Summer

There are different rules about when it's summer in Sweden, on Tuesday the fifteenth occurs one of them. After that day we are no longer allowed to drive around using winter tyres with studs, unless there is a risk of icy roads or snowfall. I'm not using studs but I usually change to summer tyres around that date anyway. It saves me some petrol and summer tyres are less noisy.

Another summer date is "Summer time" itself, when we reset the clock, which happened on the thirtieth of March. And then, of course, the actual meteorological summer which happens when the average temperature has stayed above 10 degrees for a "sustainable time", in Sweden summer  is normally between June to August but it can vary hugely within our long country, 1600km north to south and 500km west to east.

A lovely day to change tyres, it takes me around forty minutes, I'm in no hurry.