Debbie Stowe, 47, from Kent, moved to the Romanian capital of Bucharest for a job in 2002, despite knowing nothing about the country.
“It’s just a great quality of life,” Stowe, a freelance journalist, told The i Paper. “I also met a Romanian man.”
Stowe enjoying the local park with other families after the daily temperatures have dropped
“It’s extremely hot every summer,” she said. “Every year, it gets into the high 30s or even above 40C. Last year, it was 42C some days. It can start in June and be hot through September.”
“It’s more regular [temperatures reaching up to 40C] every year now, versus 20 years ago when it would still have been hot, but not this hot every single year,” she said.
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She said she had read in the media of a man with heart problems dying when he rode his bike on a hot day in June. Furthermore, in July the national railway ordered trains to reduce their speed in areas where rail temperatures reached 50C.
“When I was living in the UK, you never needed air conditioning except for maybe 10 days spread over the summer,” she said. “But maybe with climate change, that is changing. When I was back recently at my friend’s house, they had air conditioning in their living room. It’s the first time I’d seen it in a British house. Whereas every apartment in Bucharest has at least one AC unit.”
In Stowe’s apartment, wooden floors as opposed to carpets help to keep the house cooler. “The houses weren’t built like in the UK to retain heat,” she said.
Stowe says Romanians avoid going out in the heat of the day in the summers
“I avoid going out in the middle of the day,” she said. When she does she always has water and sunscreen with her.
There is also air conditioning on buses in Bucharest, and the underground trains are cool to travel on too, she added, which is more comfortable for commuters travelling to work in the heat.
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“We recently went to a safari park [in the UK],” she said. “When we left it was hot, [I was] thinking I should have worn shorts. Then we got out of the car, and it starts raining and is windy, and I’m putting on all the jumpers. Then it’s hot again, and then it clouds over. The changeability is a bit annoying. But here, you know how it’s going to be – hot – so you prepare.”
“Families will leave home at like 7pm and will stay out with the kids until 10pm or later, even with small kids,” she said.
“In the UK, when the sun comes out, Brits rush out, sunbathe, and have barbeques,” she concluded.
“Even in rain, I still insist we go out, because in the UK, if you let rain put you off, you wouldn’t go anywhere. I put my kids in raincoats and take them to the park. There won’t be any Romanians there. As soon as they get rain, they want to come inside.”
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