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Give me the Euro, Baby!

Posted in History, Slovenia (SLO), Thoughts on December 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Yes, tonight at midnight there will be cheering and fireworks ushering in not only a new year but a new currency.
Slovenia is the first new EU nation to change to the European money since it joined the EU back in 2004, with only 2Million people and a national GDP of approximately $35.2 billion (nearly Microsoft [...]

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Videos from the XYZone

Posted in Video on December 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve started a topic on this site for video. I started posting YouTube feeds on this site of clips to do with this area, music, culture and fun. In the future I hope to post more of my own productions and documentaries so stay tuned and checking this site for more.

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A Song that Rocked a Continent

Posted in Croatia (HR), Music, Video on December 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

This is an old clip I found of “rock me” by RIVA, it won EuroSong contest in 1989 and subsequently allowed Zagreb to host the Eurosong event the next year, It was still united Yugoslavia then but a Croatian artist and as you can see in the clip it is full [...]

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Christmas time in the city, Ljubljana city

Posted in Music, Sights, Slovenia (SLO) on December 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Well this Christmas I pasted off with friends at home so the 26th I decided to go to town and see what was going on and what Slovenes do during this holiday.
Walking into town I noticed that there were very few young people out and in fact I seemed to be one of the few [...]

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They got game!

Posted in Bosnia (BiH), Croatia (HR), History, Montenegro (ME), Serbia (SRB), Slovenia (SLO), Sport on December 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

As a follow up on the article #44… where I talked about Croatians playing world level sports I thought it would be interesting to see where they currently stand in the sport of basket ball.
A few years ago I was told that Croatia had the most “imports” in the game then any other country but [...]

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Will #44 be from the XYZone?

Posted in Bosnia (BiH), Croatia (HR), History, People on December 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Today the veteran and outspoken American politician Dennis Kucinich (most probably originally spelt Kučinič) formally declared his intent to run for USA President in 2008, his second attempt at the highest office and being the 44th President of the United States of America.
Kucinich has roots in the XYZone, the son of a Croatian father [...]

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Second Place of Birth: Nevis

Posted in Book Reviews, History, Slovenia (SLO) on December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Title: Second Place of Birth: Nevis
Author: Anton Tomažič
Language: English and Slovene (in separate books)
Available at: Amazon or AuthorHouse
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This is a fantastic story, not only one of courage and overcoming but also because it is writen by a Slovene living here but about a place so not like here.
It this book is many things [...]

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Dare to dream, dare to do!

Posted in People, Slovenia (SLO), Thoughts on December 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I’m just fascinated reading an article in the Slovenia Times (an English language local newspaper). Really, I do not think a last page mention did it justice, but it is really a great story of two Slovenes who thought out-of-the-box and drove across the world in their SUV over two years. This is Uroš and [...]

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