Not many weekends left now for endless walkabouts before the summer heat kicks in, so making the most of it while we can. Having tried some barefooted daytime dune walking in May on our first year here, I know not to make the same mistake again. I recently read about someone having been up near an active volcano in such scorching heat that trees practically burst on fire – and another commented, ‘This is nothing, you should try a summer in Dubai’. Although, having spent the first half of my life in freezing northly minus grades, I believe there’s still enough chill in my bones to last a few more Dubai summers yet. When no one else wants to sit outside on a restaurant terrace in mid-July as you can hardly catch your breath from the heat, you might still spot one brave Finn out there. But dunes… I’ll leave those for next winter.