How to survive in a heat-wave in a house built to keep the heat in

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Saina Nieminen

Saina Nieminen
Coming home from town today, I realized that I hadn't opened my windows when I left in the morning - a bad mistake when houses are built to keep the heat in and the temperatures have been around +30 for a few days. From 14:00 until sunset the sun shines right into my *********** making the temperatures soar even further. I like heat, but this moist heat of over +40 inside was too much.

But I came up with a three-step self-help program to make such a situation bearable:

1) Drink some Moscato d'Asti.

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This Spinetta Vigneto Biancospino 2008 seemed to help in making me feel better...

2) ...especially because I thought it best to leave my apartment and go sit on top of a hill overlooking the biggest "city" in Finland - in quotes because it is actually the most densely populated forest in the world.

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3) Take Pevear & Volokhonsky's translation of Chekhov's stories while sipping a mineral, low alcohol, sweet and lively drop is guaranteed to make one feel whole again. Especially if one reads the early stories where Chekhov had a sense of humor and if one drinks one of the producers like this Spinetta or Saracco that isn't only sweet but had a lovely green-fruit and mineral touch to it too.
 
It pains me to admit it, but I am in one sense like Nikolai Stepanovich So-and-so of A Boring Story - I have never really learned to appreciate the theater. I.e. I haven't (this is such a shameful thing to admit) read his plays. So I don't know about The Bear.
 
love that photo of the moscato, Otto. looks like a cooling tower of refreshment!.....(we're getting into +30 days with high humidity here in Kyoto...)

interesting that "low alcohol white wine" is printed on the label.....am i missing something...is this a new trend?
 
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