I have always been able to deal with cold a lot better than with heat. My friend Eva is the other way round. She is adventurous enough to still have wanted to paddle when she came to visit me in Norway (I studied in Volda in 2015).
She was worried about the cold, though, because the only time she could come visit was in winter. ‘No cotton, wool or fleece, something that will still keep you warm when wet’ is one of my standard instructions to make it work. That day, I also put a hot water bottle in the boat by her feet. It worked, and we had a great time on Voldafjord in front of snowy Rotsethornet.
A year later, she was studying in the very south of Spain. I went to visit her in summer and called her worrying about how I’d deal with the heat : D