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May 12, 2012
by Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
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Park Tabor is alive

Park Tabor is one of the most vivid and interesting places in Ljubljana. In its neighborhood you can find Metelkova, the most popular and fun place to have a good night party, the Celica hostel, where you can sleep and feel the atmosphere of Slovene alternative artist scene. Some renown Slovene artist have their studios here and you can regularly see them creating their artwork. Here you can also find the museum quarter of Ljubljana with its newest Slovene museum of contemporary art (MSUM) and one of the nicest museum in town with interesting programme, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM; free entrance every last Saturday of the month). Here you can have a nice breakfast and rest while your kids play in the beautiful garden with herbs at the coffee place called Kavarna SEM, next to the SEM museum. You have a beautiful view on the Church of Saint Jesus’s heart, which was made by architect Adolf Wagner in neogothic style and it is open for public after 1th of June 1883. In the 19th of June 1883 was church visited by Franz Joseph I, while he was staying in Ljubljana. The church is now in the hands of Lazarians, mission brothers, which are staying in the house nearby on Maistrova street 2.

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The Very Best of Ljubljana

April 27, 2012
by Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
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Best of Ljubljana

Best way to explore Ljubljana: Rent a city bike Bicikelj and explore the streets

Best walking tour: Start at Stari trg, climb on the castle hill by Pot na grad, have the best view on Ljubljana from the Castle Tower, descend by Študentska steza, stop at the Market and have a drink at one of the bars.

Best view: Castle Tower

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Garage sale at park Tabor

April 27, 2012
by dOs
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Garage sale at the park Tabor

In May it is quite common to go through stuff in your basement, attic or garage and make some room for the spring & summer activities. At park Tabor, prostoRož will organize a garage sale, that will be happening from May 12 @ 10am till May 13 @ 6pm. You can sell/buy/exchange old clothes, books, toys, sporting equipment, furniture, electronic devices, vinyl records and other precious artefacts. You set the price. We encourage recycling and solidarity towards people and environment. Typical Slovenian and exotic food will be available while DJs will roll great music.

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2012-03-30 hanami 009

March 30, 2012
by dOs
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Mono No Aware or the Greatness of Cherry Blossoms

Mono no aware is a buddhist term used to describe the awareness of impermanence or the transience of things. As such, it is the essence of japanese sensibility and their cultural tradition. The cherry blossom, especially if we are talking about the blossom of the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus serrulata), also called sakura, it is the spirit of mono no aware. The buds slowly swell and than suddenly transform into painfully beautiful masterpieces. But the blossoms rapidly loose their power and even the slightest winds carry their dead petals away. The tradition of picknicking under a blossoming sakura is called hanami.

The worlds of cherry blossoms bloom in Ljubljana. In the Tivoli park, by the cycling roads, in the random yards, secret places or just somewhere. Enjoy a hanami. Not because of the Japanese, buddhism or out of snobbism, but simply because it is so beautiful.

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The Retro Touch of the Daktari Club 1 | Ljubljana

March 28, 2012
by dOs
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The Daktari Club

The legendary Daktari used to be a club in Ljubljana. In the past, every newcomer used to be initiated: when the bartender realized there was a newbie in the house, he would bring a book in which the newcomer would sign his/her name as a club member. After that formal step, the bartender would ask everybody in the club for a moment of silence, introduce the newcomer, everybody would than welcome him/her with a big applause an than the newcomer would be allowed to order drinks by club prices. Which were super-low. And they were known to have very good pear-brandy and walnut-brandy, besides almost all other imaginable alcoholic mental-releasers. At that times it was allowed to smoke in Daktari and it used to be a paralel universe in which one would easily get lost and get rid of all the burdens of the outside world.

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The Sunbathing Season in Ljubljana has Started

March 16, 2012 by dOs | 0 comments

When you spot a lizard for the first time in a year bathing in the sun on a stone in Ljubljana, you know the season of sunbathing has started. And even before the official start of the spring! One can already sense the tsunami-like euphoria that overflows Ljubljana each spring, which is the best time to visit Ljubljana.

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