Mt. Uršla at Night

We (my girl and I) went on the mt. Uršla yesterday. Because the days are really hot this time of year we decided to start the tour in the evening.
So started from Velenje some time after the 19.00. We riched the top at about 21.00. Unfortunately we missed the sundown for a few minutes. Te cottage was already closed and so we only ate and drink and turned down.
The wind at the top was quite strong and that made us go down quite soon. We went down with headlamps slowly. We were back at the car at about 22.30.
It was nice tour the view was nice. It is even more beautiful at niht. But I'll have to take her on the real night tour some other time.

Torchwood

You remember Dr. Who?
Well this is the spin-off of the original series. It only has one season. But it is promising. I must say I enjoyed every part of it.
It's about Captain Jack who plays a role in original series. He is the one who can not die. Nothing can kill him. He is trapped in life. He finds him self in the 20th century and starts preparing the human race for what will happen in th 21st century. He is in charge of the secret non government agency called Torchwood. The agency is dealing with aliens and the other strange happenings in the Britain.
Can't wait for the next season.

Skuta, Grintovec

Just the next day (after the Sleme and 11th day of Ribno) three of us (Pero, Štef and me) went on not so easy tour in the mountains.
We started on 4'o clock from Velenje and went to Logarska Valley, where we really started the whole thing. We went on Okrešelj, over the Turski Žleb to Skuta (2532m) and to the highest mountain in the Kamniško-Savinjske Alps Grintavec (2558m).
The tour was very long and we had to be very careful with our water supply.
The weather was sunny but because of the wind it was not so hot. We saw many mountain goats and quite a few people on out way. On the way back we missed the right path and lost at least hour and a half (and some precious water). When we came back to the cottage on Okrešelj I had to drink 2 liters of water. I was so short on it.
It was a great tour and really nice view. You can see some photos here (until my phone went dead).

11th day of Ribno

The same day that I went on the Sleme we had so called 11th day of Ribno. It's meeting of all the scout guides (old one and new one) that were in the Ribno this year. It usually means afternoon of football between older and younger guides and later between random teams.
It also means chatting and eating.
At evening we even watch some movies from Ribno. They are usually very funny and entertaining. The also bring back memories on recent years.
It was really great.

On the Sleme over the Razbor.

This was one of my longest bike tour ever. It was over 60km altogether. We (my girl and me) went on this nice tour last Friday. It was really beautiful. The weather was hot and clear the view was fantastic and the tour was sweaty. We started from 390m in Velenje and went up to more then 1100m high.
I must say it was great for the body and soul.
Will do some more tours like this.

The Premonition

Sandra Bullock is the star of this one. Like the last one it has something to do with time. Last time she was writting across the time to someone who was living in a different time in The Lake House.
However this time is different. She is living a week out of order. The days don't go in the usual order. She doesn't start week with with Monday but with some other day. She needs more then few days to find this out.
She is living the events out of order, for some she knows what will they end like and for the other ones she doesn't have a clue how did she get there.
Quite confusing story and life.

Fantastic 4 - Rise Of The Silver Surfer

Yes another part of this strip based movie.
What can I say. A lot of bullshit and sleazy parts put together into a story that could be so much much more. But What can I say.
Simple Hollywood recipe: some pretty girls some the muscular guys some sparks between them and some action and you have the action.
How I miss some deeper and more possible stories. I love Sci-Fi but this is just bullshit of it. The story could be so much much more not just another soap. But That brings money.
Good special effects, but could be better.

El Laberinto del Fauno

I just can't do anything useful with myself because of my illness. I can't even read nor thing about anything. My head feels like it'll explode. Thankfully it doesn't hurt.

And this is perfect time to watch some movies.
The first one on my list was a good fantasy story from Mexico. It is a story about a little girl that lived during the war. Her mother married an army commander because of well being of her daughter, her self and her not yet born brother.
They moved from city to the country where "father" was fighting the rebels. He was very cruel commander and did not know any fear.
When they stopped on the way to new home the girl found a statue and encountered an elf. The first night in new home she was waken by elf. Elf lead her to the labyrinth where she got to know even more mystiricle being Faun (Pan man).
She was told a story of a young princes that is probably her. She was lost from underground kingdom and all the kingdom is searching for her. They have found her now and they will take her back if she proves that she is really the one and completes three tasks before the next full moon.
She takes the challenge. The problem is that her mother's pregnancy gets worse and worse. Faun helps her and she can concentrate on the tasks.

Let that be enough. I believe it will drag you to watch it. It is a great movie and you really should watch it.

Ribno 2007 and some more

Well this was really long one. I mean time without blogging.
But I have some good reasons, and some not so good.
Let's state those not so good first. When I came form Ribno, last Saturday I was so tired that I just had to sleep for many hours. When I finally came to my senses I have cough bad ear inflammation. And I was good for few more days. I had to stay in bed with high fewer. Even now I can not go outside and do not feel quite well, but well enough to write these lines.
But let's leave that behind and tell something about all good stuff.

At this years scout camping I was one of the three leaders of our guide school. The guide school is preparation course for those who want to become guides of of scout group (smaller one). It teaches you few basics you need to know when you get your own young scout group. It is put together of knowledge of different fields. From knowing how to survive in the nature, first aid, about orientation and topography, astronomy, signalization, how to made useful objects from natural materials, history of scouts, teamwork, communication, ... and some most important things on how to work with kids, what to expect of them and how to solve some problems.
This course is fitted in ten day's with theoretical and practical parts. At the end each individual that has joined the course takes the test and during the whole time he is carefully observed how is he doing things, what is his behavior, and much more.
It is a very heavy course for youngsters of 14, 15 and few more years.
At the end each and everyone is told what he is capable of and how old group of scouts is he prepared to have if any.
Our guide school is known to be one of the best in our country. But no school can make wonders. Many of our guides are known to be one of the best ones but that is because they had good guides and they got the knowledge and experience even before they went to guide school.
I can say that for myself. The guide school was only repeating and strengthen the knowledge I already had.
For many years now we receive candidates from all over the country and we can see how the things are very different from parts to parts. How different is approach in different parts of country.
There were 18 candidates in the first shift Only 6 of them were from our part, all the others were from allover the country.

But not to think that because we were in a course we didn't do any other stuff. We also
attended all the "cultural" and fun stuff. We just had our own program and were independent of any other. But we were there to help and to entertain.


The weather this year was very mixed for sure. There was lots of rain, even some storms with hail, some really hot days and few days of English weather. After 3 years it was cold enough at night that the snow fell under 1000 meters above the sea in the middle of the summer.

I must say I enjoyed every day of this years camping. Every day was a little surprise.