Sunday, February 20, 2011

Dubočica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dubočica - one of the finest restaurants with grilled meat in Ljubljana. Part of Momo group, like Rio Momo and Portal. Totally recommended - all three of them. They've recently had promotion on Slovenian "Groupon" 1naDan with tremendous success - 7538 coupons sold - I was one of them.

Marija Kozin - world traveller, currently finishing her study and contemplating next steps in life, grew up in Škofja loka, had Kawasaki ZZR600 - with one accident - and drives everything, including trucks, used to work at Terme Olimia, Turistica graduate, worked also as bike tour guide in Marburg and in Princeton-Blairstown Center outdoor camp in USA, her blog marijakozin.com is currently offline, but when it was online, it was not accessible in China, while she was cycling 32.000 km to Beijing and back, through 23 countries in years 2006-2008. With a magic wand she would stop all weapons industry, reset human development not to be based on oil capitalism and would prevent lethal children diseases. Granted. In addition she would do the whole Beijing trip again and visit the people that helped her the most on the way - such as Azari family in Tehran, mother Lia Davitaschvili in Tbilisi - and support worthy projects and people such as Eka Machavariani in Zugdidi. That's but a small snapshot, luckily also her TEDx Talk is coming up soon ...

Marija's bike. From her Flickr photo set.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Shambala, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Shambala - chic, top location (not so hidden as the name Shambala - hidden kingdom - implies), a must for Asian-food goers. Recommended.

Polona Žehelj - her first week at IBM Slovenia as STG Sales Operations, used to work for Spark and KPMG, active scout made it to "starešina načelnica" status, knows well Igor Fakin's daughter, recently did trekking in Nepal, began to get serious in her running career and is reading Randy Pausch's Last Lecture.

Ditka Jeran - young researcher at University Medical Center in Ljubljana, used to teach biology, is currently involved in breathing-related neuroscience research, was recently very much involved in TEDxLjubljana events and is reading Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.


Staff that works in this bamboo environment would let us talk even after it was close for closed party preparation. Nice move. Stern warning, mild enforcement :)