London baby!!! (a.k.a. revisiting scene of the crime)

This autumn is very fruitful. Flight-wise, and doing-something-interesting-wise. ;-) The latest journey was even more meaningful- Mojca and I were about to attend wedding of our friends Natalija and Daniel...

Official member of the UK tourist board

We decided we'd come to England a bit sooner- to do some sightseeing. I was in England couple of times before (including one time with a blog entry), but London is just such a big city, you could easily spend weeks doing something new and interesting every day. I mean- just a short stroll around the city and you're bound to see plaques commemorating famous people and events on virtually every second house...

Yes. It IS 11:30 AM ;-)

We flew from Maribor airport to Stansted on Ryanair. Maribor airport is something completely different (if I may borrow punch line from Monty Python). I mean- although I do think small is charming, the terminal building desperately needs to be rebuilt. If there wouldn't be newer computers at the check-in you'd have a complete feeling you fell through a time warp back to late 1970s. ;-) Hopefully next year should bring good things to this small airport. It'd be a good start if they'd manage to upgrade their web page from "in construction" mode after 6 months. ;-)
Me and Mojca stayed at the European hotel near Kings cross tube station. The "hotel" part should not be taken literally though. The general feeling is of a hostel without dorm rooms. And taken from the size of their toilets and showers it'd seem they do business mostly with exchange students from 3rd world starvation-struck countries ;-) The rooms were rather clean though. ;-)
Anyways- we didn't come to London to sleep, so that wasn't to bad. Based on pictures, you can see we had good time. Did the usual sightseeing. Was rather impressed with London Eye.
More on the rest of the voyage and wedding next time...

Bitter tasting at its best

One very touristy picture taken from London Eye with Mojca and Monika and Big Ben

Great views even on cloudy day...

Millenium bridge & St. Paul cathedral. Its galleries closed on Sunday. :-(

Dve kitari / Two guitars

The following video is performed by Slovenian singer Vlado Kreslin and tamburica band Sukar. The music is from Kreslin album "Muzika", which in my opinion is one of the best albums of ethno music there is. Who else but Vlado would be brave enough to mix some authentic music performed on zithern from Alpine Slovenia, with sevdalinkas from Bosnia, Mediteranean sounds from Istria, Roma music from Russia and Romania (performed on tamburicas), his slow (Panonia rhythms) from Prekmurje and deep south blues co-performed by one of the best blues performers of Europe- Hans Theessink. Not to mention that he's actually singing in all of those tracks. Hope you enjoy this video...

Flying...here and there

Recently I was rather blessed with air travel. And things are looking good ahead. And although flying today is far cry from the glorious days of aviation, it's still this special feeling of traveling the way birds do. Well they don't use planes, but I guess you know what I mean. ;-)
Anyways, for all of us who think a bit of air turbulence sounds like fun, here's a video of plane landing in crosswind. Successfully of course. ;-)

And here's a parody video of renaming the Ljubljana airport to Jože Pučnik airport. Now- all of you who can't speak any Slavic language say that loud: "Jože Pučnik airport". ;-) Our government is really smart, so I just can't wait for next elections when they'll be able to put all this intelligence to work. Hopefully somewhere far from levers of power. :-)