Everything’s changing. The days are getting longer, and even so, I’m driving away from summer. Driving against the season. But I have to look at this differently: I’m driving away from the summer I’m used to and into Finnish summer! Despite that fact, or precisely because of it, the lakes there will still be frozen over when I arrive in the second half of May.
It’s not just the days that are getting longer—the coffee is, as well. That’s something you really feel. I now have to order a ristretto to get an espresso. How’s that to continue?! The point is: in autumn, the days here will get shorter again, but the coffee won’t.
I usually take pictures until it gets dark. And in that sense, too, I’ll have to figure something out. A friend of mine made a bar chart showing how long the nights are in various places around the time I pass through them. Maybe that’s why the coffee’s getting longer…
The number of dark hours when I pass through each place (chart: Nikolaus Lehner)
PS: German-speakers and learners take note … if you look at just the left side of this graphic, the “bar chart” [Balkendiagramm] becomes a “Balkan chart” [Balkandiagramm].
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