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Lamb, twice

Klemen Košir, 2. 11. 2018

At the beginning of last month, I moved to Vrhovci with my family. We arranged our new home, next to the creek of Mali graben and slowly started to ex ...

ZIMBABWE: Poor countryside? Not at all!

Eva Borin, 19. 10. 2018

Can you imagine sitting on a bench in a shadow in a small village in the middle of Sub-Saharan Africa at this very moment? The air is warm and dry. Th ...

The aloneness of silence

dr. Petra Draškovič Pelc, 5. 10. 2018

I’ve started to notice that perhaps the most “personal” thoughts find a way out of me when the weather isn't the nicest. A sunny afternoon, when ...

The Pag treasure

Arne Hodalič, 28. 9. 2018

When my cell phone, which was semi-intentionally hidden away somewhere so that I would be as difficult to reach as possible, rang (again!!!) on holida ...

The Walker spur

Tomaž Jakofčič, 21. 9. 2018

There are walls and routes that have a special status in global alpinism. A sort of evergreen alpinism. Even though they were first climbed in differe ...

Gran Paradiso—the great paradise among ibex and marmots

dr. Petra Draškovič Pelc, 7. 9. 2018

Literally. We found ourselves in the middle of those mighty mountains completely unexpectedly. We were considering going on holiday the last week of J ...

Impressions from a timeless corner of Romania

Kaja Šeruga, 29. 8. 2018

The “where” is clear enough: Breb is a small village at the foot of mount Gutâi in the remote Romanian region of Maramureș, which hugs the rolling hil ...

The Kingdom of Tonga and its people

Jasna Tuta, 24. 8. 2018

Slovenians like to complain when a postcard from Rome to Ljubljana first goes through Bratislava. How in the world can postmen mistake our little coun ...

Spring memories

Tomaž Jakofčič, 3. 8. 2018

I don't know why I love dreaming about things that are not relevant at the moment. In the summer, I dream of winter, when I ski I’m thinking about cli ...