Short sleeves, short pants and short skirts have been big on the streets of Ljubljana the last few days, and our regular tables in the various cafés and bars we frequent are now often taken by tourists with more money, free time and class than we’re able to draw upon. Thus we explore some of the less trafficked parts of town, secure in the knowledge that by doing so we’re steadily mapping more of the psychogeography of the place we now call home, getting pulled deeper into its past, present, and – one hopes – its future...

STA, 22 April 2018 – A man opened fire on the main beach of the coastal town of Portorož on Saturday evening, injuring a 38-year-old man and causing a scare. The police are still looking for the shooter. 

STA, 21 April 2018 – As Israel was founded 70 years ago, on 14 May 1948, some 200 Slovenian Jews are estimated to have moved there from Slovenia, although the Jewish Community in the country does not have exact data. 

Learning to see the city in new ways. 

Political challengers to our potica-gubana recipe of the week. 

Doing things outside the home. 

The 21-year-old who stabbed actor Gašper Tič to death at his home on 18 June, has been found guilty of manslaughter in a state of severely diminished capacity and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. 

STA, 19 April 2018 – In an attempt to encourage people to start driving electric cars, two motorists drove from Lendava (NE) to Portorož (SW) on Thursday, completing the 300-km route without a single filling break. Ignac Završnik, the president of the association E-Mobility Slovenia, said the trip undermined the prejudice that one cannot get far with an e-car. 

If you want to see creativity, passion and can-do spirit in Ljubljana then one place to head this weekend is the craft beer festival being held today (Friday, April 20) and tomorrow, 14:00–02:00, in the exhibition centre on Dunajska, where people are getting things done. 

A ministerial meeting and cultural forum in Ljubljana both point to closer relations.