Saturday, November 30, 2019

12 Days of Slovenia & Trieste (Part 7): Christmas Market

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In 2018 we made a pre-Christmas excursion to Munich. It was memorable. Munich Tales 2018: Christmas markets are special in Germany, an...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Baylor Family Croatia, Slovenia and Trieste 2019, Chapter 11: In praise of kremna rezina, Lake Bled's classic version of cream cake.

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At the Christmas market. We took the train from Ljubljana to Lake Bled , and began eating pastry. Not exactly, but probably close eno...

Baylor Family Croatia, Slovenia and Trieste 2019, Chapter 10: Ljubljana's grand old train station and the current status of my ghosts.

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Previously, Thanksgiving dinner in Ljubljana. One of the bedrock, greatest-hits-variety stories from my Euro odysseys during the era of...

12 Days of Slovenia & Trieste (Part 6): Of hydropaths and Titoism in Lake Bled, Slovenia.

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Tito's image in Sarajevo, 1987. The overall history of Bled, Slovenia can be perused at In Your Pocket . It's a tourist town in...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Baylor Family Croatia, Slovenia and Trieste 2019, Chapter 9: At Gostilna Pri Kolovratu, a lovely traditional Slovenian dinner for Thanksgiving.

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We'd been walking around Ljubljana on Thursday. For the second time in four years we spent Thanksgiving Day abroad. The first insta...

Baylor Family Croatia, Slovenia and Trieste 2019, Chapter 8: Weird circular Yugoslav garage architecture and an invigorating walk by the river.

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Wednesday had ended with a tour at the Pivovarna (brewer) Union . At sunup on Thursday, something strange happened because the sun actu...