The hotel opens directly onto the sands, so is fab for living the beach life, but not too far from the room so you can stay polished rather than parched.
The ludicrousness of letting this untapped resource pour into the sewer, rather than nourish parched gardens, if the drought intensifies this summer, may occur to county health departments.
And even in late August the grass is still green rather than pale and parched.
Instead they have parched and stunted wheat.
"Every day it gets worse," said Victor Christian, the owner of a livestock market in Carnesville, Ga., where he says farmers are selling their cattle rather than watch them starve on pastures parched by one of the hottest and driest summers on record.
Old-world farmers come across rather too romantically, but the prose is sharp: parched cacti, for instance, 'sucked in like very prickly supermodels'.
And when he sings, what comes out sounds strained and parched, drained of its usual power, but with a different, rather more difficult kind of potency in its place.
In a world colored by its interactions rather than its differences, it is no longer possible to watch democrats wither on the vines of parched authoritarian practices.
Set in the flat, parched, dusty, impoverished Brazilian north east, Andrucha Waddington's Me You Them is a visually striking, dramatically rather dull story of a jolie laide peasant woman, a victim of weak, macho men, getting some kind of grip on life without disrupting the social system.
Others are positively parched.
