sunset

Because we're far north and the earth is slightly tilted so it doesn't rotate on the same axis as it goes around the sun. If that made any sense. It's not just European countries, and it's not 11 pm. In mid-summer, the sun sets at about 2 pm here, and further north it doesn't set at all. It's the part I miss most if I'm somewhere else in the summer, it's not suppose to get dark all of a sudden in June and July! :-)

I don't really know why that happens and I didn't know it does set that late. Here in the USA, the latest a sun can set is 8 PM.