Seconds after my colleague waved to me to come closer, I catch a glimpse of the chamois. A majestic animal that isn’t afraid of taking chances and instantly disappeared from the steep walls above Kolpa river. “We might spot another one,” says a fellow hiker. But immediately after that, I forget about the timid cavicornian creature because a fantastic view has opened before us: a multitude of small and larger…
Environment Prehistory
The Koblarska cave (Koblarska jama) and the Black cave (Črna jama)
You should visit some when it’s raining. Or snowing. That is, if you want to witness the majestic interplay of water seeping through the floor and falling to the basin, from which it splashes in thousand little droplets … Or otherwise you also won’t be able to see a true underground “waterfall”. But that is just one scenic view. With most of the others, the weather does not play an…
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crafts
The water powered the sledgehammer as well
Verderber’s blacksmith workshop in Spodnja Bilpa Water and fire. The force of the former could be curbed only partly: through a lifted or half lifted flap it rushed in the channel and after a few metres under the wheel that powered almost everything in his smithy including the “sledgehammer”. However, when from under the Bilparska stena crag, where according to the oral tradition the Devil himself once held his abode, after…
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Cuisine
Kočevje little bombs (kočevske bombice)
“Once when my father was making the dessert, it fell to the floor and fell apart,” reveals Roman Batis and adds: “and that is why it got its name Kočevje little bomb.” In the mid 1950s, Slavko Batis came up with a dessert in his oblong building in the centre of Kočevje that was immediately accepted among the fellow inhabitants and is considered as one of the most recognisable culinary…
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