It was a trip to Ireland in August 2023 that changed things for Susan Taylor. While her hometown of Austin, Texas was baking in heat and humidity, she landed in Belfast to find pleasant and mild temperatures.

“The weather was so cool and lovely,” she says. “I just loved it.”

The trip transformed the way Taylor, who is retired, traveled. Rather than visiting hot locations, she decided to focus her travel to more temperate climates. “You’re spending a lot of money on these vacations,” she says. “Do you really want to be super crowded in 90 degree weather and no air conditioning?”

As much of the world experiences record breaking temperatures due to global warming, many once popular travel destinations are seeing their summers transformed by climate change —especially in Europe, which is

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