snowy slovenia... (245/365a)

today is a national holiday (Of course! it's manuela's birthday! ;) ), and we spent the first half of it doing festive things like going on the ferris wheel with tante centa and i got some alone time trying to fix my 35mm lens and failing... then off i went to the christmas market with the quintet to do some video shooting and gluehwein drinking. eventally brian joined us and off we all drove to slovenia for dinner.

in graz it was pouring.
in slovenia it was snowing, so pretty and soft.

why dinner in slovenia? because of the guy.

the chef is amazing. he's in charge of the food, in charge of you. a very eccentric chef, where you have no menu, he just decides what you're going to eat and when and how. it was truly a dinner worth remembering. it was 10 courses spread over 5 hours. each one gorgeous, with wonderful wine.

an appetizer

one of our two desserts

when we got to the gin and tonic course we noticed that it was no longer soft fluffy snow but just real regular snow storm.

that's what i call depth of field

We called in Barbara's new year outside in the cold wet snow, with shots (from a pellegrino bottle, haha, who knows *what* we were drinking) with the chef playing harmonica and telling us when "it was going to burn"

brrrrr

off we went, 60kmh on the highway to get home at 3am. hope the kids let us sleep in tomorrow morning!