Happy Matic birthday

Today celebrates my kind, helpful, inquisitive travelling uncle Matic. Let’s see what the past year brought him and us. Before the pleasant memories, let’s have a look at Piran on the coast of Slovenia as it was in November when you were there and sent me these photos and more. The sea decided to throw

Thursday Doors gifts 11/1/24

No photo in this post was taken by me. Let’s start the new door year with door gifts from Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, Mexico and Portland, received from four contributors with much gratitude. But first, let’s see our new Thursday Doors challenge badge, designed by the Italian in the USA whose blog is called in primo

Complete calendar 2022

Seven is a good number. After six years, here is my final calendar post. Let’s file the year 2022 away, one photo per month. Throughout the past seven years, every month I looked back a year and collected twenty most representative or merely favourite moments from that month. At the end of the year I

Auguri, amore!

Another year has passed and once again your birthday aligns with the largest holiday there is, as is only proper. Also like every year, let’s have a look through the past year in photos. My May birthday we celebrated in the LINA bistro in Castelnuovo di Porto, owned by your elder daughter and her boyfriend.

Best of Thursday Doors 2023

Here is a selection of favourite doors from nine countries as posted on Thursdays this year. Before we leave on a three-week doorliday, I set about choosing some of my favourite doors from all the Thursday Doors posted in 2023. Doing this I realised that my most often used gallery format ceased to function properly.

September 2022

This month my look back to same time last year brings ten photo couples to show how last September I came from that, which is Slovenia, to this, which is Tuscany. By pure chance I selected ten photos from Slovenia and ten from Italy. Clearly in my mind they are well balanced. Then I noticed

Last August photos

The middle of the month is the right time for the last August photos, as a proof that I haven’t forgotten about Bushboy’s challenge. Let’s start with the last August photo on my camera: full moon above Izola with sister and friend after the concert by Slovenian singer Brina with her band. It was wonderful.

Thursday Doors 7/9/23: Summer in Slovenia 2023

This post is a day late but my Slovenian summer is coming to a close and I wished to make a compilation as a memory aid. Here are my people and places and doors to last me through the year. I find it hard to believe that my stay in Slovenia is almost over already,

Basket

A post as a cheer to our guys in Japan. After their first victory, team Slovenia faces Georgia tomorrow at the World Cup. In Slovenian, bolj – pronounced more or less like “ball” – means “more” or “better”. Mother came up with basketbolj al manj (basket more or less) and I added basketbolj kot nič

August 2022

Welcome to my last year’s August in twenty images as part of my Calendar 2022 series. It was spent in Slovenia just like this year’s. There were food, drinks, a jazz concert, a stroll with my sister around the urban cityscape of Ljubljana which I miss, our annual garden card tournament, and lots of chilling