Nove poti, novi razgledi New paths, new views

Oljka in Oblak se ljubčkata! :) Olive and Cloud are kissing! :)

Lej, tamle se pa skriva terasa z oljko! :) Look, it's a terrace with an olive tree hiding up there! :)

Stol iz korenine preko 500 let stare avtohtone oljke piranska buga.

A chair made of an over 500 years old indigenous Piran buga olive tree root.

Ha! Tole je pa Miro spregledal. Videl je šele doma na posnetkih in mu je bilo blazno všeč. :)

Ha! Miro missed this cute mailbox. He only saw it in the photo later at home and liked it very much. :)

Kavico sva pila ob pogledu na tole. We drank coffee looking at this.

Ah, Piran, ob vsakem obisku, tudi tokratnem, izvem in vidim kaj novega.

Da sem do zdaj jedla le popke kaper, sadeži pa so v resnici večji kot olive, kdobisimislil!,

ter da od mesta do parkirne hiše vodi alternativna, večinoma

prijaznejša pot, Oljčna imenovana, ki ponuja še nevidene poglede.

Ah, Piran, at every visit, this one included, I discover and see something new.

That till now I have been eating only buds of capers,

because the fruits are in fact bigger than olives, whowouldhavethoughtthat!,

and that there is an alternative path connecting the town and the parking

house, called Oljčna pot [=Olive path], and it offers scenes not yet seen.

Namesto drugega Instead of the second

Zgleda, da tukaj živita Aleš in Andraž. :) Looks like Aleš and Andraž live here. :)

Cerkev sv. Jurija … Church of sv. Jurij [=St. George] …

… in njena morsko modra senca. … and its sea-blue shadow.

Kako nora kombinacija jesensko oranžne trte in ognjenih las tiste ženske. Čudovito!

I loved the combination of the autumn-orange vine leaves and that woman’s fiery hair. Beautiful!

Letos so nama torej ukinili dela prost dan za najina po-novoletna potepanja po obali,
pa se ne dava in sva šla v Piran takoj, ko je bilo spet možno.
Na srečo se lepota ne meni za politikantske igrice in naju je tudi tokrat gostoljubno pričakala.

Till this year the 2nd of January was a work free day here in my country,
but this year they took it away from us, so we had to move our beloved Coast visit to the weekend.
It was beautiful anyway, in Piran!

Uau!

Oh, uau, uau!, če bi na zadnji dan preteklega leta na Šmarki ostala nekaj ur dlje,
bi imela takle nor pogled na ljubljanski ognjemet! [glej št. 37; ogleda pa so vredne seveda tudi vse druge]

Zraven prilagam svoj mnogo skromnejši posnetek nič manj veličastnega,
a precej pogostejšega pogleda - (včerajšnji) zahod.

Oh, uau, uau!, if I had waited on Šmarna gora hill on the last day of the previous year
for a few hours more, I would have witnessed this crazy gorgeous Ljubljana fireworks!
[see no. 37; other photos are worth seeing as well]

I’m posting my much more modest photograph of no less spectacular,
yet much more common view – (yesterday’s) sunset.

Pred- in po-novoletne Before and after New Year's

S sestro sva si po dolgem času skupaj, samo midve, pripravili kosilo.

After a long time my sister and I made a lunch together, just the two of us.

Z enega zadnjih sprehodov v dvanajstki, ko sva na pošti oddala nekaj najinih koledarjev.

From one of the last walks in the Twelve, when our calendars were send away to new recipients.

Najtanjši čips, kar sem jih kdaj videla; spečen po Mirovo. The thinnest chips I have ever seen, baked by Miro.

Ljubezenski zmenek v prednovoletnem Kamniku. A love date in a festive Kamnik town.

Napad na kuhanca od spodaj. :) An underground attack to kuhano vino [=mulled wine]. :)

S tradicionalnega silvestrskega pohoda na Šmarno goro. From the traditional Silvester hike to Šmarna gora.

