Why you ask? I wish that I could upload pictures, but this computer keeps rejecting my flash drive... sometime soon I will travel somewhere and bring my own computer. However, imagine this... the ride takes about an hour (give or take 10 minutes depending on the wind) from Ribnica to Kočevje... you pass through 7 or 8 small villages, all made of concrete houses that are simple, but covered in plants, and painted all sorts of bright colors. Between each village you ride on the side of the highway that is winding its way through green fields surrounded by mountains. Each town has a little church. Simple, but unique. Sometimes the fields are filled with grazing animals (goats... bears...), sometimes they are sectioned off into smaller gardens, always with bean stalks, sometimes you get close to the mountains and you are just riding right next to a giant forest. However, my favorite part is someway past the half way point (which is honestly a gas station that has a giant cage with a couple of bears inside), and I think that it was this point that made me decide to take the trip again today. There are giant, golden wheat fields... just like Kansas, except for the green mountains flanking either side. And the breeze is always blowing through in just the right way, so that the fields are just waving the wheat (just like KU, except way more like our friends' rendition than KU's wave of the wheat). I'm certainly no photographer, but hopefully my pictures will capture a fraction of the beauty, if I am ever able to upload them.
In other news...
- ALDI's has a European branch called HOFER. Same logo. Today I brought my bikelock just so I could go in... pretty much the same thing, except all of the food is cool European brands...
- My aunt is a really scary driver. Not that I expect much here... people whip around these little narrow roads like they are the same size as in the US. But they aren't. They are about half the size, and they do not care how close they get to you while you are on your bicycle. Several times I saw my life pass before my eyes, but I am just getting used to that here (only a joke, mom). Yesterday, Ančka did about a 36 point turn around, right next to other cars, so that she could get the wrong way on a one-way street. I did not say anything. Not because I didn't want to, but because I cannot translate under pressure.
- I found my plant in Ljubljana on Monday! That is really good news. I collected 26 envelopes of seeds, and am still hoping for 4 more locations.
- Today, I tried a drink called "multi-sola". I am assuming this means multi-vitamins, because it says that it has 100% of your daily Vitamin C, biocin, vitamin E, pantotenskakislina (don't know?), vitamin B6, vitamin A, tiamin, folna kislina, biotin, and vitamin B12. It was 25 cents AND it tasted good. Suck on that, airborne.
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ReplyDeleteI am very jealous of multi-sola.
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