With injera, some dips and salads, a stew (or pasta), and fresh cheese, youâll have an ideal Ethiopian-inspired meal. Just make sure to leave room for dessert, which typically is sweetened Ethiopian coffeeâprobably the countryâs best-known exportâand a slice of fresh fruit.
Modern thinking that the Summer Solstice is the first day of Summer is simply wrong. Traditionally, the 1st of May has been considered the first day of Summer, hence the Maypole celebrations, when the last vestiges of Winter were bade farewell, and the planting and growth time had returned.
In the astronomical calendar, summer begins on the June equinox â the point at which the Northern Hemisphere is tilted closest to the sun and the days are at their longest during the year. The summer solstice falls on June 21 this year, but the date varies from year to year, falling as early as June 20 or as late as 22 June. Since summer (and other seasons) can begin and end on different days each year on the astronomical calendar, it can be hard to compare seasons from year to year in this way. To standardize the length and start of the seasons, in meteorology, the 12 months of the year have been split up into four, 3-month periods. Therefore, in the meteorological calendar, summer includes the months of June, July and August - always starting on 1 June and ending on 31 August.