Naps, air conditioning and fans: faced with the heat, the Spanish adapt and switch to slow motion
Valérie Demon (correspondent in Madrid)
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A woman uses a fan to counter the effects of the heat on the streets of Madrid on June 18. Mariscal / EPA/MAXPPP
The Spanish are well acquainted with the sweltering heat that is increasingly prevalent across Europe. Adapting to these scorching summers, the country adopts a different rhythm.
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I subscribeLast Monday, as the heatwave reached its peak in Spain, the subject was almost absent from the front pages of newspapers, despite the record temperature of 46 degrees Celsius reached the day before in a small village in the province of Huelva, in Andalusia. Are the Spanish less sensitive to the heat than the French? " We're hot, but like every summer, even if an end-of-June temperature of 40 degrees Celsius isn't that common ," Juan says.
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