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Milan in May

5/23/2014

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My favourite month.

The days are warm, sunny, we haven’t had rain for weeks but it doesn’t yet matter. Jeans, t-shirt, cute little checked shirt for the Bean.

The odd sticky, humid, Why am I sweating like a horse? kind of day. Oh. THAT was brewing. Just when I’m supposed to do the nursery run. Both spectacular and spectacularly bad timing.
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Relief. The shade still offering shelter from both the heat and the sun, the nights still cool. Doesn’t matter that I got soaked, it’s warm. Let the Bean run around butt-naked.

Smile, knowingly. If this were the UK, there would be a frenzy of barbecues and strappy sandals and red shoulders. If this were the UK, we would wonder Is this it? Is this all the summer we’re getting?

But in Milan? No, just you wait, look the clues are there. The dog days of summer are not so far away. The mosquitoes are amassing, the night time temperatures are climbing. Green will turn into brown. May will be a memory soon.

But for now:
The smell of jasmine, thick and sweet, dominates.
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Rachel - 3yearsandhome link
5/23/2014 08:30:03 am

I visited Milan in May but many, many Mays ago. It was lovely and torn between rain and sun the whole time we were there. Thankfully, we found cover from the showers in many a yummy restaurant.

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Eline @ Pasta & Patchwork link
6/1/2014 03:24:54 pm

I really do think it's the best time of year to visit. The Italians complain about the changeable temperature and the wind but I think they are NUTTY. I love it. It's like the very best of a British summer!

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Carie link
5/27/2014 05:28:28 am

Oh how I envy you the confidence to know that there's more summer yet to come - as you say there are no guarantees at all in the UK that that brief flurry of sunshine last week wasn't it for the whole season!!

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Eline @ Pasta & Patchwork link
6/1/2014 03:27:11 pm

If it's any consolation, I've learned to feel quite a bit of trepidation about knowing summer's on the way. Summer in Milan is really, really uncomfortably hot and humid!

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