Pripravljanje silvestrske večerje, začenši s preprosto predjedjo s pršutom, kaprami, olivnim oljem, medom in poprom.

Preparing Silvester dinner starting with a simple appetizer: pršut, capers, olive oil, honey and pepper.

Ker je to kar drag špas, smo si rekli kdaj, če ne za silvestrovo! in za kuharja izbrali Mira, da nam je

za glavno jed po dooolgem času končno spet pripravil njegov slavni biftek v poprovi omaki, ki je požel same pohvale.

It is too expensive to have it many times throughout the year, so we said when, if not now! and chose Miro

to cook for us his famous dish on the Silvester after quite a long time - beefsteak with green peppercorns sauce. Delicious!

Na novega leta dan je bilo sončno! There was a sun on the first day of the new year!

Kaj je bilo prej – škatlica ali praline? :)

Seveda se je bratranec pri načrtovanju in kasneje skup dajanju škatlice prilagajal
dimenzijam čokolatinčkov, ki jih je naredila njegova najdražja, kakopa!

Vse te dobrote sta nama podarila, vse opremljene z nalepkami, na katerih je tudi
znak z njunima začetnicama, ki sem ga pred časom zanju oblikovala jaz. Luštno. :)

Which came first – the little box or the pralines? :)

Of course, my cousin adjusted the measurements of the box he constructed
to these little chocolates that his dearest had made to fit in, what else!

They gave us all these goodies and put the sing with their initials I designed for them once on the labels. Cute. :)

Za sončno novo leto! For a sunny new year!

Naj vas v novem letu pozdravim s posnetki s silvestrskega pohoda na Šmarno goro (kjer po novem ne podarjajo več žganja, ampak med; še boljše, onih se nama je nabralo že kar malo preveč!).

Povratek v dolino je bil sicer krut, ampak na prehodu s sonca v meglo je bilo čarobno. In danes je bilo sončno tudi v nižinah! :)
 
Naš volk pa počasi prihaja k sebi od vseh tistih groznih petard. Juhej!

Let me say hello to you in the new year with pictures from our Silvester hike to Šmarna gora hill (where you get new presents now, honey instead of schnapps; even better - we have quite a collection of the first ones already!).

Yes, the return to the valley was cruel, but it was truly magical, that transition from the sun to the fog. And today, on the first day of a new year, we had it also in lowlands - SUNSHINEEE! :)
 
Our wolf is now recovering from all those terrible firecrackers. Juhej!

Najverjetneje zadnja … Most probably the last …

… prekmurska gibanica letos. Naj vam bo 2013 slastno! :)

… prekmurska gibanica in this year. Let the 2013 be delicious for you! :)

Nekaj prazničnih Some festive ones

Jaz sem samo še za staro šaro, namreč, Dedek Mraz se je peljal prehitro mimo in sem ga zamudila (seveda sem bila zaradi tega s strani Mira deležna posmeha!), tisti foto okvirček (viden na zadnjem posnetku), ki je (mogoče že leta in leta, kdove?) del prazničnega okrasja v prestolnici (in to ne samo eden!), pa sem opazila šele nedavno in še to doma na fotografijah!

No, vsaj kuhano vino sva našla brez problema in tudi najini omiljeni Frks sendvični zvitki so še vedno na istem mestu. :)

I am no better than an old junk, namely, Dedek Mraz [=Grandpa Cold] drove by on his carriage too quickly for me to take at least a bad picture of him yesterday (Miro laughed at me because of that!) and that photo frame in the sky (you can see it in the last picture), I noticed it (plus, it is not the only one!) only recently (even worse: only at home in the photos!) and have no idea how many years? it is a part of a festive decoration in Ljubljana already!

Well, we, Miro and I, had at least no trouble finding kuhano vino [=mulled wine] and the Frks healthy fast food stand is still at the same spot. :)