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...
A Firsthand Guide to Bled Slovenia
The 2018 editions of Firsthand Guide to Bled, Slovenia are now available in both paperback and Kindle format. The Shorter Edition has the basic information...
Restaurants and Cafes in Ljubljana – some suggestions
A friend of a friend emailed me. He and his wife were going to Slovenia for a holiday and he would be grateful for any...
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...
Hotel Review: Grand Union Hotel, Ljubljana
Union is a stylish, very well maintained hotel. The new room was large, fresh as a daisy and had a view of that wonderful building...
Tržič
I spent about two and a half hours wandering around the old Slovenian town Tržič, which is a short drive on the highway from Bled,...
Ljubljana Christmas Lights
As Dawn and I stood on the Triple Bridge on a damp Friday evening, there were voices around us from well beyond Ljubljana and Slovenia...
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...
Walk around Lake Bled November 2016
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Dej še’n litro
Dej še’n litro – the name does not translate well in Bing or Google translators. Actually it translates as nonsense, which is probably appropriate. At...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This week’s Slovenia & Balkan Weekly News Briefing is ready
The highlights of the main stories from the Balkans...
Laibach’s Ivan Novak (Saliger) talked to Davy Sims in Ljubljana – Podcast
Interview with Ivan Novak also known as Saliger, a founding member of Slovenian band Laibach on their 35 anniversary and on his return from North...
Should a government tell a radio station what records to play and when?
I don’t usually write about music radio even though it was the foundation of my broadcasting career. And while I haven’t worked in music radio...
The Summer of the Mobile Wielding Tourist
Across Europe, across the world mobile Internet access is eclipsing desktop and laptop usage. Mobile phones and tablets are becoming the most common way to...
The world is now watching – and planning to visit
This is a piece I wrote for Slovenia Times magazine, now on their website. ...
Reviews from Festival Bled
Over on the Lake Bled News blogs I have written a bunch of reviews of Festival Bled performances. Here’s the blog....
Reviews from Okarina Festival
Over on the Lake Bled News Blog pages, I have written a bunch of reviews of Okarina performances this year. There are a couple...
On the eve of the Bled Strategic Forum
The black limousines with the darkened windows are heading up the hill to the Vila Bled again today. The BMW shuttle service brings some of...
Profile – Leo Ličof Founder And Artistic Director Of The Okarina Festival
“I considered myself, even today, but back then when I was younger, to be a rare bird.” Leo Ličof is founder and artistic director of...
Festival Bled – SLOJazz
Read more at www.lakeblednews.com Who was the kid on vibes? During Festival Bled, I have listened to and enjoyed more chamber music than I guess...
Cello Attacca – Closing concert for Festival Bled 2015
Read more at www.lakeblednews.com A severe case of cello twirling broke out last night in Bled Castle during the final concert of Festival Bled. The outbreak began...
The Past – The Present – The Future; Violinists under Profs. Robert Szreder and Piotr Jasiurkovski
Read more at LakeBledNews.com The two great producers of dance music Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards penned and produced the classic Sister Sledge song Lost...
DO-RE-ME At Bled Castle – Festival Bled
There is a different excitement in the air when young people are the performers and when children make up a significant portion of the audience....
East Meets West – Young Korean Violinists ed by Prof. Saewon Suh Festival Bled
It is the jaw dropping brilliance of these young musicians that makes nights like last night so memorable. Festival Bled continued Wednesday night as a...
The Best of Fritz Kreisler – looking to the past and the future at Festival Bled
Originally in Festival Bled Diary Read more at www.LakeBledNews.com Read more at LakeBledNews.com It was pretty close to standing room only in the Grand Hotel Toplice,...
KUD Dobreč Concert – Festival Bled Festival Hall Saturday 4 July
Bled, Classical Music, Festival, Festival Bled, Jazz, KUD Dobreč, Music, orchestra, tambura...