Summer Sips
Popular on Colombia’s coast, this creamy hot-day drink blends lime with coconut.
What is limonada de coco / coconut limeade / Piña Colada?
This Cumbria national park is famous for England’s lakes, tarns, and mountain scenery.
What is the Lake District?
Canadians use this term to describe how temperature and humidity together feel to the average person.
What is the humidex?
This “Mother Road” linked Chicago with Los Angeles over about 2,400 miles after opening in 1926.
What is Route 66?
This 1975 Steven Spielberg shark thriller is often considered the first summer blockbuster.
What is Jaws?
This fruity gin-based cup has been a Wimbledon staple for more than five decades.
What is Pimm’s / a Pimm’s Cup?
Shared with Germany and Denmark, this UNESCO site is the world’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats.
What is the Wadden Sea?
The U.S. National Weather Service calls this the “apparent temperature” when relative humidity is combined with air temperature.
What is the heat index?
This scenic Cape Breton loop is about 300 km and runs through Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
What is the Cabot Trail?
This Colombian singer made “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” the official 2010 FIFA World Cup song.
Who is Shakira?
Walter Chell invented this Calgary cocktail in 1969; it’s usually served with a celery-salt rim.
What is a Caesar?
Created in 1872, this park is recognized by the U.S. National Park Service as the world’s first national park.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
In the Netherlands, an official heat wave requires at least five 25°C days in De Bilt, including three days above this temperature.
What is 30°C?
The Coffee Triangle Loop famous for its coffee farms and towering palms
What is "Eje Cafetero"
This 1993 baseball movie follows a magical summer in the early 1960s after Scotty Smalls joins a neighborhood team.
What is The Sandlot?
Often described as Dutch gin, this traditional juniper-flavoured liquor is associated with the Netherlands and Belgium.
What is jenever / genever?
Near Salento, this valley is famous for wax palms, Colombia’s national tree, which can grow up to 60 metres.
What is Cocora Valley?
What weather pattern occurs when the Pacific Ocean near the equator becomes unusually warm, often causing wetter weather in some regions and droughts in others?
El Niño
This Dutch Eurodance group gave the world “We’re Going to Ibiza!” and “We Like to Party!”
Who are the Vengaboys?
This non-alcoholic drink named for a golfer mixes iced tea and lemonade.
What is an Arnold Palmer?
This Alberta park is Canada’s first national park, known for Rocky Mountain peaks and turquoise glacial lakes.
What is Banff National Park?
England’s Dorset and East Devon Coast is better known by this fossil-friendly World Heritage nickname.
What is the Jurassic Coast?
This Beach Boys tropical hit from Cocktail became the band’s last Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 1988.
What is “Kokomo”?