July 2021

Before July runs away from us, here is how this month went by last year in twenty images.

I’m not pleased with my levels of creativity here in Slovenia at all. I’ve needed three weeks to come up with this post, July for my Calendar 2021. Mostly it’s because my body is using all the energy to stay cool and survive. It happens every year, this time more than ever since it’s hotter than ever.

I’m still in Piran on the Slovenian coast. We’ve had some smoke from the biggest forest fires in Slovenia of all times. When it covered the sun, the scenery turned apocalyptic.

The sea is the hottest it’s ever been, nearing 30 degrees C. The jellyfish still don’t sting, luckily, and there are days when none is around.

I’ve just returned from walking bestia. Father walks him in the morning, I in the afternoon. It’s 6.30 pm and frankly, it’s too hot to walk. Now I write this wrapped in my big towel, because the air-conditioning is a danger to my back. It’s hard to find a happy middle.

And now let’s jump to last year.

Since before July 19th, when last year uncle brought me to Slovenia, I didn’t take any photos worth mentioning, all today’s photos are from the last ten days of the month: First Ljubljana, the capital, where I had my first vaccine, and then the coast.

Our garden in Piran was very much greener than it is this year. Luckily there is some rain promised for tomorrow. Good, because there is already talk of the tap about to run dry.

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  When your city builds something new and your visual memory must rearrange.

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  The central train station has been the same since forever.

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  My primary school is more colourful than I remember.

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  I was stunned to notice this engraving at the side of the most famous monument in town.

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  This is the downward view of my childhood. My bare feet go in.

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  To Piran now. You know this view from the top of my blog. Almost paradise.

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  This view now, a year later, would show that all this grass is yellow and dry.

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  I love it how everything flies and flutters in this garden.

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  A pavilion spotted by the road.

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  Pink on yellow.

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  Our little beach from the dog-walking path.

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  The view towards the port and the peninsula.

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  In Slovenian a shark is called a “sea dog”. Luckily, they are only on the walls.

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  Another happy sea dog, even though he doesn’t enjoy swimming now that he is grown up.

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  Lots of such views. These narrow alleys offer some breeze but also absorb the heat.

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  Another lovely arched view.

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  One of the best things I have eaten in Piran. The restaurant is called “Pirat”.

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  Dad made the syrup, mom’s cousin made the cake, and the garden made the tomatoes.

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  The view of another Slovenian coastal town, Izola.

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  My happy travelling buddies: uncle and bestia.

Previous months of 2021:

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June

June in previous years:

• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020