This post is just an extension of the comment I gave on on the blog of Michele Neubert, an NBC news producer who has just completed a visit to Ljubljana, Slovenia on the occasion of George W. Bush’s visit to the EU-US summit.
I am also from Ljubljana, but living in Wales, UK at the moment and miss my home time immensely. It is a nice article and we have to take it from the point of view of the reader and her expectations. Slovenia is not the Balkans, only a part of the south comes under it geographically. It was “annexed” to it historically under Yugoslavia.
I used to live in one of those blocks of flats on the edge of the city and they are not as bad as you think. The views of the mountains was sensational and it took me a lot of self control to keep my head in my books while studying to be a vet in the local university.
These buildings is where we live and we are not Switzerland or Austria. Even better, we are Slovenia and these buildings are just one part of our history and architecture and shouldn’t be removed just because they are not picture perfect. They are a part of the history and it would be realy stupid to move everybody out and build them new sightlier accomodation just because the block of flats is to pig ugly. I may be a bit silly but close to Christmas the evening view of the Bratovseva ploscad, where I lived looked a bit like a giant Christmas tree 
Ljubljana – on its way to primetime?
Bollocks.
If you ask me, it’s already there.
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