The article reflects on dining outdoors in various European cities and contrasts the British perspective on weather and social culture. Despite common beliefs, the UK experiences less rainfall than cities like Rome and Paris. The London mayor's initiative, Summer Streets fund, aims to enhance outdoor dining and drinking experiences in the capital, promoting a shift towards embracing public spaces for social interactions, challenging traditional notions of British indoor-centric habits. This change comes in the wake of particularly sunny spring seasons, encouraging outdoor enjoying of food and companionship.
One Sunday last September, I sat at a table outside one of Lyon's famous traditional bouchon restaurants, eating a sumptuous prix-fixe lunch, as the heavens opened and a small monsoon pounded the cobbles around me.
London has less annual rainfall than Rome, Paris or Vienna. Foremost among the stories we tell about ourselves is that we do things differently from those carefree continentals.
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