany, on the Baltic Sea. Summer maximum: 20 °. White cliffs at Caspar David Friedrich (who in fact painted them), sandy beaches dotted with strandkorbthe wicker armchairs to sunbathe, and nineteenth -century hotels like the historian Kurhaus (today in the A-Rosa group, arosahotels.co.uk) to Binz. Place loved by Thomas Mann and Elizabeth von Arnim, trekking enthusiasts also like. For one Sturm und drang also gastronomic, at the port of Sassnitz The sandwiches with raw herring fillets and onions are found, typical of the Baltic.

The ancient pier on the sea on the island of Rugen.

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A bay and high rocks on the island of Rugen.

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The typical strandkorbthe wine armchairs to sunbathe. They suggest a novel by Thomas Mann, one of the visitors to the island of Rugen.

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