Cantina Mexicana, Ljubljana

La Cantina Mexicana, un restaurante que os recomiendo si os gusta la comida de dicho país. Además, la decoración es preciosa (mexican pop, lo llamaria) y el lugar, inmejorable (Wolfova 4), un pasaje cercano a los tres puentes. Fuimos varias veces y siempre comíamos fuera porque hizo muy bueno el año pasado. Pero merece la pena verlo por dentro
Más info:
http://www.cantina.si/desno.html

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Cantina Mexicana, a recommended restaurant if you like mexican food. Decoration is beautiful, mexican pop, i would call it! And a perfect situation, in the whole center (Wolfova 4), in a place beautiful. We used to go often and we had very good luck because good weather allowed us eating in the terrace. But you must see it inside.
More info:
http://www.cantina.si/desno.html

34 topicals about Slovenia :-)

Lo he encontrado en un blog en internet, es muy gracioso. Son una serie de mitos acerca de los eslovenos. Siempre un poco exagerado eh? (varias frases sobre el alcohol) Y que conste que el autor es un esloveno! :) No se me ofenda nadie, por favor!

I have found it in a blog, and it's very funny. They are a list of topics about slovene. A little exaggerated, but it has something of true :-) A Slovene is its author, I took it from here.
It's not my intention offend anybody

1. Šlivo cures everything from a stomachache to paper cuts.
2. You are well acquainted with “sarma”.
3. You eat everything with “ajvar”.
4. You think mixing Coke and red wine (bambus) is an extremely tasty drink.
5. There is nothing gross about blood sausages (krvavice).
6. Drinking with your parents is normal.
7. Your relatives, especially in Slovenija, do not believe in opening the car windows on a sweltering hot day because of “prepih”.
8. When outside of Slovenia, you fight an irresistible urge to kiss the person you’ve just shaken hands with.
9. You're not allowed to leave the house with damp hair because you're going to become bolan(a).
10. You have to wear copate around the house, even if you have carpeting and it is 95 degrees outside.
11. Your family makes their own vino, medica, or šlivo.
12. You never got to sleep in on Saturday because you had Slovenska šola.
13. Mami is always making you eat.
14. You know how to dance polka and you’re proud of it.
15. Someone in your family can play buttonbox or accordion and is always bothering you to learn.
16. You’ll still drink Cockta to please your family in Slovenija even though it makes you sick to your stomach.
17. English verbs are acceptable if used with the ending "-ati", which makes them Slovenian: "play-ati", "study-ati", “clean-ati”.
18. At the age of 13 you are only allowed to go out of town with your friends for folklore festivals, drinking binges, and dances.
19. Your parents were at the party where you first got drunk and maybe even offered you a drink.
20. Then they waited until the ride home to beat the crap out of you for getting drunk and embarassing them.
21. The majority of your friends are also your relatives, even if they aren't your relatives; because you refer to their parents as "teta" and "stric”.
22. "Kuhovnice" are not only used for stirring when cooking... they are also used by mami to beat you when there is no "šiba" handy..
23. At least once you've told your parents that you'll call the police to report "child abuse" and your parents said "Ja! Samo probaj..."
24. Lunch on Sundays has more courses than Amerikanci have for Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner.
25. Your 13 year old sister can out-drink any Amerikan'c or Irishman.
26. You love "golaž", but don't like bringing it to school or work for lunch because you'd be embarrassed if someone asked you what it was.
27. Vegetarianism is not a concept your parents understand.
28. You smell garlic or alcohol on the old man's breath behind you sitting on the pew in church on Sunday mornings.
29. You never got the "Birds and the Bees" talk from mami or ati when growing up.
30. You are only allowed to vacation in the homeland for a minimum of 4 weeks.
31. Your relatives alone can populate a small city.
32. You’ve worked in the “štale” at your relatives house in Slovenia and the cow smell didn’t even bother you.
33. You know what a "D.P" and a "Boater" are and you frequently call your parents by either derogatory name.
34. You're still laughing your ritka off because you know every single one of these are true.

One of the topics...

Yo creo que en algunos puntos se han pasado y es un poco exagerado...Pero bueno, la verdad es que si redactasemos la lista de topicos españoles tendríamos para dar y tomar y seguramente no exageraríamos...!!!


Y por ejemplo, lo del vegetarianismo creo que no es nada cierto. Yo no soy vegetariana, pero lo cierto es que la comida de este tipo en Eslovenia es bastante más accesible que por ejemplo aquí en España. Para empezar, el tofu de soja vale como una cuarta parte de su precio español.

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I think many of the points are exaggerated...But, well,actually the spanish topic list would be longer and probably we wouldnt exaggerate anything!

And what about vegetarianism. I think it isnt true at all. Im not vegetarian, but certainly this kind of food in Slovenia is more accesible than in Spain. Firstl, soja tofu costs in Spain four times more that in Slovenia.

