Month: March 2017
Pro Horto Strgar / Creation and re-creation of GARDENS and PARKS
The core activity of Pro Horto Strgar d.o.o. is the design of open space (creation and re-creation of gardens and parks). It all starts with an idea, followed by realisation and finishes with regular maintenance. Company’s owner and CEO is Andrej Strgar, a professional landscape architect, who holds a university degree in landscape architecture and Slovenian court certificate in the field of horticulture. Landscaping the surroundings of your business premises or your private garden consists of ground preparations, soil transportation, designing water features, pools, setting up irrigation system, placement of different garden structures (fountains, sheds, pergolas), lawn construction and planting. We design and realise winter gardens, rock gardens, green walls, terraces and roof gar...
Insurance Company VZAJEMNA, D.V.Z.
WHY CHOOSE VZAJEMNA, D.V.Z. Vzajemna zdravstvena zavarovalnica, d.v.z., is the largest specialised insurance company in Slovenia, with many years of experience in health insurance. Although our mutuality-based form of organisation is regarded as unique in Slovenia, it is common within the wider European environment. It is founded on solidarity and intergenerational cooperation, both of which are especially important at the present time. Vzajemna takes care of your health security and offers a comprehensive range of health and accident insurance products. Our free-of-charge programme Varuh zdravja enables prevention activities for our insurance holders to promote health and encourage the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. Programme members can avail themselves of numerous services and b...
Maxi department store
The Maxi department store is the oldest Slovenian department store located in the economic and political center of Ljubljana and Slovenia. With its more than 8000 square meters of shopping area, it is the biggest department store in the center of Ljubljana. With its fully developed range and supporting services that it offers, Maxi has been successfully maintaining the development of shopping culture in Slovenia. On three different floors you can find excellent offer of luxury woman and man apparel brand, such as Gerry Weber, Betty Barclay, Joseph Ribkoff, Tommy Hilfiger, Fracomina, Guess, Tom Tailor, S.Oliver, Comma, Marc Aurel, Marc Cain, Palmers…. You surely cannot avoid the offer on the ground floor, which is a bliss of any cosmetic brand you would wish for (Dior, Chanel, Lancom...
Our new member of Better Lifestyle
We would like to wellcome our new member of Betterlifestyle, Ambassador of France to Slovenia,Her Excellency Ms Marion Paradas.
House of Experiments
Based on similar wacky, fun and educational places around the globe, the extraordinary House of Experiments features three rooms of purpose-built experiments for the ultimate hands-on experience. Visitors are free to wander around as they wish, engaging with anything that takes their fancy, whether it’s a giant bubble maker, electronic insects, dancing liquid or a machine that plays music according to your weight. They also provide what they call Adventures, namely small performances that aim to show different scientific principles, with enticing names like the Centre of Gravitology, Eggology etc. Written guides are available in English and other languages. Open to the public Sat & Sun 11:00-19:00. Groups can book special visits outside these days too.
OPEN DOORS – FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN LJUBLJANA opens its doors on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. Come and discover a French international school and taste French specialties, prepared by our pupils also for the occasion of the culinary festival “Good France”. Get to know more about school, curriculum, educational projects, language teaching and meet teachers, pedagogical assistants, as well as the headmaster of the school. Visits the school will be possible in French, Slovene and in English. The more the merrier! FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL : Provides for already 25 years a multicultural, supportive and friendly environment to children from 2 to 15 years of age. Is approved by the Agency for French teaching abroad and provides an education in line with the French Ministry of Ed...
Good things happen when you exercise, Sunny Studio
Even though I was moving with my husband, what I remember most while relocating, is feeling anxious how will I accommodate to new environment and meet new people. I knew I will have to form new friendships, if I didn’t want to spend my days without friends and support group. I didn’t want to stay home all day and wait for my husband to come home from his work. So when you are moving to a new country or new town, after settling in, it is beneficial to subscribe yourself to local gym, yoga or pilates class, because that way you can meet new people, that are not involved in your workplace or your husband workplace. Not only will you meet people, you will get into regular exercise routine with benefits of social life, support group and stress relief. Not to mention being guilt-free for eating ...
Living in Slovenia
Let me tell you why after all these years living abroad, my family decided to come back to Slovenia and why I want to raise my daughters where I grew up. Even though it was such a blessing to live and study in the USA, travel throughout Russia, most of the Europe and living a year in a Rome, I found that little pleasures are the ones that will make us be best versions of ourselves. As my father often said to me, “it is the people and good times that will make you feel the city and not buildings”. After extensive thinking and trying to count my blessings, I found that opening sink and pouring clear water in my glass while living in city centre and overlooking green trees out of my window is one of the biggest blessings. Did you know that Slovenia is first state in the European Union that ha...
What you need, BetterLifestyle team gets it done
I stopped counting how many times I moved, after my ninth moving. To make my life easier, I started looking at movings as a way of jet-setting. It is all in how we perceive things and see it. The glass can be half empty or half full. I decided long time ago, I will live easier if I pour champagne in my glass. So movings can get easier if you decide so. And I would say that first and most important thing is to learn that it is ok if you ask for help. Hire help if you can and let the professionals do the work for you. Educate yourself before going to a new place about local options regarding best schools, best neighbourhood to live in, health care option, banking option and afterwards you will want to know best places to dine, entertain kids, work out and free time options. If you are reloca...
OPEN KITCHEN – FOOD MARKET
The Open Kitchen is a food market where you can experience the delights of freshly cooked food prepared by different Slovenian chefs right there in front of you, on the market stalls. On Fridays from mid-March to October, the Open Kitchen offers you an opportunity to meet Slovenian chefs, taste Slovenian and international dishes, and learn about different methods of food preparation. The choice of food on offer is wide and varied. Each Friday, the market features around thirty different food providers, including modern restaurants, traditional gostilnas, tourist farms, and independent chefs wanting to promote their offerings. The cooking is done to the accompaniment of music and entertainment. In case of bad weather, the market may be cancelled. 24 Mar 2017, 10:00-21:00 Central Mark...
THE WELCOMING OF SPRING
The Welcoming of Spring, a traditional event taking place in Ljubljana before St. Gregory’s Day, revives the handicraftsmen’s tradition of launching wooden clogs with burning candles inside them into waters as a sign of rejoicing at no longer having to work by lights. According to folk tradition, St. Gregory brings spring. By the Julian calendar, his name day (12 March) is the first day of spring. 11 Mar 2017, 17:00-20:00 Gradaščica channel (Krakovo district) Free admission
G. VERDI: LA TRAVIATA – OPERA
With La Traviata (1853) Giuseppe Verdi managed to successfully create one of his most enduring works. In the drama The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Verdi and librettist Francesco Maria Piave recognised a timeless theme, extremely attractive for setting to music in an opera. With the selection of a theme concerning a goodhearted courtier, Verdi stepped on the toes of the middle class, whose expectation of opera was a reinforcement of their false morality. Conductors: Jaroslav Kyzlink / Aleksandar Spasić Director: Lutz Hochstraate Performance by: Chorus, Orchestra and Soloists of the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet of Ljubljana 4 Mar 2017 at 19:30 Slovenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ljubljana Župančičeva ulica 1