The Js are Silent

By Krista On March 1st we bid farewell to the furnished AirBnB that served as our landing base for the first month in Ljubljana and moved into our apartment. After almost four years of ownership and many months of planning, we are so happy to finally be able to live at Peričeva ulica 7. It’s…

By Rory This last week was a big one. I started the Slovene language immersion course on Monday–the class goes 9 to 12:30 Monday through Thursday, then Friday is a conversation group, alternating with some sort of activity or field trip. On Friday we’ll go to the LJU zoo. I hope it’s not one of…

Author: Krista February Sundays in Ljubljana are very quiet. Very few to no tourists and most commercial businesses are closed on Sundays with the exception of cafes, some restaurants and lekarnas (pharmacies), gas stations, and a bakery chain called Perkarna which have very nice seeded rolls. In fact, some businesses are also closed or have…

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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