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A Gratuitous Picture Post!

last weekend we went on a walk around Šobec...














at some point we also went to kranjska gora and watched a bit of popular Slovenian rock band Siddhartha. They are really pretty awful.

Running Up That Hill

The other day I thought I was just gonna go on a short walk, maybe around Lake Bled, with The Captain but he decided we'd do a proper hike. I was wearing unlined rubber boots and a dress, I really don't know what he was thinking...anyway, I ended up hiking up a steep incline in my inappropriate gear. I am never going walking with that dude again.

Holiday Redux

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks of holiday-ing.

Christmas party at Marine house (I felt like I was in Middle America as soon as I walked in, really strange)


Christmas morning mass at Radovljica church (only the second time Ive ever been to a Catholic mass. they put on quite a production!)







I went to a concert in a high school gymnasium here in Wheelville and they had a brief interlude for the jugglers of Čupakabra to perform, it was random and wonderful


The concert


A super snowy walk (video to come!) in Begunčica




A beautiful Dutch meal at a friend's house






New Year's Day






New Year's Duck


The size small pizza at Ema doesn't even fit on the plate


Finally taking the tree down


A walk in the snow....


... another walk in the snow....


more snow...


.... a snow man....


...and of course a wizard dog.

Frozen Frustration/ More MIllion Dollar Ideas

As readers of this blog will note, there are countless things that annoy me about living here. Normally I am nice enough to try and balance them out with kind comments, and I usually only mention the trivial things that bug me instead of the big glaring things like inane bureaucracy and how rude people can be here. So in light of focusing on one big glaring thing that has bugging me I am gonna focus on something trivial that seems to be growing in importance as the temperatures creep up....ICE



Is it true? Can I really NOT buy a big ol' bag of ice in this country? Just some big cumbersome thing to shove in the freezer and throw blocks into my blender to make refreshing drinks all summer long? Is that unavailable? Really? REALLY?



I mean I am willing to tolerate the lack air conditioning in the houses thing but no ice? What gives? This whole place is full of ice and snow all winter, are we all so afflicted that we cannot bare the sight of it once the winter is over? Come on! A girl can't live on low-grade pivo alone! Gimme a break. Gimme some ice.

Wet Wet Wet

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It has been raining cats and dogs here for days on end and from all forecasts I've seen there is no end in sight. I spent a few minutes looking around online for somewhere I could hop on the train to, somewhere where I could escape from the rain, but it seems it is raining everywhere nearby! It is destroying me. I think I am going to buy a tub of ice cream and just stay in all weekend.
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