Merita`s playground: July 2012

My turn for a neighbourhood walk ... welcome to Slovenia! To a little village called Slap ob Idrijci. I hope you will enjoy this walk with me.

1. POST BOX - This is our post box ... it is really small. :) We do have the big ones too, but just not in our village.

2. LOCAL STORE - Our local store called Mercator. On the left you can see another red sign - it`s for restaurant.

3. MANHOLE COVER - Very plane and boring ... I wish we would have manhole covers like in Japan ... I adore them. :)

4. PLAY/PARK AREA - We don`t really have a children`s park or play area in our village. They do have that in bigger places. But what we have is a beautiful natural bathing place. We have a great river called Idrijca which is great in summer month. You can really cool down in it. :)

5. STREET - This is our main street - not much to see. :) Houses are placed quite apart so it is not really a typical street. :)

6. LOCAL FORM OF TRANSPORT - Here you can see another view of the street. Car is most comonly used. We have busses too, but not a lot of people use them. Everybody has a car - it is not environmentaly friendly, but it is a necessery evil since we need to go to work and busses never drive at hours you need them. :)

My bonus pictures:

7. Old HAY BARN with TRACTOR. :) I love this big old buildings.

8. OLD HOUSE - half fallen apart. I guess I like taking pictures of old things. :) This one is quite old ... you can see the number 1913 written over the door.

9. PATHWAY besides the forest. Really nice. I go there quite often. It leads to a house - birth place of very famous Slovenian writter CIRIL KOSMAČ.

10. RIVER IDRIJCA and a small dam on the river. This is the view up the vally.

11. BUS STATION. No need to explain. :)

12. The last one is SIGN for a SCHOOL WAY/PATH that alerts all the drivers that there might be children on the road.

I hope you enjoyed our little walk around my neighbourhood. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. My blog loves comments.

You might wanna check my older posts for more pictures ... like this one of a frozen river (it doesn`t happen often). Or our cleaning action. Or maybe the most beautifull, the lake nearby (5km away from here).

Oh, and since we were on short vacation ... I took picture of the big post box. :) Here it is:

So this is it ... tomorrow is Scotland time ... I can hardly wait for that. We would like to go there sometime ... but there is never enough time or enough money. :) Maybe someday ... but at least tomorrow on a neighbourhood walk with Clair.

Absolutely a big thanks to Jo for having great ideas! :)

And here are the other participants, and their post date:

June 25 — Japan - www.jojoebi-designs.com

26 – California, USA http://akatsukira.com/

27 – Sweden, http://www.littleredfarm.com/

28 – Canary islands, jeveuxunetitesoeurfille.over-blog.com

29 - East Devon, UK, www.knittylorn.blogspot.co.uk

30 - Michigan, U.S.A. www.godwhohasnohands.blogspot.com

July 1 – Mokpo, S0uth Korea, http://jeollanamdosalad.wordpress.com/

2 - Slovenia, http://patchworkmerita.blogspot.com/

3 - Falkirk in Scotland, www.kidscraftandchaos.com

4 - Washington, U.S.A. - http://www.zonnah.com