Month: November 2021

Bloke (pronounced /’blo:keh/, not /bləʊk/) is a high karst plateau some 30 km south as the crow flies from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It’s an enchanted and place, with lush meadows, deep forests, meandering streams and scattered small hamlets, where wildlife outnumber people: all the big beasts of Slovenia, the bear, the wolf and the lynx call … Read more

Imagine: a shallow, marshy lake; a clear stream flowing into it; a village: a flock of wooden houses, covered with dried grass, standing on hundreds of stilts, driven deep into the marshy soil on the bank of a stream. There are small gardens just behind the houses on the more solid ground; goats, sheep, and … Read more