Ljubljana In Your Pocket will be published three times in 2008, then six times a year starting in 2009 to reflect the rapid changes in this exciting city. Offering everything from independent hotel, restaurant and nightlife reviews, the guide helps foreign visitors plan their journey from start to end, also providing transport schedules, city, country and public transport maps (in the print guide) and tips on what to see and do.

When visiting Ljubljana, don't miss the chance to see the city's most prominent building, grand old Ljubljana castle up close, perhaps using the funicular to get there. There's plenty else to see and do in town. Make sure you catch one of the events of the Ljubljana Festival, which has world-class performances across the city all summer long. To escape the city, there's no better destination than beautiful Bled with its magnificent lake, views and famous cream cakes – read all about it in the Bled In Your Pocket special.

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Yet another wholecar from the man Files. This one was unfortunately buffed on the windows but you get the picture!

Roid (HA), Gaz (HA) -UK heavyweights on the case at the Hostel Celica.

Plus Crew

? -Near Tivoli Park.

Pistol (Guns), Slay (Guns)

Quiet

Plano

City Rats Crew, Anger, Ezor

CityRats Crew -Streetbombing madness from the rats!

Reks -Near the three bridges.

Chek

Tokio -Metelkova

Taki 183 -????

Taps (?) -OOh yes

Raze

CityRats Crew

Stick

Chek

Schlomo (Germany) -Even streetart gets on the trains here. This birdy thing went all the way down the sides of the train. It was painted with both emulsion and spray.

Mods Crew

Egotrip

Ogre

Mind, Kine

Files, Guns

CityRats crew -Plus some pigeons (Rats and Pigeons..!)

So theres the end of this second slovenia post. Look out for more on GRAFFWARS soon!

Here is a complete list of where to buy the stickers outside of Slovenia:

• Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina Petrol d.o.o (all petrol stations)
• Italy (Word document)
• Germany and Austria (Word document)

(Taken from a live webcam on Kredarica...)

Ljubljana is a beautiful city and the people are very friendly there.

It seemed that everywhere we went, they were expecting us with open arms.

We ate goulash in a medieval re-enactment restaurant that had been recommended to us. It looked really touristy but the food was actually very good. Goulash is not a very sexy dish to photograph but it was delicious and warmed our bellies on this rainy April day.

The girls autographed copies of our CD for fans who had won a radio contest to get their pictures taken with us. They also won a Nokia phone, courtesy of Mobitel, the Slovenian cellphone company that used our track Lawnmower Boy in a TV commercial.

They looped the commercial on the flat-screens at the club (click image to view, in case you've not seen it and are so inclined).

The changing face of Europe: the check-point is no longer manned at the border crossing. We headed back to Italy the next day.

Sorry, for at jeg ikke har blogget noe i det siste, det er jo trossalt sommer og da bruker jeg ikke så mye tid på pc og blogg, *shame on me*. Tiden har jeg ikke bedrevet så mye med egentlig, jeg har bare slappet av og vært en liten tur i Kristiansund etter jeg kom hjem, rett og slett bare chill. Var deilig å komme hjem å bare slappe av, men savner Slovenia veldig mye. Var uvant å komme hjem til Norge og ikke bli servert mat til enhver tid, bli servert drikke, slippe å rydde/vaske selv, re opp sengen selv osv, har bare hatt det luksus. Og det liker man.

Jeg har en del å tenke på fortiden også, tror jeg skal gi opp lovelife og gutter fo'real, man kommer jo ingen vei uansett. Er forvirret atm, ganske så forvirret. Jeg vet jeg må ta et valg, men det valget er så utrolig vanskelig. Jeg vil jo ikke såre noen av dem. Update: Nå har jeg værtfall ikke noe valg å ta. En person gjorde det "vanskeligere" for meg. Så nå forblir jeg singel : D

Har også en del planlegginger og gjøre, iogmed at jeg skal pusse opp hybelen min til pappa, eller jeg kan flytte nede i hybelen til bestemor å få borteboer stipend da. Men jeg vet ikke. Kanskje bedre å bo til pappa på alle måter, men vi får se hva jeg gjør. Gleder meg vertfall til neste fredag, Mamma drar til Tyrkia, og gjett, uten meg! Greit jeg har vært i Slovenia nå, men hun kunne unt meg en liten ferie til syns jeg. Men hun lovte å shoppe ting til meg da. : D Får bare leve med det, og kanskje heller få besøk ellernoe. : ) Veldig bra.

