I began my blogging ‘career’ years back, in Finland, with a blog called ‘Kahdessa paikassa’, translates to ‘In two places’. It appeared in a local online newspaper in the countryside and my posts were about living in and loving my two homes: rural Bromarv and Helsinki (capital city of Finland). I moved away from Finland…
Category: Slovenia
Wild April notes
Last time I told you I’d be doing another Rewild Your Life in 30 days challenge with my daughter. It’s an online challenge that encourages one to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per day outside, whether it’s just under the open sky or actually in the wild nature. This was my third time participating,…
One down – 11 to go
It’s been a month since the start of the project. Cutting down, living green, tuning into slow and simple. It’s been more “successful” than I anticipated. The last three weeks we’ve been staying in Bosnia, up on the mountains, living in a big loghouse heated by wood, surrounded by deep forest. We weren’t planning to…
Why green Slovenia isn’t Green?
During the weekend I watched Krzysztof Kieślowski’s trilogy, Three Colors, once again. It got me thinking of colours and politics. According to Wikipedia Mr. Kieślowski’s films’s blue, white, and red refer to the French flags colours. The story of each film is loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of…
For the love of books – and sharing
I love books. I really enjoy holding a book, reading one, finding one for the first time. I love the feel of flipping the pages, the touch of paper, I love to read the back covers, to be in awe of the front cover design. I love to nest in an armchair, with a pile of…
Snow falling on Ljubljana
It’s a Tuesday. Snow’s falling, though it’ll not stay on the ground, not yet, in downtown Ljubljana. Today one cannot see the climate change in action. It seems like a typical December afternoon for Slovenia. Being from the North, I’m loving it, just looking at how the view is transforming, saluting the winter, welcoming the…
Mount Rewild 