Quote Originally Posted by Doc Alan View Post
The warmest place in the UK was Jersey at 30 ( 86 ), the same as Paris, and beating Rome, Athens, Majorca, Corsica, and Geneva ( all around 29 ). Manila reached 31 .
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... to quote the now 'timeless' words immortalised by one, Victor Meldrew ... "I don't believe it!" Actually, I do ... it's just that having sampled last week's temperatures in Rome - and those in both Majorca and Athens back in 1994 - it somehow seems difficult to imagine ANYwhere in such close proximity to mainland as the Channel Islands, being hotter!

No 'jersey' (as in pullover) needed there, evidently!

Paris ... admittedly, in March last year ... was

Places like Perth [Australia], the French island of Corsica ... and Geneva, I haven't been to.