There’s a new page in the blog, 2015 project. Like many people, I’m always excited about the new year! I love the empty calendar, the possibilities the year might posses, the freshness. I also tend to look, at least briefly, back on the year past us. Last year we will remember as a time of…
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Two homes
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…
Sarajevo on the streets
A few days ago I was interviewed with my husband by Novo Vrijeme, a Bosnian weekly newspaper, for their English section. The journalist asked about the happenings that led us to meet each other and finally move to Bosnia, and of course about our life here. We discussed the politics, the challenges of everyday life,…
Project notes
As promised in my last entry, I’ll fill you in on how is the project coming along. I assigned myself into this while we were living in a flat near the center of Ljubljana, in a very urban area. We had just renovated our place to meet the needs of a small family, when the…
Goats and donkeys – masters of slow
It’s the fourth week with our goat kids. They were born 22nd of June, the boy and the girl. We were just starting to celebrate the traditional Finnish Midsummer with a bunch of friends at the lodge. I nipped out to say hello to our mama goat, heavily pregnant, but as I got to her,…
Road trip thoughts
A few days ago we drove from Sarajevo to Ljubljana and back. Some 550 kilometers oneway, that takes far more time than the distance indicates. The highway is short in Bosnia, most of the journey is driven on ordinary roads that roll by villages and small towns. Our Defender rumbled between the lorries and the…
On the mountain we shall be
Firstly, sorry for the long silence. There is a reason: I asked in the latest post “What if what’s being thrown at me now, is really me?” As you may notice, the title of the blog has slightly changed. Initially this was meant to be about life in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but as it turns out,…
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…
Living the slow moments
It’s been a week on the mountains. Time to write about slow. Since that’s what this is. Slow. Quiet. Still. We put fire on the fireplace and the kitchen stove. We feed the animals, cook for ourselves, bring more wood in. We play with the baby, carry her around, read books with her, put her…
Sarajevo weather
We’ve been in Bosnia, my husband’s home country now just over a week, visiting my mother-in-law, and joining in on the family celebrations of slava. During our stay I’ve been taking time to read Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers. The History and Future Impact of Climate Change. It’s fascinating, informative, funny, but to no surprise…
Mount Rewild 