Gostilna Štorklja, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Gostilna Štorklja - European, Chinese, fusion. Close to maternity ward, hence the name. Popular with students. Good location, good food, recommended.

Maja Bresjanac - Teacher and Scientist at Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana, born in Čačak, parents architects moved to Celje and later Ljubljana, where she quickly adapted, picks dialects on the go, her father had five brothers and all had only sons, Bresjanac name origin linked to village Bresje in Kosovo and an alleged dispute between a particular head of Stojanović family and a particular Turkish agha over a beautiful daughter a long, long time ago, she recently gave a talk at TEDxLjubljana, neuroscience is her field of work, play and joy, wanted to be neurosurgeon, but being a female is still too big of an obstacle in male dominated neurosurgeons fortress, research proved somewhat easier in that regard, but with lots of room for improvement, used to practice fencing, tapestry, Irish dance and Argentinian tango, now hiking, biking and kayaking, some of it with her daughter, is slowly reading through Opium, totally recommends Gödel, Escher, Bach and will one day - through initiatives like  Sinapsa - raise Slovenian brain awareness and neuroscientific   community even further. For the benefit of the society at large.

Next in line. A good chew.

Burja, Portorož, Slovenia

Burja - excursion and dinner party boat in Piran bay in Slovenia. Well known for years to all convention goers in Bernardin - this time for DSI2012.  Try it at least once, but don't expect too much. Fish, wine and wind. And usually good company.

Andrej Grobler - born in Kranj, Austro-Hungarian roots with many unrelated Groblers in Netherland and South Africa, worked for IBM in student years, electrical engineer and economics post graduate, once AEGEE, now LesAnciens member - which links him to his present Russian wife,  worked for Zavarovalnica Triglav, Steklarna Hrastnik, Abanka Vipa and now Crea Plus, scout, traveller, on 9/11 could not go to Hawaii so he ended up in Bali, 2 kids, recently read The Book of Negroes and Hribci and will one day teach unprivileged Slovenes to catch proverbial fish while running his bed&breakfast in Hawaii. With real fish. 

Andrej Guštin - born in Koper, family roots from Slovenian surroundings of Trieste, physics graduate as there were no entrance exams, economics post graduate, subtle discouragement by professor plunged him into world of finance, worked for Abanka, Zaslon, Hermes Softlab, Crea and now Crea plus/pro, proud owner of RV, loves scuba, fishing and badminton, recommends Peter Florjančič's Skok v Smetano and Jacques Cousteau's Silent World, 2 kids, wil lone day run a diving center, have more with less and maybe run a marathon.

Stojan Košti - Prlekija roots from the only Košti family in Slovenia, born and raised in Ljubljana, FOV post graduate in three stages, had a restaurant and is now in IT at Temida, mountain climber, karate fighter, acrobat skier and avid sailor, recently read One Day, and will one (other) day sail in Carribean and then some. Like Tomaz Pelko on his Heron right now.

Boccaccio Dravlje, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Boccaccio - picestavracija (pizzestaurant). Two locations, both very nice places. Recommended. Whole grain pizza dough included.

Andrej Šolinc - owner and sales manager at Klaro, grew up in Tržič, known as a big pizza buyer as the whole company would buy/deliver on his name from Hallo Pinki, started FRI, switched to FOV, worked for Didacta and Infos, has a 1 year old kid, is a big pizza lover and a regular at Azur, where they always order Radičeva pizza with draft Erdinger beer, also wine aficionado, co-organizer of Slovenian Wine Festival, just bought new kitchen and will go from zero to chef, Rotary and BNI member, reads a lot - recently Propad civilizacij and A Storm of Swords, started running - influenced by Wega blog who recently bough a pair of On Cloudrunners. One day he will teach in school, while still be involved in sales and business development and wood related business will not be far.

Disclaimer: it was another of those intense debates, so the photo at the place did not happen and I had to steal it from his FB profile :) 

Oštirna, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Oštirna - a nice place near Gospodarsko Razstavišče Exhibition and Convention Centre. Serving also business lunch regulars from Slovenijales office building, majority owned by Zavarovalnica Triglav, the biggest insurance company in Slovenia, which has new website, done by Klika, which was recently bought by Sportradar and where Matjaž Pečan and Aleš Rosina work, who are also members of TEDxLjubljana team, where Miro might appear some time in the future.

Miro Lozej - DBA at Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, studied math and felt non linear systems topic was not covered enough, knows the importance of Joel Barker's paradigm shifts, recommends the book Chaos, is very much interested in chaos non linear systems theory and is convinced we should raise awareness about it significantly, to decrease entropy and paradoxically instil more predictability and rationality. One day he will lead the efforts to put significant emphasis on quality chaos education in schools, so that we will one day better understand know what's happening around us and what to do about it.