Thursday, June 21, 2012

Gostilna Rok, Krtina, Slovenia

Gostilna Rok - not very well known, almost hidden. A hidden gem nonetheless. OK, some polishing still needed, but no regrets even if you stumble upon it by chance. Great service, great shady terrace for hot summer days. And summer it was: day 1. Hot day 1.

Cees Nieboer - HeRoes group founder and owner and LearningPaths representative for EMEA, Dutch native, Haag born, Rotterdam raised, father born  in Indonesia, used to work for IBM years ago in AS/400 marketing, later IBM leasing agency, played and was tennis instructor in Brunei, ISO9000 certification consultant job - mostly via API - had him travelling a lot, moved to Dubai for 11 years, golf HCP 14, Lumina Learning also in portfolio, just finished Have A Nice Conflict, has 4 kids and 1 granddaughter and will one day totally devote himself to animal welfare - establishing shelters. Long live cats and other animals in need.

Rihard Rifelj - business development manager at HeRoes, Novo Mesto born and raised, redeveloped Dolenjska accent, not related to Matej Rifelj, knows his family tree all the way back to 1620, EF graduate and AIESEC Alumni member, Cotrugli Scholarship contest finalist, read Skok v Smetano, in free time works in wineyard, adores home produced Cviček and will one day put all his talents and efforts into promoting Krka tourism - Cviček included. 

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