Is our love affair with sun holidays about to cool?

As Ireland’s most recent heatwave is replaced by an autumnal chill in the air, spare a thought for our European cousins, for whom far-more-outlandish temperatures have become a predictable annual occurrence.

Last year, Greece, in particular the island of Rhodes, was decimated by surging temperatures and rampant wildfires.

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