Random 30 Jun 2008 8:27 pm
Since I’m one-quarter Slovenian, and have observed quite a few Slovenians up close, it doesn’t surprise me that they are capable of remarkable feats of pigheaded persistence.
You will recall how Martin Strel last year added the Amazon to the list of long rivers whose entire length he has swam.
Now we hear that Jure Robič has [...]
Random 5 Feb 2007 12:51 pm
Martin Strel likes to swim. In rivers. Long rivers. From end to end.
The Danube. The Mississippi. The Yangtze. And now, the Amazon. Never mind the piranha and the candirú.
It’s the Slovenian red wine that keeps him going—he laughs when he says it, but he drinks it as he floats on his back down whatever river [...]
Random 14 Jan 2007 5:19 pm
According to this entry from a while back, my four favorite dishes are spaghetti, leftover spaghetti, spaghetti memories, and spaghetti dreams. I now realize that the third item should have been “klobasa memories”—specifically, memories of the kranjska klobasa made by my grandfather. There are shops on the east side of Cleveland that still make Slovenian [...]
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