So Happy Easter!
The UK's bonus holiday (Easter, Royal Wedding & May Day) has started, with reports of extra flights leaving for supposed hotspots overseas.
But many people will be flying off to cooler climates, with pullovers a precautionary measure in Corfu and Barcelona, while T-shirt weather continues across the British Isles.
The cooler temperatures along the north Mediterranean coast will see London comfortably hotter at 24C (75F) than Barcelona at 16C and Corfu at 17C .
In the UK, roads to the coast are getting busier, with the Met Office confident that the warm, calm spell will continue well into next week.
The Highways Agency announced the suspension of roadworks at many major sites to help holiday traffic flow, although essential repairs will continue on parts of the M1 and M25. The fire-damaged stretch of the M1 between junctions one and four in London has fully reopened.
Network Rail is optimistic about smoother journeys than last Easter, with less engineering work over the holiday and an estimated 18% more trains running. There will be disruption, however, on the West Coast line in north-west England, the Great Western line and at Liverpool Street station in London, where essential repairs and modernisation need the quieter holiday period to get work done.
Holidaymakers travelling overseas this Easter are expected to top 2 million, in spite of the recession and the balmy climate in the UK, with Amsterdam, Dublin, Paris and Rome the favourite European destinations and New York topping long-haul bookings.
Meanwhile with temperatures expected to bemore than 10c higher than the National Average at this time of the year, Homebase has reported a 20% rise in BBQ sales compared with Easter last year and that it is expecting to sell enough gas to fuel 300,000 barbeques along with enough garden chairs to fill Westminster Abbey 30x over!
Enjoy!
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