
Insurance Headquarters

Maybe a nice counterpoint to yesterday’s spillover post “War Painting”.
Besides all, this image is also a contribution to/comment on the landscapist’s current post titled “the art of war / what the camera cannot interpret”. Admittedly I have great difficulties/reservations with most kind of war photography and even more with war painting: The first one often is (and should be) that graphic that it’s hard…
While Smartno was a medieval village, carefully renovated regarding both history and livelihood for the current inhabitants, Nova Gorica is an almost ‘brand new’ city, founded after the post-WW II demarcations left the Slovenian side without a city infrastructure – but with a railway station that was taken away from the Italian side of the…
The House of Culture in Šmartno hosted our delegation for a tasty, traditional dinner with local specialties, cherries included. They have a vivid society that fills the village with cultural life with festivals, concerts, exhibitions etc. not only for tourists but as well to keep this place alive and attractive for themselves. I…