Celebrating midsummer – A photo essay

‘At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.’ Edgar Allan Poe (The Sleeper) June gets sunnier every year but two things ensure I look forward to this wonderful month despite the sweltering heat and unbearably hot nights: my birthday and my town’s annual carnival, both of which fall around the summer solstice, or midsummer, or – if you are either a Swede or just fancy –…