Mladenand co. leave in the morning, returning the quiet. Mitja and I clear some trees and shrubs blocking the winter sun from the garden. So many thorns. The sun came out for about 5 minutes, its last brief appearance being thursday. Hands get worked using machete. Garden salad and spaghetti with sauce for lunch. Maja came with the car and we, with Max, drive 20 minutes to the coast in Italy. No border control. Walked the quay overlooking the misty Adiatic, absent of a horizon. Stop at a cafe so that Maja and Mitja can translate a letter they wrote to a women living in Buenos Aires and owns a house in Nadrozica which they would like to purchase. Talk to a German travelling through with his 2 month old dog. He recommends Ljubljana as well as Macedonia. Leave the cafe, drive to a nearby village still on the Italian side for an osmica. Osmica is when a house cooks food and invites people for cheap, delicious food for 8 consecutive days. A popular tradition in the Kras region of Slovenia and Italy. Italian law forbids serving hot food at osmica, and so we ate salami, prosciutto, bacon, and a warn, tender meat that was like roast beef but better and probably pig. It was perhaps the best prepared meat I have had, and with some local Kras wine, the evening was quite enjoyable. Mitja and I shared 1L of wine, while Maja, being the DD and a vegetarian was perhaps left a bit bereft of the reverie, picked from a bag of semi-rotten chestnuts, but seemed content enough in conversation. Even Max, who had deftly planted himself outside the kitchen door was enjoying scraps of the meat and making several friends.
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