Slovenia
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Music I like, Slice Audio Playlist, Slovenia
Around the World – 10 & 12 April 2022
SliceAudio and FerryFM, and Radio Larne, and Armagh City Radio play-out Around the World on Sundays from 10.00 pm – midnight local time. The show is also available Tuesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Lisburn’s 98 FM, Bangor FM and Down Community Radio.
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Bled Slovenia, Music I like, Slovenia
Video for today – 14 November 2019
One of my favourite bands in one of my favourite places Larkin Poe, Okarina festival Bled 2019
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Bled, Bled Slovenia, Bled Stories Podcast, Lake Bled, Slovenia, Tourism
Stories from Lake Bled Podcast Index
This is a list of the podcast episodes for Bled Stories - stories and people from Lake Bled.
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Bled Slovenia, Lake Bled, Slovenia
PEOPLE IN BLED – Domen Kalajžič – Founder of 3glav Adventures
As you walk up the hill out of Bled along Ljubljanska cesta, on your left there is a small green shack. It is filled with the stuff of adventures. It attracts your attention because it looks a little out of place, perhaps a little out of time. It belongs here, but did it come from somewhere else? There is nothing like it in Bled.
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Bled, Bled Slovenia, Lake Bled, Slovenia
A Firsthand Guide to Bled Slovenia – Slovenian food
This is a very small selection of items you might see on a menu. If you are a bit more hesitant about trying new tastes, give these a go as an introduction.
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Bled Slovenia, Lake Bled, Slovenia
A Firsthand Guide to Bled – Bars and restaurants
Please note: this is the 2018 edition and might be out of date. I am in Bled (September 2022) and updating this page. As of today (18 September) some places have been removed as they are no longer open. I will continue to update over the next few days.
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Total Slovenia News
A new English language news and current affairs website Total Slovenia News has recently launched.
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Food and Drink, Lake Bled, Slovenia, Slovenian Wine
Slovenian Wine – Wine Tasting and Wine Routes
There are two places to enjoy wine tasting sessions in Bled and three major wine growing regions in Slovenia to drive through.
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Food and Drink, Lake Bled, Slovenia, Slovenian Wine, Wine
Slovenian wine: what to drink, wine traditions, wine growing regions, St. Martin’s Day events
Wine is one of Slovenia’s biggest secrets. Celebrated every November on St. Martin’s day, only 6% is exported. Not to be missed on a visit to Slovenia
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Bled, Lake Bled, Podcast, Podcasting, Slovenia
Bled Stories podcast: Mikame Craft Shop
In the Firsthand Guide to Bled Standard and Special editions, both this and last year, I interview some of the people who make Bled the town it is. Now, I plan to release some of those interviews in a new podcast; Bled Stories.
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Balkans, Music I like, Slovenia, Travel
Music walk around old town Ljubljana
I was in Ljubljana on a Saturday morning to record some of the sounds of the streets. Particularly the street music and the other music seeping out of buildings in the historic old town.
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Antiq Palace Hotel review
Ljubljana is one of my favourite cities in the world – and I have been to many. I’m lucky to visit Ljubljana quite often these days. The city has a number of very good hotels and I have stayed in several. But now I have found the Antiq Palace, it’s unlikely I will try any others.
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Patetico: from Slovenia and cooler than the Sava during the spring thaw
I found this band and album by jumping from link to link, suggestion to suggestion. starting with Laibach, through to Melodrom and the next step was Patetico. It looks like […]
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Slovenia & Balkan Weekly News Briefing 29 May
As the paint splattered, “Colourful Revolution” continues in Macedonia, and in part as a response, the country’s President Gjorge Ivanov has revoked pardons for 22 of 56 politicians, which sparked the protests. Image: Twitter/Balkan Newsbeat
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Slovenia & Balkan Weekly News Briefing – Week Ending 22 May 2016
In addition to the news this week former Bosnian foreign minister and ambassador to the United Nations writes about countries unmoved by the Sarajevo siege ... Image: By Christian Maréchal - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6369728
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Slovenia & Balkan Weekly News Briefing – Week Ending 1 May 2016
The Eurovision Song Contest is but 2 weeks away and the non-musical pseudo political rumbles have begun. Sympathy, please for the people of Romania who will neither be represented on […]
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This week’s Slovenia & Balkan Weekly News Briefing is ready
The highlights of the main stories from the Balkans
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The world is now watching – and planning to visit
This is a piece I wrote for Slovenia Times magazine, now on their website.
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Interviews, Lake Bled, Slovenia
Profile – Vlaso “Dax” Dakskobler Of Vila Ajda
Vila Ajda is one of the grand houses built in the 18th and early 19th century that are dotted around Lake Bled. It now houses one of the best restaurants […]
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Right place – wrong time
I am in the wrong place. Doing a little survey of the Bars in Bled … (how dare you suggest I’m on a pub crawl. This is for journalistic purposes …honest!). […]
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Back to the Blog
I must confess I have not paid much attention to this blog over the last … well, a long time. When Dawn and I went to Slovenia in June 2014, […]
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Bled, Creative, Slovenia, Social Media, Social Media, Twitter
Twitter Scheduling as Radio Programming
It is worse to drive people away than to fail to attract them in the first place.