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Mini villages

Mini villages

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

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Names of people and places

Names of people and places

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

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Nightly sounds

Nightly sounds

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

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Building our house, part 3

Building our house, part 3

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

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Building our house, part 2

Building our house, part 2

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

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Building our house, part 1

I would also like to share with you the story of how we build our house. It has been quite…

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Preserving vegetables

Preserving vegetables

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

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Maypoles

Maypoles

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

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The Croatian seaside

The Croatian seaside

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

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Lookouts

Lookouts

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

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