The smell of summer
By Rob Jones | April 29, 2010
Yesterday, for the first time this year, I experienced what I unmistakeably think of as the smell of summer; a slight whiff of cigarette smoke combined with various smells of (fast) food! For some reason it reminds me of the summers when I was a child and went to the beach with my mum and dad. Around lunchtime my dad would always take us (my brother and I) with him to get some wonderful, but unhealthy, food. Inevitably, a number of people would always be smoking near us.
It doesn’t matter where I am, whether it’s in town, on a race track, or the beach. The combination of warmer temperatures, blue skies and the smells of smoke and fast food spark these old memories of summer and beach. The first time when all of these factors combine into one moment, I will realise that another year has turned and summer has come upon us again.
