Heat. My hometown of Grand Marais, Minnesota could never have prepared me for this heat. Grand Marais is a place where I have seen snow every month of the year except July. It is alway cool, mild, chilled, like a bottle of water pulled from the middle of the lake. Here, the heat follows you. It stalks you everywhere; the shade, inside, the car. The only escape is my air conditioned dorm room. It’s 10:42 in the morning and I’m two liters in, something the adorable luke-warmth of Minnesota would never ask of me. The Mediterranean is less like a cool drink of lake water and more like the cloying and sticky taste of anise flavored Turkish raki. This heat is indescribable.<\/p>\n
We finished digging early on Thursday, thanks to the end of Ramazan. After a lunch in the shade, we all piled into the bus to travel down the cliffs to the secret pirate cove next door. With a hot day of digging done, jumping into the Mediterranean is likely the most refreshing thing I have experienced. With cliffs aplenty to jump from, and a freshwater spring to rinse off with, looking into the deep blue of the cove is to view an oasis of cool in this scorched land<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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