The short, swift streams of Galicia and Cantabria, draining to the northwestern and northern coasts, respectively, have only a slight or, at most, modest summer minimum.
But Sebastian Junger, who was hard at work writing "The Perfect Storm," often let the temperature in his parents' modest summer house here drop into the shiver zone.
He knows he could find "a fabulous place in the hills above Cap- Ferrat" for far less than the $50,000 a modest summer house rents for here.
In 1934, he and his wife, Josephine, built a modest summer house — a classic Cape, but for a huge north-facing window.
Plans for the city's oldest park date back to 1704, just a year after the founding of the city itself, as Peter the Great was keen to find a suitable location for his modest summer residence.
He lives with his wife and two children in a relatively modest house in Waterloo, a medium-size city not noted for millionaires, let alone billionaires; has a modest summer cottage; and drives an ordinary sport utility vehicle.
