Merry and Happy and Jolly...

Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Hogfather and I agree it's the season to be jolly, the season of holly and of all the things ending in -olly. And wanted to wish you all a jolly New Year, full of travels!

Ljubljana this December

I have to admit I'm one of those Grinches, who doesn't like all the Christmasy jingling. But that doesn't mean I don't like what they do to Ljubljana every December. This year the decorators have outdone themselves again. Here's a couple of snaps I took the other day.

Prešeren square & the Christmas tree

Opera house illuminated with the new bluish light.
(in the early evening it looked stunning, hope you can tell from the photo)

It's all about Euro this December. This greenish monstrosity is part of the promotional feature that is being projected from the city council building to the building on the opposite bank of Ljubljanica.

Otherwise all's well in the land of Slovenia. We are finally getting some winter temperatures. There might be snow in the weeks to come, but there's no sight of it yet. And we've got a new mayor in Ljubljana. He looks like the type of person that will cause a considerable stir.

Slovenian Euros

We're getting Euros in our little country on 1 January. I'm more or less looking forward to it. The only thing I (well we all really) have is that various businesses might raise their prices. Spar was the first to issue a public statement saying this is not going to happen. That's good to know, I like shopping with Spar.

Some of the smaller businesses are less convincing. Like pizzeria Azur next to our radio station. The price of their daily menu used to be 4.13 EUR. That is a rather ridiculous number, so of course now they rounded the price up, no problem there. I mean nobody expected anything else. But they rounded it up to 4.9 EUR! I'm not too good with math, but that's almost 20 percent, isn't it.

If you're interested in Slovenian Euro coins, here's the link.