Travel Tips - Sólarhringur: a farewell to summer [journal]

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Let me innovate y'all to an Icelandic give-and-take I learnt recently: Sólarhringur.  With this give-and-take inwards hear , let's tell goodbye to my Scandinavian summer.

Orcas at midnight inwards the Lofoten Islands , Norway

A give-and-take alongside no existent , meaningful English linguistic communication translation , Sólarhringur translates precisely every bit "sun circle" referring to the beautiful 24 sixty minutes sunlight of Scandinavian summer.  It's non the same every bit midnight Sun , which refers exclusively to the phenomenon of sunshine inwards the midnight hours , together with "24 sixty minutes day" doesn't actually total it upward either.  The Greeks know what's upward , though , together with refer to the phenomenon as nychthemeron , which agency "lasting a twenty-four hours together with a night".

While that calorie-free stopped 2 weeks or then agone forthwith , I experience similar the concluding twenty-four hours of summertime - fittingly brilliant together with orangish together with casting long shadows inwards the afternoon - is a expert fourth dimension to tell goodbye to it.

Midnight close Dynjandi , Iceland

It followed me from Kingdom of Norway to Iceland.  Long days , long nights , the possibility to rest upward together with hike mountains at 3am if nosotros felt similar it.  Sleepless nights inwards the motorcar , or i long , uncomfortable nighttime on the Hurtigruten when nosotros didn't mass a cabin together with slept inwards a light-filled lounge.

I've known long days.  A expert summer's twenty-four hours inwards Melbourne sees sunshine until 10pm.  After that , though , the Sun genuinely does set.

In June , inwards the due north of Kingdom of Norway , the heaven would glow a vibrant orangish for long hours overnight.  We stepped out from our tent i nighttime , presently earlier 2am , together with saw strangers walking along the beach asset hands.  The calorie-free , the temperature , the people walking roughly - it could've been 2 inwards the afternoon.  It was slowly to lose runway of time.

In July , together with we'd moved a picayune farther S , downwardly to Republic of Iceland , together with nights saw perpetual dusk.  From 10pm until sunrise , mayhap 4 or 5am , the heaven was a mix of pinks together with blues , similar the Sun was rising together with setting all at once.

Overlooking Kvalvika Beach at midnight , Norway

The days are growing shorter - 8 minutes shorter per day.  I lose 4 minutes inwards the morning time together with 4 inwards the evening.  This has been the strangest together with close magical summer.  When I recall of summertime , I recall of warm sand together with beaches together with twoscore score heat.  Apart from i singular , sweaty twenty-four hours inwards Oslo , I don't recall I've felt genuinely warm (at to the lowest degree non outdoors) all summer.  It was worth it for the Sun , though.

Tomorrow is the commencement twenty-four hours of tumble , which agency 2 things: 1) I'm non going to Hogwarts - which is a shame - together with 2) I exclusively convey i curt calendar month left inwards Republic of Iceland earlier I caput home. I'm spending a lot of fourth dimension writing , a lot of fourth dimension reading , walking the nearby cliffs together with cuddling alongside our resident studio cat.  If anything changes , I'll drib dead along y'all updated (*I besides got a pretty nasty illustration of bronchitis... in all probability from all that sea swimming). 

Cruising close Bodø at midnight , Norway

Lots of dear xxx