Author: arlette

Last Monday, I wrote about the (funny) names of Slovenian villages. I got some nice responses and one reader, from…

Oh my God, those names. I really have to dedicate a blog to them :). Slovenians don’t have much imagination…

The nights in Gradenc, the small village where we live, are wonderfully quiet. Like many places in Slovenia, I guess….

Slovenia has a different way of building houses than in the Netherlands. Here, they use large, red blocks with openings…

Well, so the house had been bought, and in short, the plan was as followed: – Demolish the first wooden…

Of course, you have read about my vegetable garden and all the delicious fresh products that results from it :)….

A fun tradition in Slovenia is to set up a maypole, or as it is called here, a »Mlaj«. In…

This blog comes one day later than intended because Bine and I unexpectedly went to the Croatian coast for the…

When you stay in the countryside of Slovenia, which is almost everywhere ;), you will certainly see a lookout somewhere….