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we used to drive to france when i was younger and go there for school and this morning i got milk on some wood and was like 'yeah france'
A lot of people love the smell of petrichor, but to me it smells like dirty worms.
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I did not know that word...but it is beautiful <3
Did not know that dirtybirdy sniffs worms in her free time /:( maybe it's a different way to get high??
Well I a hoping that you get out of the city to enjoy life. It is also my dream. To live somewhere where the gym is the great outdoors, and farms, your pool is the big lake, you know your neighbours, and wallmarte is your garden!
I love america sm I visited and the roads were gargantuan! And there is variety between the states, and the history is cool and badass idk why, and nature is wild and incredible, and houses are better, and the cities are beautiful, there's so much soul and activity, I dream of going back.
Ox, literally go to America it's actually awesome
that's because Francis is the best country there is on the planet and smelling like milk and wood is definitely better than the polluted air and gunpowder in the United States.
I lived in Italy for several years, and I associate some smells very strongly with the country.
After I'd bought my farmhouse, I drove from Scotland to central Italy with a van-load of my stuff. I'd decided not to risk parking the van outside a hotel because I was paranoid about thieves, so I'd just stopped a couple of times for naps in French motorway rest areas, then got back on the road. I rolled into Italy at about five in the morning on a crisp, sunny late-September day, and as I passed every Autostrada rest area, I could clearly smell espresso.
I also strongly associate the smell of olive oil with Italy. Not the old, bland, rubbish stuff that you can buy in supermarkets, but the fresh, green, pungent smell that fills the air around olive presses during the harvest late in the year.
I walked past a house today that had a woodfire going, and that smell took me back to Italy too, since we lived in a very rural area where everyone heats their homes with wood, and the countryside is covered in a haze of woodsmoke from around November until March every year.
Wow Boojum those are some beautiful images you are putting in my head. Did you have a job as a farmer in Italy?
No, I was fortunate enough to basically retire at 50, so I sold my house in Scotland and bought an old (as in probably built sometime in the 1700s) farmhouse with 7 ha (about 17 acres) of land in Abruzzo (basically on the eastern side of the boot opposite Rome).
I wasn't a farmer at all, but we had around 50 olive trees which produced more oil than we could ever use, had a tiny garden for salad stuff, and we had chickens and bees. There were also grapes, fig trees that produced way more than we could ever eat and several walnut trees.
In many ways, it was a good life and I look back on it fondly, although the winters in the foothills of the Apennines can be a long, long way from the weather most people think of when they imagine Italy, and Italy has its share of dickheads in government offices. We moved to the UK a few years ago mainly because of the unexpected arrival of a daughter twelve years ago, and our gradual realisation that she'd never be considered Italian, and that would limit her options when she grew up.
I've been to France, the air is just regular air. Austria however smells like manure... All of it. Every autobahn, every road, every ring road outside major cities. Manure!
I always turn on the activated charcoal filter in my car, when I drive through Austria.
LOL
I've driven through Austria several times, and I've never noticed this.
Maybe you were just there at the manure-spreading time of year.
Well, I usually drive through Austria in either late July, or mid to late August, when going on vacation/ back home to Bulgaria.
It always smells like manure in July and August. But I've also visited friends in May and it smelled like manure again.
No clue when you use manure and fertilizers. I assume spring...
I'm not a dairy farmer, but I live in an area of Wales where there are a lot of cows.
My impression is that there's a lot of muck-spreading in spring. My assumption is that the stuff from the milking sheds accumulates over the winter because the fields are too soggy to drive tractors on without leaving ruts. During the relative dry times of the year (Wales is never really dry), they seem to spread on an ad hoc basis.
I'll be sure to sniff the next time we pass through Austria, and I'll get back to you!
megadriver i swear just get a drop of milk drop it on a fence or smth really you will know what i mean!
shame about austria though! I want to go sm...what is it like?