The idea was simple: spend February 8, Slovenia’s Day of Culture and a national holiday, getting acquainted with three of the country’s autochthonous grape varietals….
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25 Snapshots From a Day Trip to Hel
More specifically, 25 snapshots from Poland’s Hel Peninsula, a 35-kilometer long stretch of sand bar that juts northwest to southeast between the Bays of Puck…
Turkey’s Hakkari Province, From the Air
Here are a few shots for the In Transit series of what I believe are the still snow-covered peaks of the Cilo-Sat Mountains in the eastern…
Slovenia Day Trips: The Summit of Mt. Slavnik
What do you do when ominously dark clouds gather and thunder claps loudly just a few minutes before you’re about to set out for a…
Five Central and Southern European Mayors Meet in Ljubljana for Sustainability Round Table: Notebook and Images
Mayors of five central and Southern European cities met for an informal round table meeting in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Thursday (March 10) to…
At Slovenia’s Dobova and Brezice Refugee Camps – 45 Images
I spent a large part of today near the Slovenian-Croatian border in the towns of Dobova and Brezice where a logjam of migrants making their…
Slovenian artist on hunger strike to protest lack of arts funding and ‘bureaucratization of culture’
This is Miha Turšič, a Slovenian artist who today spent his 15th day on a hunger strike to protest what he calls the “bureaucratization of…
The World’s Only Ronnie James Dio Memorial – a Seven Photo Gallery
Heavy metal music icon Ronnie James Dio would have been 72 today. I don’t think he could have imagined that a 250 kilogram likeness would…