A regular Wednesday of a Slovenian student in an off-year
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imgur.comA Vitesse fan in Slovenia? I didn't know they existed.
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There's dozens of us!!!!!!
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Busiest street of town: zero traffic
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- I'm not sure why the Croatians have a consulate here.
Cries in Croatian.
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It's not even a real consulate, just a honorary one. You can't get any papers done in it. Coming to think about it, I've never seen it open.
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It's maybe closed and the old sign is still there ...
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Nah, it still exists, you can check on Foreign ministry website
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TIL that the name for tomatoes in Slovene is similar to the Austrian Paradeiser. And are you sure this Rudolf Maister guy was not a double agent or something like that? His name doesn't really sound Slovenian.
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Many Slovenians have surnames of German origin, it's nothing weird here, but they're mostly adjusted to our alphabet.
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And many Austrians have Slavic names too which are also kind of Germanised. Except for people who came later on during the Balkan wars.
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Yeah, lots of those in Austrian football too.
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How dare you implicate the great Maister in schemes! Be gone oppressor!
I mean, Maribor was a 95-99% German city throughout all of its time right up to the liberation at the hands of Maister. Some name pollution is to be expected.
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I just read a little bit about him and apparently he was one of the guys who occupied Carinthia after WW1 and tried to get them to Yugoslavia. Now I kind of like him. Carinthians probably not so much though.
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Great! Of course the referendum was an inside job, that part of Austria should be Slovenian today. But I'll let it slide... for now.
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But we could make a deal about Carinthia anyway?
Just kidding. It's kind of a joke in Austria that we want them to go away because of their politics (Jörg Haider) and their financial fuck ups. Therefore we call them sometimes North Slovenians.
Anyway. The Slovenians wanted to annex more than the Slovene speaking territory including Klagenfurt so your Maister would have been an oppressor himself.
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How much of your own history and history of the region do you know?
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I'm not from this region so please excuse my ignorance. Not all Austrians are from Styria/Carinthia.
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I meant region of ex-Habsburg Monarchy and Greater German Reich.
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I really like these threads. Your city and the landscape is beautiful. Gotta visit Slovenia one day.
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me too. easily the best thing about my recent sub to r/europe
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I spent 3 months in Maribor when I was a teenager, I miss that city. :(
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Hi Mary!
Cute town (living in London your home is tiny >:) ).
Is Slovenia very religious or is that just you? :P
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The country overall is... reasonably religious. Young adults, not very.
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Probably safe to say the average Slovenian gets more religious as he gets older.... I have this little theory that we're just playing it safe :D
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Absolutely lovely! I've always wanted to see what Slovenia really looks like, love these threads
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They have a pretty badass sculpture of Mary in Lebanon, overlooking a coastal town called Jounieh. It's in a Christian part of Lebanon obviously. They call it Our Lady of Lebanon. I like to think of it as a slightly smaller version of the Jesus statue in Rio. It looks like this:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d6/df/df/d6dfdfc73ae23e871b12a938dc919087.jpg
http://www.globosapiens.net/data/gallery/le/pictures_468/--lebanon--mont-liban--id=47415.jpg
But yours isn't half-bad either.
As for the cathedral, such gothic with those triangle-shaped towers. You'll find similar cathedrals in Poland.
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/medieval-gothic-cathedral-wroclaw-poland-28469190.jpg
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/poland/17.jpg
They also have similar shrines of Mary (and Jesus) in Poland. You see shrines of Mary or Jesus hanging from the cross almost right in the middle of the sidewalk. Sometimes people put candles or flowers on the ground. Some even do the cross sign when they pass by.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LlgyHRkuexA/S8xDF6apLGI/AAAAAAAAAJg/fv8XtTH948w/s400/IMG_0644.jpg
You'll see something like this in poorer urban neighborhoods:
And you'll see roadside shrines in more rural areas:
http://c7.alamy.com/comp/A7J1MN/catholic-roadside-shrine-to-virgin-mary-in-poland-2006-A7J1MN.jpg
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Sweet! Thanks for these. :)
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Very cool. I kinda want to go on holiday in Slovenia. Looks really beautiful.
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I just came from the grocery store and supposed to start cooking lunch, but I opened reddit instead. I still have this thing on my lap!
