Winter is just a couple of months away and already, we’re preparing for another cold one. Portable air conditioning devices will be safely stowed away for the next holiday or British two-week summer as we prepare for the frosty season…
So What Can You Do?
a) Sit at home all day drapped in an electric blanket with your feet soaking in a pool of boiling water (please don’t try this at home).
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b) Take heed of some of our ideas for slightly more interesting approaches keeping warm this winter.
1) Take a Trip to the Hottest Place on Earth
No, it’s not Elle MacPherson in a hot tub after eating a curry. Erta Ale is the most active volcano in Ethiopia and is officially the hottest natural place on Earth! At a whopping 1250°C , it’s one of the few volcanoes on the Planet that have a persistent lava lake, anyone fancy a dip?
2) Holiday to ‘Hell’
Yowzer, named by locals as “The Door to Hell”, Darvas in Turkmenistan might not be the first place you’d choose for a holiday but it’d certainly be a hot one!
Found by a team of geologists 35 years ago, they unexpectedly landed upon this huge underground cavern filled with gas. They ignited it so no poisonous fumes would come out and like a level from Bowser’s Castle it has been burning ever since!
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3) Adopt an Army of Bombardier Beetles
If travelling isn’t your thing then why not get you hands on some of these creative creatures. The Bombardier Beetle can blast boiling liquid at it’s enemies. It’s abdomen contains two reactant chemical compounds in separate reservoirs, when mixed it creates a fiery blast. Each time it does this it shoots 100 times very rapidly. The damage caused can be fatal to attacking insects and small creatures, and is painful to human skin. We reckon that with a little training they could keep you warm throughout the winter (if you don’t mind the occasional scald mark!).
4) Feeling Chilly, Eat Some Chilli!
Here’s probably the most sadistic of our sizzling suggestions. The hottest chilli on the planet is The Dorset Naga, 10x hotter than the Habanero the Dorset Naga packs a punch that makes Mike Tyson look weaker than a wet paper bag.
The world hottest curry comes in the form of “The Bombay Burner” a curry so hot it requires diners to sign a disclaimer before attempting to eat it.
5) Enter The World Sauna Championship
Picture this, you’re at home snuggled up on the sofa watching the latest episode of ‘The Darling Buds of May’, when all of a sudden you have an epiphany, you consider what life would be like scrunched up against some sweaty Scandinavian men in the worlds hottest sauna, and if only you could win a giant hairbrush in the process. Well if this sounds like fun to you then ‘The World Sauna Championship’ is right up you alley, 110 degrees Celsius, the longer you last the closer you get to winning the coveted hairbrush. (I might stay at home today!)
6) On The Subject of Saunas
We are always fascinated to see how our friends in the far east can turn pretty much anything into an outlandish prank, well believe it or not they’ve done it again! This one might put you off going to a mountain top Sauna ever again! (2:30 onwards is amazing!)
7) Beat T-Shirt Man at His Own Game
The Health Service recommend to layer up in the winter so we and 11 million other people found this! It’s T-Shirt Man, the world record holder for the number of T-Shirts worn. 155 T-Shirts, 4 hours and 100 pounds gained in weight!
8) Another World Record to Get you Sweating.
It’s everyones favorite speed clapper Kent “Toast” French, some people dedicate their lives to doing good, some dedicate it to clapping…
9) If All The Above Fail…
We’ve come to the end of our journey, we hope that our suggestions have ensured you a long warm winter. If you still find yourself lacking significant warmth then we have one final suggestion… weighing in 10,000 Kelvin (that’s science talk for very hot!) it’s a nuclear blast! It might cause the destruction of a nation (and a few of it’s neighbors) but for that nanosecond of being toasty warm isn’t it worth it?
