Belated June Random

I love summer but somehow also feel exhausted by it, by the need to enjoy it while it lasts, which is especially acute in June around the solstice. In English it's called Midsummer, though technically it's of course the beginning of summer, but the fact that days start to get shorter after this point always gives me the eerie sense of an end point as well. 

The skies and the evening lights melting slowly into the night are glorious though, and there's always coffee to be had, books to read and flowers everywhere. Plus lavender and linden blooms, the last of which I did not picture here, but should be imagined as the scent of most city shots- it often happens that the smell will suddenly hit me on some small side street and I just can't find the tree at the heart of it. The scent of linden travels in mysterious ways.

Wonders of Tihany

Truth be said, I am not much of a Balaton person. I would never imagine it as the location of a summer holiday for it is, most definitely, a lake and as such misses those crucial elements of a seaside, such as the salt breeze and the rumble of the waves. The water is also a tad too muddy for me to be able to revel in it and lying on a slab of asphalt alongside aforementioned muddy water doesn't add anything positive to the experience. Tihany on the other hand is absolutely marvelous for a day break, or even a long weekend in early summer: the views are stunning (finally an advantage of the mud, it reflects light quite nicely), flowers are relentlessly blooming and fruit is ripening in every yard, the food is hearty and affordable and it all smells of lavender. Not your grandma's cupboard lavender, but the crisp, free scent of it growing in meadows and glades.