The Js are Silent

On Saturday, we took a train to a town called Ptuj (pronounced p-too-ee) in Eastern Slovenia, along the Drava River. Normally a quiet riverside town like many others around it, the place goes berserk for its version of Carnaval, called “Kurentovanje.” To quote Lonely Planet, this is… “…a rite of spring and fertility that dates…

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