Whew, I finally found the time to write something down... I'm having fun here! I saw Kamnik, Ljubljana and Maribor, I discovered traditional Slovene crafts, learned a lot about history and tried some interesting food stuff.
This is a model of a "toplar", which is a type of a drying frame - it's used for drying hay and is a typical Slovene rural architecture. In this size, it doesn't seem too big...
Of course, later I got my picture taken on a real one... You can see me among the still green grass to the left of the picture. Of course, I'm just a small turtle, so you'll have to try really hard...
In Maribor, Tina took me on a stroll through the old part of Maribor, which they call Lent. It's really famous for a summer festival, but we were there in the morning, and nothing much was happening. The most amazing thing I saw there was a 400 (well, going on 450) year old vine, which is entered into the Guinness book of record as the oldest in the world that still bears fruit and gives wine... But only a little, and you can't buy it, you can only receive it as a state gift. One day, when I rule my onn country, I'll definitely come back to taste it!
After all that walking, I got invited to taste a traditional Slovene cake - the "Prekmurska gibanica". It is "native" to Prekmurje, a region of Slovenia right next to the Slovenian border. It is made of layers of walnuts, apple, poppy seeds and cottage cheese, separated by layers of dough and the layers have to be arranged in a specific sequence to make it genuine! Yummy! I need to get the recipe... Although everybody is warning me that I'm to busy to do it and they are speaking about two types of dough to make and spending all day in the kitchen and needing a huge baking dish... I have no idea what they're talking about!
This is a model of a "toplar", which is a type of a drying frame - it's used for drying hay and is a typical Slovene rural architecture. In this size, it doesn't seem too big...
Of course, later I got my picture taken on a real one... You can see me among the still green grass to the left of the picture. Of course, I'm just a small turtle, so you'll have to try really hard...
In Maribor, Tina took me on a stroll through the old part of Maribor, which they call Lent. It's really famous for a summer festival, but we were there in the morning, and nothing much was happening. The most amazing thing I saw there was a 400 (well, going on 450) year old vine, which is entered into the Guinness book of record as the oldest in the world that still bears fruit and gives wine... But only a little, and you can't buy it, you can only receive it as a state gift. One day, when I rule my onn country, I'll definitely come back to taste it!
After all that walking, I got invited to taste a traditional Slovene cake - the "Prekmurska gibanica". It is "native" to Prekmurje, a region of Slovenia right next to the Slovenian border. It is made of layers of walnuts, apple, poppy seeds and cottage cheese, separated by layers of dough and the layers have to be arranged in a specific sequence to make it genuine! Yummy! I need to get the recipe... Although everybody is warning me that I'm to busy to do it and they are speaking about two types of dough to make and spending all day in the kitchen and needing a huge baking dish... I have no idea what they're talking about!
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