The wooded highlands and storied past of the Balkans have sheltered
abundant cultures, languages and ethnicities. Begin your journey where
historic cities blend with natural beauty. Explore legendary castles and
investigate the chilling inspiration for the tale of Dracula. Give in
to the enchantment of white beaches and deep green forests. Discover the
painted monasteries, Black Sea resorts and often surprising centuries
old wine culture. Trace ancient mythology and civilization throughout
postcard worthy archeological sites. Mystery, history and uncommon
tourist experiences lure many to the Balkans.
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One of Europe's newest and smallest countries, Montenegro.
One of Europe's newest and smallest countries, Montenegro is about the
size of Connecticut, with well under a million people. It's a country of
contrasts: an intriguing combination of rugged landscapes,
communist-era decrepitude, and an emerging Mediterranean hotspot that's
quite popular with the cruising crowd. For more information on the Rick
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Mix - baby bila
And now it's time for the kids to have a chance to sing along with all their favourite songs...
You won't be able to watch them all at once kids , for you have to go to bed or school sometimes. xxx
LJUBLJANAis the capital and largest city of Slovenia.
This is so amazing kids, to think through all the rebuilding of many of the Balkan Countries, there has been found by the Archeologists, Many buildings dating back to pre history times and then the most amazing find of all "A Roman Bath-House" right underneath where the new University of Slovenia was about to be built.
Why you could have had a bath whilst reading your favourite books !!! :)
Prehistory
Around 2000 BC, the Ljubljana Marshes in the immediate vicinity of Ljubljana were settled by people living in pile dwellings. These lake-dwelling people
lived through hunting, fishing and primitive agriculture. To get around
the marshes, they used dugout canoes made by cutting out the inside of
tree trunks. Their archeological remains, nowadays in the Municipality of Ig, have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 2011, in the common nomination of six Alpine states.
Later, the area remained a transit point for numerous tribes and peoples, among them Illyrians, followed by a mixed nation of Celts and Illyrians called the Iapydes, and then in the 3rd century BC a Celtic tribe, the Taurisci.
Antiquity
Main article: Emona.
Excavations at the building site of the planned ew National and University Library of Slovenia. One of the discoveries was the ancient Roman public bath house.
Around 50 BC, the Romans built a military encampment that later became a permanent settlement called Iulia Aemona.This entrenched fort was occupied by the Legio XV Apollinaris. In 452, it was destroyed by the Huns under Attila's orders, and later by the Ostrogoths and the Lombards. Emona housed 5,000–6,000 inhabitants and played an important role
during numerous battles. Its plastered brick houses, painted in
different colors, were already connected to a drainage system. In the 6th century, the ancestors of the Slovenes moved in. In the 9th century, the Slovenes fell under Frankish domination, while experiencing frequent Magyar raids. Not much is known about the area during the settlement of Slavs in the period between the downfall of Emona and the Early Middle Ages.
The Ljubljana Zoo, part of a protected nature park situated only a
20-minute walk from the centre of Ljubljana, lies on the southern slope
of the Ronik hill, surrounded by a natural forest and meadows. It has a
collection of animal species from all continents focusing on animals
typical of the area lying at the intersection of the Alpine, Pannonian
and Mediterranean worlds. What is special about the Ljubljana Zoo is
that visitors and children in particular have an opportunity to take
part in several different family-oriented animal experience activities
during which they can be in close contact with animals. Apart from
taking a guided tour of the Zoo, available both during the daytime and
at night, visitors can join zookeepers at feeding time, meet their
favourite animal, become a zookeeper for a day and much, much more.
Solčava Panoramic Road, Savinja and Šalek Valley.
The beautiful Alps in the background with it's beautiful surroundings.
Can you see the house on the right hand side of the picture and the buttercups growing in the meadow.
Slovenia was formerly part of the Yugoslav republic and became an
independent republic on 25th June 1991. In 2004 Slovenia joined the EU.
With a population of just 2 million it is one of Europe's smallest
nations covering an area of less than 21,000 square km's. Bordered by
Austria, Italy, Hungary, Croatia and the Adriatic sea, Slovenia
contains a diverse countryside with mountains, vineyards, lakes and it's
own stretch of Adriatic coastline. Over half the country is forested
making it one of Europe's greenest nations.
Fun for all the children of the world with Dr. Dodiddily and the Dee Dot's
A little bit about myself and my Sisters
Kath, (far left) Sylvia, blonde (middle) Dorothy (me far right) Amy (Toni, in front)
Dr. Dodiddily is one of four sisters. First there is my sister Sylvia, she is the eldest and the smallest. Then there is my sister Toni(Amy)
she is two years younger than Sylvia, Toni lives in Kent. The next
one born in 1944 was Dorothy, yes my lovelies this is my real name. I am
three years younger than Toni. One more to come and that is my sister
Kathleen, she is the baby of the family and she is four years younger
then myself.
We couldn never hand our cloths down to each other, we were all very
different sizes, and anyone coming after me wouldn't have been able to
wear anything I was such a tom-boy and thing were worn out long
before Kath could have them.
This is a very old picture of the four of us taken in Coed Poeth in North
Wales, way back in 1952/3. Gosh I am an Ancient Dragon, aren't I ! xxx.
This
is myself and my sisters in 1979 just 26 years later, we are with our
mother who like myself was called Dorothy. We are from left to right
Sylvia, Toni, My Mum, Dorothy (me) Kathleen.
Jayden, Noah Rhys, Brodie Leigh with Diddily in the background you can just see my grey hair.
