Our Slovenia was also mentioned in the National Geographic magazine these days. We are supposed to find a real unicorn in our fairy-tale forests.
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Natalia and Ilja are a young couple who moved from vast Russia to the capital of our beautiful country less than a year ago. As vloggers, they describe life in Slovenia to their Russian compatriots with cute and informative videos, which they regularly publish on their website "KakNamTam" (How we are there) and on their YouTube channel.
Just over a week ago, the first independent Yankee Candle store in Slovenia opened its doors, located at Nazorjeva 12 in Ljubljana. The small but oh-so-smelling shop is ideal for anyone who wants to introduce one of the 50 scents of these famous scented candles into their homes, which instantly make the world around us friendlier and warmer.
Today, Google updated the Street View service in Google Maps with images from Slovenia and enabled users from all over the world to virtually explore national parks, beaches, ski resorts and other tourist attractions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the results of a 15-year survey of global alcohol consumption. Among the 25 countries whose inhabitants like to drink a glass (too) much, our Slovenia took 23rd place. The prize for the drunkest country goes to...
The compact single-family house in Škofja Loka raised a lot of dust on the Internet, as it was published on many global architectural portals, such as freshhome and archdaily.
The contest for the most beautiful castle in the world has started on boredpanda.org. You can currently choose from 69 castles, including two Slovenian castles, Bled and Predjam. The competition is of an open type, which means that it accepts new proposals or photographs. And na(grad)a for the winner? Unknown, but the title of 'the most beautiful in this country' would be a big enough compliment.
Are you interested in what was the reason for the creation of the Lishinu leash? Grega, one of the creators, had a bitter experience while walking his dog Red. When he was tying his shoes, Reda startled something and the next moment he was gone. Fortunately, this story has a fairy-tale ending, as Red eventually returned. And this leash was created so that something like this would not happen again. Grega and Red then lived happily ever after with Lishinu.
In autumn, not only the leaves will fall from the trees, Slovenia will also drop from the list of countries where the American clothing store Gap does not have its stores. The franchise will be taken over by Magistrate International, and all three stores will be hosted by Ljubljana.
Although men are less and less active in household chores, we can boast that our stronger halves are good at this area as well.
Why rush to megalomaniacal capitals on vacation when you can explore lovely towns and experience the picturesqueness they offer in peace? This year, let's go to the oldest Danish town of Ribe, which received the title of the most beautiful small European destination, and we invite friends from abroad on a trip to Bled, which, according to the respondents, landed in sixth place. In any case, the decision for a summer road trip will not be difficult.
In the last three days, the front pages of the world's online media have been writing about Slovenia with extraordinary enthusiasm and populist headlines, which can be a source of great honor and pride for us. Slovenia was thus completely rightfully on the headlines of all the world's media. Some about her as the Cinderella of world sports.