My Opera
Burja
Thursday, March 6, 2008 9:19:04 PM
Today I was visiting Goriška brda (or slo-wiki) with a very special purpose (which may be disclosed in some of my future posts). Brda are home to the some of the best wines of Slovenia. I really like visiting any region with wineyards. They add something very poetic to the landscape.
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However, getting there today was quite tricky because of extremely strong wind called burja. Burja has a "base speed" at about 70-100 km/h, but that's not the tricky part. Several times in a minute it strikes with really powerful random hits of about 145-200 km/h. They always get you unprepared. If you're standing outside it may also slam you down to the ground.
These two drivers were not careful enough.
I was trying to get a better picture, but it was impossible to resist the wind outisde the car (driving itself was like an adrenalin rush).
But I did take a moment and take a picture of Solkan bridge. This should be the largest stone arch in the world.
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[/IMG][/IMG]However, getting there today was quite tricky because of extremely strong wind called burja. Burja has a "base speed" at about 70-100 km/h, but that's not the tricky part. Several times in a minute it strikes with really powerful random hits of about 145-200 km/h. They always get you unprepared. If you're standing outside it may also slam you down to the ground.
These two drivers were not careful enough.
I was trying to get a better picture, but it was impossible to resist the wind outisde the car (driving itself was like an adrenalin rush).
But I did take a moment and take a picture of Solkan bridge. This should be the largest stone arch in the world.
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Stardancer # Friday, March 7, 2008 2:33:48 AM
Seems that you had some rather interesting weather there, though. Glad you survived the winds.
kristjand # Saturday, March 8, 2008 1:29:17 PM
Anyway, nice pix!!