Summer days at Grabov Rat :

This summer, when I arrived to Grabov Rat just a couple of days after the summer solstice, my gardening hours were from five to nine (nine thirty at most, DST) in the morning - I could not stand the Sun after that. Now, as fall equinox is approaching, it is quite dark at five and I don’t start before six but I can work till ten or even ten thirty. Gardening has increased my awareness of the Sun movement.

The table below was assembled for Grabov Rat (16⁰ 40' E, 43⁰ 16' N) using US Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications software (http://aa.usno.navy.mil). Two days were selected: the summer solstice (Jun 21, 2006) and the fall equinox (Sep. 23, 2006).