Thank goodness, we’re no longer in the United States (1)
Our major holiday in 2011 was a week in Syria [my account here] and a couple of weeks later the revolution began there and continues its bloody course to this day.
Our major holiday this year was two weeks in the United States [my account here] – including one week in the Washington DC area – and a month later the region was hit by record temperatures for June and a ferocious type of storm known as a derecho [more information here].
Thank goodness, we live in Britain where the politics and the climate are both relatively moderate.