My days are turning into a severe blur. I have to prepare a 60 minute radio broadcast with a working title "Slovene politics in 2009", meaning I need to listen through tons of footage and browse through tons oaf articles and newspapers. Well, I have to finish it till Thursday, so at least I know it will be done by then. Plus banks and skiing and Egypt and trying to sort it all out before we leave and... winter we had during the weekend is definitely gone. Temperatures have leaped above freezing and cold rain is pouring. Snow is slowly disappearing and... well, ok, I'll stop whining. A few more days...

And I still haven't had the time to start flickring properly, I mean going through your photostreams, commenting, favouriting and all which seems to be thing in Flickr. I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by those first few days, not least because quite a number of people from my f-list also use Flickr. Anyway, the picture I am posting today is a few years old, taken on a lovely mountain just outside Ljubljana. The story connected to it isn't such a pleasant one. Igor's company has a pretty, pretty mountain hut on there and Iggy and I wanted to spend the weekend there. We got there in a total snow blizzard, it was cold as hell and the chair-lift wasn't working so we climbed up the darned mountain for nearly two hours, just  to realise that someone had misplaced the keys. We got a set that could open a nice apartment down at the coast. So, back we went, with heavy backpacks and all. :))))

And picture is a part of Flickr set, called Country, containing various shots from Slovenia. And now back to Slovenia in 2009 and, later on, when I come home sometimes in the evening, I'll take care of my inbox and all notifications that started piling there. Again.

Yes, it was the coldest day in decades in Ljubljana. Temperatures plummeted down to less than -10C/14F and some hills just outside Ljubljana suffered temps as low as -27C/-17F which is really radical for this part of the world. And we got quite some snow yesterday and Sunday was a true winter fairy-tale; sunny, clear, yet really cold. A nice day for a walk. Igor, Robert and me.



Oh, now I can say... the whole set is on Flickr; to be precise here. I might post single pics from Flickr, but I will still post F-Blogs from LJ, because I prefer the way I can handle pics here. :)






( More cold... )

 
Bluish 04, originally uploaded by Tomaz Celestina.

So, I opened a Flickr account and I hope to become disciplined enough to actually upload stuff there and then use pics for LJ. I'll see how it works. So, here's an invitation for some browsing. I've opened three sets now, one of the city, one of the world at close and one of me - just a collection of FYFF posts, gathered together for the first time.

Ljubljana got its first snow today. And it was a really cold, windy evening. And the city is full of lights. So, what was I to do.............








( A load of Ljubljana. )

So, this is the time of the year when the old part of my beloved city resembles a fairy-tale. Christmas/New year's light appeared a couple of days a go and while leaving the office today (yes, it was Saturday and I was working, dammit) I made a little stroll through the heart of the city. It was packed with people, becase tonight is the St. Nicholas night. It's one of the three good men we know here and the origins of St. Nicholas can actually be traced back to early 1800's here. He's the man that brings presents (of course), but... here's an extra. If kids haven't really been good last year, he can also bring them a tiny rod to tell them they should do better. I have to say I really enjoyed this tradition when I was a child and it was really deeply rooted here, way before Sprite, Fanta and Coca Cola brought their own favourite creature into our lives. And shops.

Hi!

I am not sure if you are going to read any unknown person email. But I had to try it.

I want to say a huge THANK YOU for your slovenian lessons through youtube.
Because of them, i repaired a relation with an slovenian girl because of how stupid we are in spain I confused slovakia with slovenia. She was really pissed off, obviously. I had to repair it, it was not nice from me despite i am not so guilty! comeon spain education system sucks!

I decided to learn a lot from slovenia and some words and i found your videos on youtube. Nowadays, that girl and me, we are together. We met each other in london and i visited her in Ljubljana 2 weeks ago, is hard to keep though the distance but someday we will be togehter.

Is the best love story ever, and mainly thanks to you.

Alexis

*****

Well, I am happy. So if you have stuff to repair and if it involves Slovenian stuff, you first aid kit is HERE. :)

I went to buy some food the other day and there was a woman in front of me with a cartful of godonlyknowwhats. Anyway, she started putting her stuff on the tape and the cashier swiftly went about her business meaning the goodies started piling dangerously on the other side of the tape, while that woman still had some half of the cart to unload. So I said to her: "I can help you with that and put it all on the tape." She nearly fell on her arse, she was so shocked. So I did it and after she was finished with paying and all, she still had some honey in here eyes and she said: "Thanks a lot really for being so kind." And when it was my turn to pay the cashier lady gave me a flirting-approving look and she said: "I have never see anyone doing something so nice here."

I was both; flattered and surprised/shocked. Is it really so difficult, even hardly imaginable these days to do something simply kind to a total stranger. Really, people. WTF??? I do such stuff all the time. Just because I am like that. Honestly.