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TRAVELLER
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ONE
beautiful area,
THREE
regions,
ONETHOUSAND
&FORTY
buyers from
TWENTY-ONE
different nations over
EIGHT
years. Welcome
to
WESTERN
SLOVENIA
Amid the vineyards and
orchards of western
Slovenia, an
international, expat
community is putting
down roots. And it’s
not hard to understand
the attraction…
F
eeling tired?Why not take a load off in the nearest
country pub? Order a frothy pint of ale at the bar
and settle down to sip it in a cosy corner beneath
a poster showing
The Rules of Cricket
or pictures
of Laurel andHardy. If the weather’s good, perhaps a cider
in the sun on the leafy terracemight be hard to resist. You’ll
probably find a regular with whom to discuss England’s
performance in Euro 2012 or groups of Brits chatting about
– what else? – the weather. It’s the kind of scene that will be
familiar in countless pubs across rural England. However,
Bar Na Kujkli is not to be found in the Home Counties, or
even in the UK for that matter. In fact, it’s in Slovenia.
Until recently, the quiet, sparsely populated Prekmurje
region in the far north-eastern part of this small, central
European nation was little known – even tomany of the
country’s own residents. In recent years, though, it –
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