The most spoken about thing with our move here was the weather.
It looks so beautiful but so cold. It looks so cold. I love it but I can’t live without the sun. It all looks so nice but you have so many jackets it must be cold. Lovely but you’re dressed for the cold. I would never survive there. I need to see the sun everyday. I’m a summer person. I can’t live in a winter country like that one.
This actually became a little annoying. Like it never gets cold anywhere else in the world?
We have four seasons here, proper ones. It’s not like back home I feel we either had summer or winter, spring and autumn were short and sometimes hardly noticeable, we moved straight into winter clothes when the leaves turned brown and on the 1st of September we were summer ready and the swimming pool towels came out. That’s how it felt for me and how I experienced it.
We feel the four seasons for longer, the changes in the country side all around us are quite drastic, maybe because it’s mostly farming area. So I get to see the cut bales of grass on the fields…spring is very bright there are hanging baskets filled with flowers everywhere you go. Sidewalks, traffic circles outside homes, pubs the municipal or public areas everything is filled with daffodils and petunias and hydrangeas. It’s impossible to name them all.
The seasons are three months long and we really see and feel all four of them, and yes, it is cold in winter.

But it also gets very cold in SA in the winter months, we moaned every time it snowed in the Drakensberg and a cold front blew in from Cape Town. It’s called winter.
It’s freezing cold here in winter Im sure it’s pretty much the same in the rest of the world in their own winter months. Here because of the winter rain everything freezes and sparkles and glitters. It’s very beautiful. We adapt to the seasons gradually and I don’t hate winter the way I used to. Honestly this weather has been better for me in terms of my migraine headaches. It snows in some parts of Ireland but where we live it’s rare to see snow, sometimes we get sleet.
It rains a lot, everything is always green and wet, my rain coat goes everywhere with me and all my jackets are waterproof and preferably have a hoodie (’cause if it starts raining suddenly my head stays dry). You get used to the rain it’s mostly very soft and light, I love it. Autumn is also very colourful and sooo beautiful. Our summer is a different kind of hot, the 23 degrees here are humid, uncomfortable and an unexplainable kind of hot. We had to buy a fan!!!
We have grey skies but we also see the sun a lot. We really have beautiful sunny days just like back home. And when it’s cold we just layer, add another jacket, a scarf and start a beanie collection.
What’s not to love? ❤️