PS: I'll be making krompirjeva musaka s kislim zeljem. It will be glorious!
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Rock on! I've finished what was left of my salad today. Gonna drop some cucumbers dead in the evening. :)
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I think it is cool you guys have this thing in small plastic packets. Because here it is only available in 1kg+ glass jars, I am too lazy to haul those from the store.
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I'd love it in even smaller portions. I don't want to throw out food, but usually I just want it as a side dish to my cutlet.
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The combination of what you are eating looks disgusting! :D But other than that Maribor looks really nice. Very similar to a german city.
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Very similar to a german city.
Well, it used to be for about 500 years.
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Why? Sauerkraut and "Frankfurter" or how the Germans would call them "Wiener" seems alright. I must admit though never tried the Sauerkraut/white beans mix :)
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I cant speak for everyone but we dont eat Sauerkraut as salad, we eat it as warm dish with mashed potatoes. Also most definetly not with beans. The sausages look weird too :P
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I don't eat it with beans, but it's great with pumpkin oil, apple vinegar, shallots and ground black pepper. Beans, tomatoes and pored over searing crackling optional.
To be good "raw" the sauerkraut has to be homemade and chilled (cellar temp) in my opinion. Store-bought can be unimpressive, and in that case a pig stepping in it while it cooks is a must. My grandma makes it every fall, you can eat it out of the souring bin as is and it's delicious.
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Yeah very true! I remember when I was a kid we used to go to a little "store" more like a very small kiosk where they had a big barrel of sauerkraut and we got some for free from the employee...we went there like few times a week even in the morning before school :D nowadays as you say it can get very disgusting they seem to put sugar in it or something. Last time I got a pack of sauerkraut from the supermarker I swear I could not finish it...
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Try cold kapusta. We eat it both ways, it's always great.
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oh, I pass by the basilica every day but had no idea it's so handsome on the inside. thanks for the post, found out some things about Maribor I hadn't known. but then again thanks for nothing, why didn't you win vs PSV the other day, it would've made my life as an Ajax fan a little bit easier :(.
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You should go in sometime! I'm just sitting here on the outside reading reddit.
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Odlično opravljeno delo! And you just reminded me that I'm out of kisla repa...
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2.50€ for a Burger. That is fucking insane.
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Bio sam u svicarskoj ...
http://www.haefliger-family.ch/Blog/Ausw_10_09_clip_image002_0047.jpg
Nikad vise :D
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It's closer to 3€ in the better places. 3.2-4€ for a good one.
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Not at all, good burgers are usually around 5€ here and I'd say it's worth it. "Normal" sandwiches (some grilled/fried meat and vegetables) cost around 3€.
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"Normal" sandwiches (some grilled/fried meat and vegetables) cost around 3€.
Here,me and my friends buy Sandwiches for 2.5 gel (roughly 1€ ) and all of US think it's damn expensive :D
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Pretty cheap
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Thanks for sharing! Nice to see religious life in Europe! :)
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3,50€ for a kg of tomatos wow thats alot. They look pretty though hope they taste like real tomatos not like that stuff you get at supermarkets. Also love sauerkraut. I love your life :) About dishonored: that game is great! If you care check out StealthGamerBR vids on youtube.
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It's a bit yeah. That grocer sells a lot of local tomatoes. There's similar ones to these from Koper that he had last summer, but these taste just as good. They're from a company in Prekmurje and they're the real deal. I also like italian Monte Rosso tomatoes, which are 2.99. Premium tomatoes are around the same price.
I kind of like my life too, but us humans are never satisfied. :)
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It's always a good deal to buy local products. People really should be aware of that and buy things that are available localy at given time of the year (but yeah thats a different topic). I'm always doing that and I'm willing to pay more for local stuff even better if it's a small farm next to where I live.
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I'm gonna try and do more of that. Start buying veggies/olive oil/pumpkin oil at the open-air market where it's all local (or less local) farms.
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who if not you? when if not now?
Good saying.
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Ok you win, you have made me want to visit that Basilica.
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A regular Wednesday of a Slovenian Theology student in an off-year.
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What?
I'm not sure why that had to be pointed out, but yeah. :)
Because we usually don't go to church. Especially not on week-days.
Model, ti res mislš, da je "običajno" za slovenske študente, da hodjo k maš?