Hotel Faraon Celje

In Lipice we go to see very famous Lipican horses. Ok, here is what we remember from the guided tour: the stables were founded in 1850 by the local archbishop, at the moment they have 400 horses which got their for from having crossed small cart horses and other kinds from Czech Republic, Austria, etc.; the majority of horses is white (all are born dark - black, brown, grey - but after 2-3 years they all become white), they have just one horse which stayed ...

... night now), he also tells us about the castle we are going to visit tomorrow. Its fun, we all enjoy it, at the end he gives us his address, we are SO going to send him a postcard!

After her bicycle trip Alena eats everything and more from the dinner her lovely boyfriend prepared for her, the fridge is not working anyway... Then she goes to sleep with sore stomach, who would expect that...

... it, a beautiful spot.



Vesna thinking about old times perhaps...



Then we ended back at Vesna's brother-in-law's place for tea. Ilija. Really friendly bloke. Trouble is I still had another tea appointment at Marko's sister's. But it was still early so I managed to fit both in.

After some soup and a bit to eat near the Slovenian border I got a lift to the ...

... not, I'd be pretty embarrassed there having to use Croatian all the time and not knowing any Slovenian...



This is the actual house where Tito was born... apparently. The whole village has been bought up and it's now a museum village. Normally there is an entrance fee to go into the village but as luck would have it the day we were there it was free.

I suppose nowadays the name Tito ...

We spent April 16-18 in the small town of Lescovec with the wonderful Pevec family (Steph's cousins). This was Steph's second visit to Slovenia and Mike's first. It was a terrific stay and we hope the first of many trips to Slovenia. Steph's cousin Borut was our host. He's quite a guy--full of life and full of pride for his country and family (as well he should be). Mike and Steph

Vabilo na potopisno predavanje POPOTOVANJE OD BANGKOKA DO PRAGERSKEGA Pridruzite se nama pri najinih dogodivscinah iz Tajske, Laosa, Kambodze, Vietnama, Kitajske in Rusije, kjer sva potovala med oktobrom 2008 in marcem 2009. KJE: OS Gustava Siliha Laporje, vecnamenska dvorana KDAJ: Petek, 27. Marec 2009 ob 18:00 VSTOP PROST Vljudno vabljeni! Tina Golob & Teodor Stimec

... the weather got progressively worse and we met with vast amounts of roadworks. Eventually we made it to Celje, and headed for the castle, which had great views over ...

... of us because he said he had never had an American at his house before. Their son was 10 and he could play the accordion so well. He entertained us and apparently he was going to be on TV the next day playing it. Their daughter was six and had just learned how to ride a two wheeler. We sat at a table outside under a bloomed cherry tree. It was so beautiful. The grandfather who also lived there said that he liked me and he wondered if all American girls were as ...

... could have understood the signs in the museum part. They had old books that the monks had written, and they had a habit in a case like the monks would have worn. It rained for the time that we were in the small museum but it stopped when we came out out which was nice. Then we drove a short ways and she brought me to her church that she grew up in. It was adorable and very small. It was surrounded with grave stones. It was locked so we went to the neighbors to get ...

... na MSN spaces verjetno, ker je LAZJE zame, ker mam dejansko computadora (eee que bien!). Zdej nadaljevanje mojih zivljenjskih dogodivscin se bo odvijalo kokr sem rekla na MSN spaces predvsem - upam, da z vec fotkami in manj nakladanja :)KAM PA SPET GRES? Torej najprej bo tole mjcken fotk iz slovenije in tko in pol bo AUSTRALIA BIG TIME! :) aja, ce kdo slucajno ne ve ... da grem ...