First Snowfall

Winter is finally here! It is snowing almost in entire Slovenia and the forecast expects two more days of snowfall. Yesss! After a dull late Autumn we have again new possibilities for photographing. Ljubljana is covered in snow and today I took a short walk through the old town. Lovely. Fresh air, festive atmosphere and pure white snow! And it gets even better – tomorrow  we are going to the old town again – to have a cooked wine and to make some evening shots of beautifully decorated city!

Beauty of Vineyards

On our Autumn colours tour in October this year we visited Northeastern Slovenia. We spent there two wonderful days and we managed to catch some beautiful light – ideal for landscape photos. On the way there we also stopped at Ptuj – one of the oldest and best preserved medieval town of Slovenia. Our base was private wine cellar that has a few rooms available to rent. The host family surprised everyone with its friendliness, mother is an excellent cook and their own wine was a perfect supplement for her delicious meals.

The weather was totally unpredictable with rain followed by sunshine and rainbows and the sunsets were stunning. Mornings were ice cold, but it was worth every minute standing among colourful vineyards, waiting for the sun to rise. Here are some photos of these two days…

We received Creator award!

Slovenian Tourism Board organised 12. Tourism Forum in Radenci this December. Main topic of the event was Green Tourism and how does it affect Slovenian tourism. The seminars were interesting and gave us some new ideas how to be more nature friendly with our business. Special guest of the Forum was Mr. Taleb Rifai, general secretary of World Tourism Organisation. The theme of the evening event was Taste Slovenia where culinary delicacies from all Slovenia regions were represented.

The reason we attended this event is that we were nominees for the award Snovalec (Creator) 2009. The Creator competition is organised by STB and BTPS (Bank of Tourism Potentials) and is given to reward successful innovations in tourism and to encourage creativity and innovation in Slovenian tourism. This year there were more than 60 different ideas and projects competing – Adriatic2Alps Photography Tours was one of them.  And we were one of the four finalists that received the award! Yeeha!

Yes, we got the Creator 2009! What does it mean? Beside financial support it is a recognition to our work and confirmation that we are on the right way with Photography Tours.  The reason we received this award is; “A2A Photography Tours is encouraging boutique tourism with high added value that helps developing tourism offer of local communities and helps promoting Slovenia in an innovative way.”