When you enter Slovenia you leave behind concepts such as traffic jam and you enter in incredibly green valleys. Close to the border with Italy flow the waters of the river Soča (fiume Isonzo in Italian). Once you arrive in Kobarid (Caporetto) you can already glimpse the top of Monte Krn. This area during the […]
A coffee in Ljubljana meeting the Artist Jakov Brdar.
Jakov Brdar in Ljubljana I have been in Ljubljana many times and I have been always fascinated by some small sculptures spread all around the city. Fish looking like piranha on the Butchers’ Bridge, dozens of small faces coming out of a narrow street in the old town, birds, a wolf and many other creatures […]
Also in Italy there was a “Berlin Wall”, did you know that?
Italy and the Iron Curtain Who would have told that? If I had not passed from there, where it was still standing, this would have been a story that I could not tell. His bigger brother, the Berlin wall, more popular and somehow more important, lasted less: “only” 28 years. However, did you know that […]