Men en ting, dette bilde betyr mye for meg u know;

Kommer værtfall til å savne deg, tusen takk for at jeg fikk møte deg å bli kjent med deg.
Det gjorde turen min til en av mine beste ferier ever. <3 ljublim te. zgresite te. < 3

Har dere vært på noe ferie søtiser? ; )

Opening of exhibition Nuclear devastation in former Soviet Union by author Robert Knoth. Fotopub Festival, Narodni dom, Novo mesto, Slovenia. On the picture Chris de Bode art director of Fotopub Festival.
Photo: Alenka Peterlin

Talk of Robert Knoth about his project Nuclear devastation in former Soviet Union. Fotopub Festival, Novo mesto, Slovenia. Photo: B5

Talk of Robert Knoth about his project Nuclear devastation in former Soviet Union. Fotopub Festival, Novo mesto, Slovenia. Photo B5

Tuesday was a rainy day again, so we discussed a lot, view a lot of portflios. i also had a talk on Identity on Internet, what is it, how do we build it and why is it useful. I received really good feedback. I'll published it on Internet next week. Unfortunately I missed the opening of Robert Knoth's exhibition, because on Sunday there was a mild hail rain, so I had to spray our vineyard again... Human footprints indeed!

Steve Forrest talk on his work was really well visited and it was a really funny and vibrant talk!

Ogre (Guns) -My Favorite windowdown from the trip!

Acab (Zek) -slightly dogged unfortunately...

Guns, Files

CityRats -These guys were seriously up! This is in the busiest part of the old town at night next to the Ljubljanica river!

Morks -At the hostel celica. Crazy detailing and style!

Files, Secse -Secse was really up on the Slovene trains.

Horny? -At a football pitch next to Tivoli Park.

Acab (Zek) -Production with Mush (uk)

Files -More and more and more!!!

Cook (QSMD) -Serious style! Shame about the buffing...

Rouge? -Another Burner.

Files

Mush

Scare (SWS) (uk)

Pistol (Guns) -Massive chrome at the Celica Hostel.

Sonic -Nice throw!

Pegasus -I had seen this on the net before I went to slovenia only to then see once I was there!

Cong (Guns)

Secse

Files -The slovene train cleaners dont seem to care about the graffiti on their trains. They only clean the windows, the train names and the serial numbers off and then things stay!

Plus1

Guns -Lightning-Bolt freshness.

Guns

So that is it for this post! There are even more to come but I'll need another evening to get that sorted so enjoy these for now! ...and go to slovenia if you can! Its an awesome place!

I kept walking towards a campground.  It took over an hour probably and I was lugging my pack.  Sucked.  I got to the camp, and asked if they had any tents to rent.  No.  Shit, that was frustrating.  Then I turned back towards town, facing another hour walk, when I saw this sheltered beauty: a wooden canopy bus stop.  I set up shop and had a good night's rest.  The rain came pouring down.  I was happy I wasn't in my crude tarp tent.

I got kicked out of the bus stop at 6:30am when a cop came by.  He said ˝You're sleeping here?˝ I denied that I was although I was completely in the bag.  He told me I had 5 minutes to get out of there.

This is me at the lake.  Really misty beautiful.

Centralna tehniška knjižnica Univerze v Ljubljani ponuja široko zbirko slovarjev in drugih virov, ki so lahko koristni za lektoriranje. Tako so na voljo slovarji za najpomembnejše jezike - angleščina, francoščina, nemščina,.... Do slovarjev je dostop možen tako iz Univerze v Ljubljani kot tudi preko spleta.

Več informacij o slovarjih najdete na spletni strani:www.ctk.uni-lj.si/Slovarji/

The first of the additional three games is a bit of a foray into the unknown, both in venue and opposition. Slovenia are the unlikely hosts but a growing Chelsea supporter base can be found there, and there is some interest in the Reserve team. Hajduk Split are one of the powerhouses of Croatian football and have produced national team legends in Robert Jarni, Aljosa Asanovic, Alen Boksic, Igor Stimac, and current Croatian national team coach Slaven Bilic. Whether the match is against their first team or Reserves is as yet unclear, but it will be a great experience and test for the team.