Summer 2014 in the back garden at my home in Pontybodkin another 35 years later.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Bosnian nursery rhyme is one of the most beautiful, for the melody
and the lyrics, between humor and love. Kato is the name of a Bosnian
girl, and would be Kate in English
I have just found this amazing website called "Europe is not Dead" and wow is it fantastic . http://europeisnotdead.com/about-me/
More about it later as I have just sent him an email and I'm hoping for some good news for me and all of you when he reply's
The Tale of The Little Purse with Two Half Pennies.
A Tale from Romania
Posted on by Dr. DoDiddily and the Dee Dots
THIS LITTLE STORY COMES FROM
ROMANIA
The Little Purse with TwoHalf-Pennies
There was once an old man and an old woman. The old woman had a hen and the old man had a rooster; the old woman’s hen laid two eggs a day and she ate a great many, but she would not give the old man a single one. One day the old man lost patience and said: "Listen, old crony, you live as if you were in clover, give me a couple of eggs so that I can at least have a taste of them."
"No indeed!" replied the old woman, who was very avaricious. "If you want eggs, beat your rooster that he may lay eggs for you, and then eat them; I flogged my hen, and just see how she lays now."
The old man, being stingy and greedy, listened to the old woman’s talk, angrily seized his rooster, gavehim a sound thrashing and said: "There, now, lay some eggs for me or else go out of the house, I won’t feed you for nothing any longer."
As soon as the rooster escaped from the old man’s hands it ran off down the high-road. While thus pursuing its way, lo and behold! it found a little purse with two half-pennies. Taking it in its beak, the bird turned and went back toward the old man’s house. On the road it met a carriage containing a gentleman and several ladies. The gentleman looked at the rooster, saw a purse in its bill, and said to thedriver:
"Get down and see what this rooster has in its beak."
The driver hastily jumped from his box, took the little purse from the rooster;s bill, and gave it to his master. The gentleman put it in his pocket and drove on. The rooster was very angry and ran after the carriage, repeating continually:
Kikeriki, sir. Kikerikak,
To me the little purse give back.''
The enraged gentleman said to the coachman as they passed a well:
''Take that impudent rooster and throw him in the well''.
The driver got down off his box again, seized the rooster and flung it down the well. When the rooster saw that his life was in such great danger, what was it to do? It began to swallow the water and drank and drank until it had swallowed all the water in the well. Then it flew out and again ran after the carriage calling:
''Kikeriki, sir, Kikerikak, To me the little purse give back''.
When the gentleman saw this he was perfectly amazed and said: "Hoho! This rooster is a perfect Imp of Satan! Never mind! I'll wring your neck, you saucy cockerel!''.
When he reached home he told the cook to take the rooster, throw it on the coals burning upon the hearth, and push a big stone in front of the opening in the chimney. The old woman did what her master bade her. When the rooster saw this new injustice, it began to spit out the water it had swallowed till it had poured all the water from the well upon the burning coals. This put out the fire, cooled the hearth, and made such a flood on the kitchen floor that the cook fainted away from pure rage. Then the rooster gave the stone a push, came out safe and sound, ran to the gentleman’s window, and began to knock on the panes with its bill, screaming:
'' Kikeriki, sir. Kikerikak, To me the little purse give back."
"Heaven knows that I’ve got a torment in this monster of a rooster," said the gentleman. "Driver, rid me of it, toss it into the middle of the herds of cows and oxen; perhaps some bull will stick its horns through it and relieve us.''
The coachman seized the rooster and flung it among the herds. You ought to have seen the rooster's delight. He swalloed bulls,cows, calves everything till it had devoured the whole herd and his stomach was as big as a mountain. Then it went to the window again, spread out its wings before the sun so that it darkened the gentlemans room and once more it began:
Kikeriki, sir Kikerikak,
To me the little purse give back.''
When the gentleman saw this he was ready to burst with rage and he did not know what to do to get rid of the rooster. He stood thinking till at last he decided what to do.
''I will lock it up in th treasure -chamber, perhaps if he tries to swallow one of the ducats , one will stick in his throat and I shall be rid of the bird.''
He grabbed the rooster and threw it into the Treasure Chamber. Of course the rooster swallowed all the money and left the chests empty. He then made his escape , went back to the window, and again began.
"Kikeriki, sir, Kikerikak, To me the little purse give back."
As the gentleman saw that there was nothing else to be done he tossed the purse out. The rooster picked it up, went about its own business, and left the gentleman in peace. All the poultry ran after the rooster so that it really looked like a wedding; but the gentleman turned green with rage as he watched, and said sighing:
Let them all run off so I won't have their torment anymore, there was witchcraft in that rooster. But the puffed-up rooster stalked proudly along, followed by all the fowls, and went merrily on and on till he reached his old masters house and beganto crow.
"Kikeriki!"
When the old man heard the rooster’s voice he ran out joyfully to meet the bird, but looking through the door what did he see? His rooster had become a terrible object.
An elephant beside it would have seemed like a flea; and following behind came countless flocks of birds, each one more beautiful and brilliant than the other. When the old man saw his rooster so huge and fat he opened the gate for him.
"Master," said the bird, "spread a sheet here in the middle of the yard."
The old man, as nimble as a top, laid down the sheet.
The rooster took its stand upon it, spread its wings, and instantly the
whole yard was filled with birds and herds of cattle, but it shook out on the sheet a pile of ducats that flashed in the sun till they dazzled the eyes. When the old man beheld this vast treasure he did not know what to do in his delight, and hugged and kissed the rooster.
But all at once the old woman appeared from somewhere, and when she saw this marvellous spectacle her eyes glittered in her head, and she was ready to burst with wrath.
"Dear old friend," she said, "give me a few ducats."
I think the old man just might give her some of the ducats because I don't think he was as mean as her. Do you?
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th rage as he watched, and said sighing:
