DAY 49 JULY 13 SUBURBAN MARIBOR, SLOVENIA

IN VINO VERITAS

We take a drive out to Andrea's folks farm/vineyard out in Jarenina...double your pleasure Bubs.  Something for Bubs and something for Dushanka.

 Andrea, why does Voikan's cousin keep singing "here a chick, there a chick, everywhere a chick chick?"

Yes, my Andrea was raised here Bubs.  Srecko, is only to happy to show us around.

His pride and joy is the vineyard and winery.  He points out some vintage bottles....wonder what he's saving them for??

They bottle and label in this room...

Do you think we have enough for your wife??

What is that black stuff on the walls and ceiling?  And more importantly what in the heck is that thing hanging???  A white spider Dushanka.  White?  Too much Chardonnay??

This is "wine mold" Dushanka.  Well don't you clean down here??  No Dushanka, this is the good mold that helps make our wine extraordinary.  Wake up girl, it's part of our award winning secret.

Buba checks out a very handsome wine tasting room...

Naturally, the Prime Minister/President of Slovenia has visited...Slovenian Style Secret Service???

Lots of awards alright....  CRNKO WINE.  Very tasty.

Even the French gave Srecko an award.  Now that had to a special day- to beat out the French on their own turf.  Oh Dushanka, good point.  The following year they said our wine didn't arrive to the judging on time...hmmmmmmmmmm.  Yeah that's what we said too.

I don't know how much longer I can hold my wife back Srecko...

Dushanka, Jozica and Andrea have a few laughs while lining up the ham (was that previously a pet?) and cheese to go with the wine tasting...the parents were married in 1966 and grew the first grapes in 1967.  Their son, Sislivo, and his wife and daughter live here as well.  I think they were hiding from us- maybe they had visions of Dushanka drinking them out of house and vineyard?  Andrea lived here until she went to the University of Ljubljana- for undergrad and grad school.  I guess milking cows and vines weren't her cup of tea.

Cheers!

While Bubs enjjoys the barn and some very fat pigs...

Oink, Oink and Pleep dove right in!

Dushanka, are you up for a quick buzz up to Austria?  Huh?  Yep it's just up the road....and then I would be happy to show you my office on the way back.

Hey, didn't you used to live out this way, by Andrea's folks?  Sure did, right down the road....

Sava Medical...Voikan started his own private practice...apparently he learned much at Anro.

Waiting room- with socialized health care each patient gets 5-8 mins of my time.  Huh?

El Capitan's office....V has an unusual practice in that it is private but he also is assigned public pay patients he must see too.

Even doctors text...bring home the milk?

V checks out Bubs blood pressure....just a bit high.  Must be the steady Cevaps diet or could it be the steady diet of Dushanka- with no reprieve?

Lots of pictures of happy patients.

And again, we come home to a very deliccious and beautifully prepared meal by Andrea- must write a cookbook Andrea.   Dushanka, has visions of your blog, DVD's, a TV program and more....

And bake...this poppy seed cake was unique and to die for.

Elvis...  V wanted to show us his wedding "service"...yes, my most darling and brilliant cousin went to Las Vegas/2008 and got married Vive Las Vegas style.  Huh?  Dushanka doesn't get it.  Bubs said leave it alone.  Huh?

Is a Bobble head wedding cake part of the festivity V?

and after Vive Las Vegas we watch the Germans win the World Cup-they do call it football, it ain't the Super Bowl but kept our attention....why do we call it soccer and the rest of the world calls it football??  Talk about rabid fans....ai carumba.