Translation musings: Midsummer around the world

June is coming to an end soon, which means that Midsummer is over! I came back from Finland on Friday, Midsummer’s Eve, which is a public holiday there. It is one of my favourite public holidays (which covers two days) and I can guarantee I’m not the only Finn who...

The height of summer!

Today is the Summer Solstice (here in the Northern Hemisphere anyway), when, at noon, the sun appears to have reached its highest point in the sky. The word solstice derives from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still) – it is at this point that the sun stops...