Martin McDowell's Blog

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 [...]

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Back in Slovenia for a few days and just to let you know about the temperature difference: Haverfordwest yesterday: 10°C Ljubljana this morning: -7°C Enough said. I literally do Feel Slovenia. Mind you, it was also pretty cool to just drive over the Italian-Slovenian border without having to stop and show your passport/ID.

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Image via Wikipedia Although this time I flew instead of drove to Lubljana it still seemed like it took ages, well in fact from the minute I set of from Johnston it was 8.45 AM and it was 8,45 PM hwn I arrived in Ljubljana, well Gradišče, to be more precise. So it took 12 [...]

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Well, this has happened much faster than the last time I tried this, of course, using another broadband provider certainly helps and the key is probably in the name as well: the company’s name is Fast. They sent me a mail on Thursday tellimg me the connection is up and running since 8.09 AM. I [...]

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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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