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Entries from January 2007

The skydiving grandma

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

This is not a news story about a lady who was given a gift voucher to do a tandem jump. No, no, this actualy my mother Nataša Hacin, who is, by the way, also a grandmother, who bought herself a skydiving course here, in Slovenia, and actually finished it the next year when she passed [...]

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Is this 21st century plumbing?

January 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

A colleague of mine a few years ago took a business trip to the United Kingdom and upon his return he described what was his experience like. And he didn’t even complain much about the food (you should see the food we get in Slovenia) but what he just could not understand was the British [...]

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The ghost B&B

January 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I had some business to attend to in the UK at the end of last week and I made a reservation with a bed and breakfast near the village of Cheddleton in northern England. As the booking was done just under two weeks prior to my arrival, I didn’t think it necessary to re-check. But [...]

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Freezing on Prešeren’s square

January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The most popular Slovenian rock band appeared to be intending to miss the Slovene capital Ljubljana from its concert venues. They actually started their tour in Ljubljana, but only for a selected crowd of fans chosen from their online forum. This was rectified on December 27th 2006 with a concert on the Prešeren‘s square at [...]

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