The Js are Silent

By Rory We’ve been using concerts in nearby cities as an excuse to get out of Ljubljana and explore other places, and recently we made the trek to Bologna, Italy to see “La Luz,” a great band from California. It took us about 8 hours, spread over 3 trains, to get there. If the name…

By Rory To kick off summer, we chose to spend two weeks in Belgium, a country I had been to twice before for only a few days, and Krista only breezed through on the Eurostar once. We had heard good things about Belgium, among them what a great cycling country it is. So we booked…

It has been truly inspiring to see all the photos from the many events held last weekend to send the “Hands Off” message to the world. We heard it loud and clear all the way over here. No protests anywhere near us, but there were a few in other parts of Europe. All is fine…

Us in Budapest, November 2024 Collage of Chester and the view out our window by Angela of Loving Petsitter. Also November 2024. It’s hard to believe it, but we are now ending our second year of living in Ljubljana. It’s certainly a bittersweet time around the holidays–this is the time when we miss our old…

By Rory The seat of power–the Hungarian Parliament building and the Danube River. It’s been about 6 months since our last dispatch–it’s been a busy time with a lot of guests in the summer followed by trips to the U.S. for both of us in the fall. But most recently we took a two week…

By Rory When you live in a country the size of Slovenia, “going abroad” to another country is about as easy as it was to leave Alameda County when we lived in Oakland. In the last few weeks, we’ve made two trips to neighboring countries, neither of which involved more than a few hours of…

Ever since we transferred trains in Celje (pronounced “tsel-ye”) a few months ago and had a few minutes to walk into the Old Town center, we knew we’d be back. With April weather being unpredictable but beautiful, we caught a train back to Celje for a day of exploration. A pleasant less than 90-minute train…

Post by Krista One of the really fun parts of living somewhere very different from California is taking part in different seasonal traditions and activities. February 10 was Shrove Saturday and that meant it was Ljubljana Dragon Carnival time. Held annually, as part of Shrovetide events, it’s a really fun way for the community to…

We have been pretty lazy as of late about sending holiday cards, but we do have a lot of holiday images to share, so here’s another blog post! It’s been almost a year since our move to Slovenia, and our first holiday season here. We’ve heard this country goes crazy for Christmas, and as suckers…

Fall of 2023 has been a busy time for travel, work (for Krista), and (in Rory’s case) looking for work. Krista has been hard at work for a contract she now has from Purdue University, working on similar subject matter as before. Rory has been getting to know the clean energy/GHG reductions/environmental world in Europe,…