“You are home.” 

STA, 10 May 2018 - Data on the enrolment of children in Slovenian primary schools show that an increasing share of parents decide to put off the start of formal education of their children. Their main argument is that they want to offer their child another year of carefree childhood. 

On days like to today it’s hard to imagine that less than two months ago there was snow on the ground and going out in short sleeves could put you in serious danger of having no fun, and perhaps even no fingers by the dawn. Now it’s all exposed limbs, sunglasses, gelato and lazing by the river, with the inside tables in many cafés and bars almost deserted, left to tourists having second thoughts about not venturing further for a terrace with room to spare, and aged goths hiding from the light. 

In what may the last of the recent series of posts on Slovenia in WW2, at least for a while, this week’s trip to the archives has come back with some of the more striking images of the country near the end of the war and just after. All of these were taken in 1945, sourced from Wikimedia, and are in the public domain, with the photographer named if known.

Made with lots of sugar. 

Local history that’s sometimes too close to home. 

STA, 3 May 2018 - A series of events marking Ljubljana's liberation will get under way on Thursday, centred on the path that traces the barbed wire that kept the city under the lockout during the Second World War. 

Help wine producers empty their barrels ahead of the new season.