Adventures of a curious mind

Slovenia is lovely. Our AirBnB is modern, comfortable and comes with a) a welcome drink b) daily breakfast of coffee, juice and toast. The toast is actually a grilled sandwich with cheese and ham. Simple. Delicious. Enough to start any day. We are staying in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia. Our little hotel room…

We had a bit of a late start on Thursday. We were tired after the hiking and the drive yesterday, so took our time getting sorted in the morning. It was pouring rain and the forecast promised more, so we opted to head for an indoor activity – the Skocjan Caves in Karst. The caves…

I would like to begin with a few Slovenian facts. If you are like us, you probably did not know a lot about Slovenia until becoming the recipient of these emails :0) 1) Slovenians love bees. They decorate the hives with art to show the bees the way home (pretty cool). There are 90,000 beekeepers…

We are sitting in the Frankfurt airport, after a rather confusing effort to get us into the Gold Lounge. We did get in, but have been unable to find a way to upgrade from our Economy seats to something a bit more roomy. We will live with it. The whole Croatian airport thing was a…

If you know me, that headline is no surprise. If you are my husband, you may frequently wish it wasn’t. And if you re my employer, it may be one of my more endearing characteristics. I guess we are about to see how this applies to writing a blog. I have been working through my…

The weather forecast has been quite dismal in recent days. Having said that, our experience on the boat trip was that the forecast was never right when rain was promised. Happily, they did not get it right yesterday either. We woke to the forecasted rain. It rained as we got up and prepared for the…

I start these emails each day thinking I don’t have much to say… but then it just evolves. Let’s see where today’s update goes :0) Breakfast. Over cappuccinos we decided to head to the waterfront and go left versus right. Well, we started going right with a plan to go to the puppet theatre, but…

We had our last breakfast in Split with Ken and Cathy. We said our goodbyes with a promise to keep our WhatsApp conversation alive for the remainder of our now divergent trips. Since we had packed the night before, we were ready and on our way to pick up our rental in record time. The…

Starting with the night before – our little AirBnB was well outfitted and our host Marija was wonderful. We took all of her suggestions for our visit to the park. It rained for most of the night, maybe that helped the waterfalls a little. We woke to a cool 8 degrees C and sunshine. Sooooo…

This year we maxed at 2 events for Vancouver Cocktail week. This one was a very different experience from the first. Disaronno was the featured spirit, and there were two guest bartenders whipping up our cocktails. Christina Viera is a bar tender from Bar Mordecai in Toronto and recent winner of the 2022 “Icon of…