Bohinj II. Subida a Vogel

Aquí os dejo algunos videos del momento glorioso de subida a Vogel. La calidad no es muy buena pero es que al pasar de la cámara al ordenador nos pierde mucho .

Momento "Subida del teleférico
Moment "Telepheric goes up"

Y por último, las vistas desde el centro de sky-ski
And by last, sight from sky-ski centre.

Bohinj

Bohinj es un maravilloso valle glaciar en el noroeste de Eslovenia, aunque también es el nombre del lago y del municipio en la misma zona. Es un lugar increible. Nosotros visitamos la zona en enero, y debo decir que fue el único día que vi la nieve durante mi estancia en Eslovenia.

El agua del lago era cristalina como no la había visto jamás en mi vida, y me llamó la atención que los patos se bañaban como si nada. Es el lago más grande de Eslovenia, 318 ha y 4'5 km de largo. Se encuentra a 525 m de altitudy rodeado de impresionantes bosques .
En las orillas del lago podemos encontrar dos iglesias, de las cuales yo destacaría la iglesia de San Juan Bautista, una maravilla románica. Si es posible, es recomendable entrar a su interior ya que está cubierta de frescos (cuando yo fui estaba cerrada por restauración y me tuve que comer los mocos).

Si se sigue la carretera que bordea el lago se llega a la estación del teleférico que sube a la cima del monte Vogel. El precio del teleférico es bastante caro (20 euros) pero de verdad, la vista lo compensa. La gente normalmente lo usa para subir a la estación de Sky que hay a casi 1500 metros :) Con lo cual imaginareis que todo el mundo sube con sus skys y toda la pesca...todo el mundo excepto la panoli de Pilar, que como estaba de turismo... La verdad es que todo el mundo nos miraba raro y me sentí un poco ridícula mientras subíamos en el teleférico, aunque me olvidé rápido al disfrutar de las vistas...

Subiendo en el teleferico

Sky centre

Sight from Sky centre

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Bohinj is a beautiful glacier valley in Northwest of Slovenia, it's the lake and municipality's name too. It's an incredible place. We visited the zone in january and I must say it was the only day I saw snow during the 10 months I lived in Slovenia


The water of the lake was the most transparent water I have never seen in my life, and something that called my attention was ducks swimming in the coooold water as anything going to happen. It's the biggest lake in Slovenia (318 ha and 4'5 km long). Wood is all around and its high is 525 m. In the edge, some churchs, I would emphasize San Jean Church, a romanic treasure. If it's possible, you should come in and discover its paintings (when I went, it was been worked and I could see it)

If you keep on the road round the lake, you'll arrive to telepheric station that goes up to Vogel montain. Price of telepheric is expensive (20 euros up and down) but really, the sight that is waiting for you should make you pay it! People uses to take telepheric to go Sky centre (1500 m):)

Sky Center

The sight from sky centre

Sorpresas de Ljubljana...

Sorpresas de Ljubljana...

¿Cuántas nos quedarían por descubrir?

Me encantan los lugares donde abundan rincones secretos...Cuando tras una puerta por la que pasas delante todos los días sin fijarte y que nunca antes habías visto y que un día de repente encuentras por casualidad, descubres una tienda nueva, un café secreto, un patio con mesitas, un pasillo que lleva a cualquier otra parte, un pasaje que te hace aparecer en otra calle...

En Eslovenia había puertas de esas por doquier...Soñaba con encontrar un país de las maravillas y lo hallé...Pero como Alicia, yo también he vuelto a la realidad y a mi (¿?) lugar, nuestro lugar...¿Pero quién sabe qué nos deparará el futuro?

No hay que cerrar ninguna puerta ni dejar de soñar, simplemente tenemos que ser felices con el presente...pero tampoco hay que olvidar todas esas puertas mágicas de mi país favorito...Ni cerrar la Puerta Principal del todo.

pd. A lo mejor parezco cansina, pero precisamente la idea de hacer este blog, era, entre otras cosas, desahogarme y no dar la tabarra a los de alrededor con mi cansinismo...Lo que pasa es que ahora doy la tabarra a otros...:) ¡Lo siento!

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Ljubljana surprises...

How many surprises to discover would we leave?

I love places where there is a lot of secret corners...When everyday you pass by a door that you never see, and suddenly a day, you find, almost by chance, you discover a new shop, a secret coffe, a garden with tables and chairs to stay in, a passage that carries you to any other place, a passage that makes you appear in another street...

Doors like those were common in Slovenia...I had dreamt finding my Wonderland, and I found it...But like Alice, I had to come back to reality, to my (¿?) place, our place...But who knows what the future wants for any of us?

Dont close any door, and dont stop dreaming, we must be happy with present...But dont forget all those magical door of my favourite Wonderland...and dont close the Main Door.