Summer Lovin’!

Sun covering every inch of your body like second skin, and love, getting swept around the city in the Cape Town wind.

Not so long ago there was a sense of lethargy in the Cape, I think people were tired and waiting for the festive season to finally arrive and bring with it the sun; it came late this year but now that it’s here we’ll all hold on to it for as long as we can.

I’m a true winter girl, but this year I am so happy it’s finally summer, bringing with it warmth and a sense of nostalgia and expectancy for me, because last year was the summer I fell in love. Last year, a million years ago.

Long days, festivals, hot tar and laying in as little as possible in sauna-like rooms with unhelpful fans smoking our cigarettes.

Attempting swims in the freezing sea, unbearably enduring car rides to faraway places, beautiful sunsets and delicious cocktails and kisses.

Incandescent nights, faces aglow with perspiration and the day’s sun marked on noses, violent red.

Fashionably promoted tunes everybody knows the lyrics to by the end of the season, together with the soundtrack to our own personal summer solstice.

I can’t wait!