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the weather was gorgeous today, cold yet with clear blue skies, so we picked a few caches in the woods surrounding ljubljana for a chance to get some vitamin d, breathe fresh air and take a walk in the leaves.
this is such a beautiful country, my dad says it looks like a bob ross painting :D
happy new year!
on the first day of the new year, we’re at our best intentions. it’s time to look up the lists we made, and make plans to fulfill them as best as possible, tracing deadlines and objectives.
this time around, i’m running our of time to complete my list of101 things in1001 days. may 2010 sounded really far away three years ago, so my dream list included lots of traveling which ended up not happening according to the plans (other places were visited instead), and there are some things that made sense at the time and which now don’t (getting a piano, for instance). i’m focusing on the rest of the items right now, and i want to do as many as i can till then. to start, today we subscribed the economist and i crossed another item off the list. feels good. :)
i’ll be adding other items to my 2010 to-do list. this year, i want to explore slovenia to the last page of our lonely planet book and beyond, i want to go hiking and snowboarding on its mountains. and i want to use the holga more, and start new projects. and…
what about you? any plans or lists? :)
today we woke up to a white city! i feel like a kid in a candy shop! :D
glad we got those winter tires last week! now i need to find some clothes that are a bit more appropriate for this weather…
despite the cold outside, we ventured out for food and pictures of the christmas lights :)
it feels so nice to just stroll around the streets and check out all of the christmas market “little houses” :) they smell like waffles and mulled wine, yum! :)
friends have been asking for piiiiiiictures, but i’ve been laaaaazy to take them. truth is, we really like it here. we’ve visited lakes, castles and thermal spas, drank gluhwein, done some geocaching, and even went to austria! slovenia feels easy and relaxed, and that’s how we’ve been enjoying it. i plan to report on ‘our life on slovenia’ in more detail… but i’m postponing that to 2010 since we’re leaving for portugal next week :)
i took some photos of the karavanke mountains though, because they were the first thing that made us go “wow!” when we got here. on nice days, you can see them a bit from everywhere in the city, and if you climb all the way up to ljubljana’s castle, you can have a really good view at their snowy peeks in the distance.
last friday we had a close encounter with them, while crossing the country on our way to austria (ikea!). they’re magnificent, like a children’s drawing of the perfect mountains!
what was not so magnificent was the 7.8km tunnel we had to drive through to cross them…