Man Utd were also due to be heading out to Malaysia to defend the title they won last August. They too have had to make a change of plans, and it suits both teams best to play a fixture at home - Chelsea's most likely to be at Brentford's Griffin Park, with the return game at Northwich Victoria's Victoria Stadium. United have had a fine start to their pre-season, with wins at Burscough (3-1) and Altrincham (3-0). Chief amongst their stars is Brazilian midfielder Rodrigo Possebon, who is a class act pulling the strings in the middle of the park, and developing a penchant for scoring spectacular long range goals.

Further previews and reports on all fixtures will be on this site, as ever. Dates of the fixtures should be confirmed over the coming days, and news of those will be on here too. The Man Utd matches will also be covered by the excellent United Youth.

The concept for this picture was a dream like picture of Severa from underwater. She is also self taught sculpture maker, so I asked her to bring some of her sculptures and I really liked the hand. We were shooting in Atlantis. I made few shots under the surface of water, but then I asked her to do some portraits under the water. It didn't work, because pool water is too aggressive for her eyes, so it didn't work inspite Severa's effort.

For this portrait I bought Ewa Marine underwater case for 300 EUR and I asked Klemen Ilovar to assist me with studio flashes. Unfortunately radio trigger didn't work under water of 1 meter depth, so I was doomed to failure. I asked humbly Severa if we could repeat the portrait in the afternoon somewhere in the nature and she was up for it. Later when I was checking my images I was completely desperate, then I saw this picture above. I thought it was great, but I was afraid to show it to Severa. She liked it even more. She said she is sick of the image of cute singer and she is happy to see her from new angle.

Oh yes,... I'm publishing also some other pictures of her that we took a week early just for a test, but it started to rain.

Nå har jeg ikke blogget på mange dager, jeg sa jeg skulle prøve å få blogget om jeg skaffet meg internett. Jeg har hatt internett men bare caret i blogginga. Sorry for det, men har vært så fint vær. Akkurat nå sitter jeg i lobbyen, chiller og ser på alle personene som kommer inn og ut fra Thai Massage, Innendørsbassenget med boblebad, Fitness Senteret, Treningsrommet eller bare rett og slett utenfra. Det er så kos. Rart å tenke på at det her er den siste, aller siste dagen jeg kan tilbringe her i Slovenia, jeg vil ikke hjem, er så kos her.

De siste dagene har det ikke skjedd så mye, har bare ligget på stranda å solt meg, så nå er jeg brun. Endelig. Naturlig brun. Jeg har også blitt kjent med folk, skikkelig hyggelige folk, Mirko og en annen en som er fra slovenia f.eks, spanderte ei fyll på meg + taxi, skal møte dem idag også, en siste gang før jeg drar. Jeg har shoppet litt, sovet... Ja, er vell det meste jeg har gjort tror jeg. Bortsett fra å ha fått en stk skada fot. ;o

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Igår var jeg en tur i Kroatia og Italia, vi skulle egentlig ikke til kroatia, men båten vi skulle fra slovenia til italia var ødelagt, så vi måtte ta en buss over grensen til Kroatia, og ta båt videre derfra. Var i Venezia, makan til fin plass, men det var alt for varmt. Var 45-50 grader, og det vil jeg si er alt for varmt. Men var herlig da. : ) I Venezia var vi på St. Mark's Place, altså den kjente Markus Plassen, Satt i Gondol, ja, rett og slett så var vi omtrent på alle de kjente plassene. Det var en opplevelse for livet, og ANBEFALES! På båten til Kroatia ble jeg sjøsyk så jeg satt meg ute og ble kjent med Erik, fra Kristiansund. Da vi kom hjem spiste vi middag, gikk på rommene våre å dusjet og etter det gikk vi ute en lang tur langs gaten, og stoppa på stranda. Var koselig : )

1. Kroatia.  2. En kanal i Venezia.  3. St. Mark's Basilica (Markus Kirken).

Har vel ikke gjort så mye mer tror jeg. Idag blir det en liten shopping runde, for det har jeg ikke tid til imorgen. Jeg vil ikke dra! Vil være her lengre, men that's Life. Skal iallefall møte Mirko idag. : D Blir koslig.

Håper dere koser dere der hjemme i norge, og at det er finere vær enn det er her nå. Det PØSregner. ;o

Najavljam otvoritev razstave o dr. Janezu Drnovšku. Razstavljene bodo fotografije 26 slovenskih fotoreporterjev. Kustos razstave je Joco Žnidaršič, organizator Festival Fotopub.
Kraj: Založba Goga, Glavni trg 6, Novo mesto
Čas: Ponedeljek 21.7.2008 ob 19h

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