But in Spain, they have a siesta - it's about four hours sleeping in the afternoon.
Leave the door open and let the sea breeze follow you inside as you enjoy a siesta on your soft, king-sized bed.
The torpid feline raised its huge head, yawned, and fixed the boat with a long, disinterested stare, eventually resuming his interrupted siesta.
Faithful to their ritual, despite the heat, the Italians are all off home for a cooked lunch and a siesta until 3.30pm.
Muhammad Kasro was curled up in the back of his small hardware shop in Arbil bazaar last month when an explosion interrupted his siesta.
Press the button once, twice, then press it a third time and hold to tell the band you want to take a quick siesta.
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Mr Weld, while better at Latin, speaks tolerable Spanish: siesta, etc.
Then it is back to the farmhouse for an alfresco asado (barbecue) and a quick hammock siesta before you hit the trails again for a few whiplash-inducing hours on horseback.
Maria can recall hiding in the sprawling branches of the almond trees as a child when her mother was shouting at her to come inside for a siesta.
This is the country that invented the siesta: that most human of solutions to the problem of a sometimes punishing hot climate and the natural dip in energy and focus that comes at midday.
In fact, Cooking Light magazine named his spiced rum as one of the best artisan products in their 2012 taste awards and The Caribbean Journal awarded Siesta Key toe title of Best Spiced Rum of the Year.
Throughout the three hours a day that we spent at the beach (they stayed longer, perhaps taking their siesta there and, who knows, staying until sunset), she barely moved and was, of course, concerned only with her own beautification.
Standing on Fermor's terrace, with its fragments of classical sculpture and its vertiginous view of a turquoise cove of stones, I felt as if the inhabitants of 40 years ago had momentarily gone inside for a siesta and would soon be out for a dusk-lit gin and tonic.
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