They're not cold - they're English!

We are in Buenos Aires during its winter and everyone here is walking around in coats and scarves.  At our language school, the teachers keep saying how cold it is and are surprised when we don't agree.  The exception was the owner of the school who came out with the title of this post - "they're not cold, they're English!"

And she is right.  To us it really isn't that cold at all, more like a British spring or autumn.  We could have done with a pair of gloves on Sunday when we were walking around the botanical gardens with its resident multitude of feral (though well fed) cats, but we haven't needed to bother with a coat or jumper.  And when the sun is out like today it is really quite warm.

I guess that temperature is relative to what you are used to and if you stay in one place for long enough then you'll acclimatise to the local view of what hot and cold means.  I'm not sure that we will ever be stationary enough to change our expectation of the weather, so our internal thermometers will probably stay fixed to the UK climate.  That probably isn't a bad thing, as if we are expecting British weather then most of the time we're not likely to feel disappointed with what we actually get.  And if we hit the rainy season in the Amazon we might even decide the British rain isn't so bad either!