On Monday we still didn't received the book, which was really annoying, but my host didn't want to make my stay worthless, so she decided to show me some traditional things from Slovenia.
First she took me to the thing called Lectovo srce or Lebkuchen. That is originally German thing, but seeing the fact that Slovenia has been connected with Germany in the past, they kind of made this German tradition a part of their own. It's basicly a gingerbread cookies, decorated with nuts, honey, almonds,... They can be eaten, but their purpouse is more of decorative one. What is somehow different in Slovenia is that only the front side is decorated, while the backside is empty.
Then I was shown an old coffe maker and some home made alcohol. Slovenia has got a lot of different sorts of alcohol, but it's especially known for it's wine. But I was however more impressed with the old coffe maker, because I don't enjoy alcohol. I also liked the old wooden rocking seat and old watch, the wool maker and the wine maker.
But what really amazed me was some traditional art. I was shown a butterfly, a flower and a cow horn that was made for cow herders in the past. I was told that this horn was made for an event called Cow ball, which happened each autumn in Bohinj. It's basicly the time wheb people from Bohinj remember old ways of life, when herders lived in the hills durring spring and summer with their cows and returned to the valley in autumn to spend the winter in the valley. Of course when they returned they had celebrations.
