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Italy

The climate of Sardinia: when to go to Sardinia

The climate in Sardinia is typically Mediterranean with mild temperatures throughout the year, winters are short-lived. During the cold season, prevailing mild and wet winds, as mistral blowing from the north-west, while in spring and summer, the prevailing winds are from Africa, bringing warm and dry climate. The northwest of the region is rainy, while the climate in the south […]

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Italy

The climate of Rome: when to go to Rome

The city of Rome has a warm Mediterranean climate, which makes it particularly pleasant to visit in the fall and spring. During July and August, it is often too hot and sticky, temperatures are usually above 35 ° C at noon, and at times in July and August may reach values of 40 ° C. The winter […]

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Italy

The climate of Naples: when to go to Naples

The city of Naples enjoys a mild climate, typically Mediterranean, influenced by the presence of the sea. Naples is a rather rainy city, in autumn and winter months, the city’s climate is mild and rainy in winter, while it is hot and dry – but refreshed by the sea breeze – in summer. Temperatures are mild in […]

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Ireland

The climate of Dublin: when to go to Dublin

Dublin has a temperate maritime climate, with very variable and abrupt climate changes, but characterized by mild winters, and bright and fresh summers, with lack of temperature extremes, with variations in seasonal temperatures less pronounced for a city of this northern latitude. The influence of the warm Gulf Stream which invests the whole of Ireland is also felt […]

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Greece

The climate of Santorini: when to go to Santorini

The island of Santorini is located in the southern Aegean Sea, just north of the island of Crete, this small volcanic island has a Mediterranean-type climate and is very dry. The seasons are characterized by a long dry and hot summer season and a winter season with temperatures relatively mild but rainy. On Santorini, the […]

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Greece

The climate of Mykonos: when to go to Mykonos

The island of Mykonos has a very dry climate with high summer temperatures mitigated by the constant breath of the wind Etesian (Meltem) blowing from the north in the summer months. The sun shines on the island for about 300 days a year. The poor rains – in the island fall in average 367 mm […]

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Greece

The climate of Athens: when to go to Athens

Athens has a typical Mediterranean climate with mild, wet winters and very hot and dry summers. The aridity of the climate of Athens is caused by the position of the city that is surrounded by mountains to the north-west and east, these mountains block the wind and make hot and sultry the summer days, sometimes the […]

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Greece

The climate of Crete: when to go to Crete

The climate of Crete is in a large part of the island a temperate Mediterranean climate, with very hot summers and winters not too cold. Only a small area which includes the island’s southern coast, the plain of Mesara and the mountains of Asterousia is part of the semi-desertic African climate. Rainfalls are irregulars, they are most abundant in the […]

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Greece

The climate of Rhodes: when to go to Rhodes

The island of Rhodes is located in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea near the coast of Turkey. The island is characterized by a typical Mediterranean climate, hot and dry in the summer months and mild and rainy in the winter months. Characteristic of the climate of Rhodes is the presence of constant winds […]

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Germany

The climate of Berlin: when to go to Berlin

The city of Berlin is characterized by an oceanic climate which tends, in part, to become a continental climate, with cold and relatively rainy winters, while the summers are mild and rainy. Berlin has three months of frost per year, the capital of Germany in fact recorded average minimum temperatures below freezing between December and […]

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France

The climate of Normandy: when to go to Normandy

Normandy, lying in the northwestern part of France, has a maritime-oceanic type of climate humid and rainy for most of the year, with a marked variability, very windy, especially along the coast, with heavy rains in every period of the year, with intermediate seasons mild but rainy and cool summers. In Normandy the more humid and rainy […]

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France

The climate of Paris: when to go to Paris

The city of Paris is characterized by a climate halfway between the oceanic and continental ones. Paris generally has hot summers and cold winters with rainfall well distributed throughout the year, but overall rather scarce. The French capital usually has short, mild and rainy winters. this happens when the humid and lukewarm winds blow from […]

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France

How to get to France. Flights to France

AIRPORTS AND FLIGHTS TO FRANCE France has international airports in many of its big cities and regional airports in almost all parts of the country. The main airport in France and among the most important airports in Europe is the airport of Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. The best airline for flights to France is of […]

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France

France power plugs and sockets, telephones

FRANCE DOCUMENTS Travel Documents: EU-nationals to enter France just need to be in possession of an identity card or passport. Minors may enter France if they have their own passport / identity card. If you are a citizen of others countris outside EU, a passport is obligatory, with a visa for certain countries. Driving License: To drive […]

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Finland

The climate of Helsinki: when to go to Helsinki

The climate of Helsinki is influenced mainly by the influence of the continental climate, but in the city, which is located along the coast, are also felt the mild influence of the Baltic Sea. In winter the water of the Gulf of Finland in front of the city freezes completely. The winters are long and […]