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RE: Sardinia: just an usual windy Sunday on the South-West coast

in Worldmappin4 months ago (edited)

Yesterday was Sunday and air was finally smelling of spring

Hello, namesake.

It sounds very funny to me.
Why? I'll explain now.

On March 1, a friend told me - the smell of spring. I replied to her - the manure is starting to burn.
In fact, frosts of up to -18 degrees at night and about -8 degrees in the afternoon are forecast in my region next week.
It's still early for the smell of spring. But yesterday it was +1 degrees. This temperature is the first time since the end of October.

To understand what spring is, and what smells it has, you need to go through the winter months, starting from November to April. And then in the countryside, you can catch these unusual smells of spring.
But I agree that the seaside smells are great too!

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This is a very interesting thought, and it expressed very well the huge geographic difference between our countries. I have a friend in Kemerovo and she often shows me videos, and we make jokes about this topic.
I lived some years in the north of Italy and we tried the "Siberian storm" in 2018: snow everywhere, very low temperatures like -18°C, etc. It was more difficult but, as you said, it was the most intense winter in my life and it made the "awakening" more intense too. I particularly enjoyed that spring.

About Sardinia, the winter is not particularly cold, but the strong and cold wind from the north penetrates the bones and its action seems to erase every smell from the nature.
When you can smell in the air the scent of myrtle, juniper, basil and wild rosemary, moss... well, this is what spring means for us. The sun makes all the rest :)

Very nice to meet you, Aleksandr!