In Maldives the average temperature is 30 degrees Celsius, and the winters are not that different from summers. Rains? I think they do happen once in a blue moon. The people do say that the sea can get rough, and in theory there are some thunderstorms. However, compared to this weekend in Bucharest – rains, storms, cold, flooded streets, raindrops falling in the beer mug and a sun that doesn’t want to shine on us, Maldives seems like a faraway paradise.

Which, in a way, it is…