Foreign Perspectives

With the Winter upon us people divide into the cold and the warm holiday camps whenever ideas for Winter holidays come up.

Although the Summer is obviously the peak time for warm holidays, there are loads of warm holiday destinations available all year. For one thing, when it’s Winter in the northern hemisphere, its Summer in the southern hemisphere so you can always go to the Summer no matter what month it is.

But, of course, changing hemispheres is pretty expensive in terms of flights and whatnot which takes that out as a viable option for most people, or at least as a regular holiday option. Still, that leaves you with lots of choice of warm, albeit not hot, holiday destinations that are fairly cheap to get to.

For example, southern Spain is still in Summer temperatures even in December. In fact, it’s a much better time to visit southern Spain than in the peak of Summer as the majority of the tourists have gone home so you’re not fighting to get accommodation and the traffic on the roads is considerably less hectic than it is during July and August. Right now Stansted to Valencia can be done for under £30 return, including taxes.

Further south brings in more exotic options for your such as Morocco or Tunisia which combine Winter warmth with a more exotic culture and they’re both fairly cheap places in which to stay.

For all of these, I find that one of the best ways to skim through the options is via SkyScanner which can pull up all kinds of interesting locations that you wouldn’t normally think of.

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