A Postcard A Day - Friday 5 September 2025 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely girls, 

The weather has thankfully cooled down a bit. Especially at night. I'm still sleeping under a thin sheet but I am now wearing pyjamas. And I'm enjoying breakfasts in the patio. I love September for that reason.

There have been many smiles this week as I am feeling physically better. The heat really takes it out on me. 

But I am also changing my diet. I've always been a bit fussy about my food. It has to be natural, preferably organic. Lately I've been eating vegetarian apart from when I go out (and then I eat fish or seafood). Now I'm even thinking of going vegan! I don't trust the food industry and the world would be a better place if  we avoided animal products. I'm not fanatical because I still have a lovely leather jacket that I'm not getting rid of. But food wise, I'm seriously looking into it. My problem is that living here out in the sticks, many of the products I would need, are very difficult to get. Dry goods I can get online. Lidl have just started to sell tofu, and then only one kind. Perhaps an Asian supermarket.? There's bound to be one in Granada. That's a long way away but once a month would be doable. I am also getting in contact with an English lady who is vegan and lives in Baza. I have never met her but I have her number, so watch this space...

Enough waffle. Let me show you my postcard:

It was sent to me by my travelling friend Maggie. She writes that they only were in Ljubljana for two nights. So they left their hotel at 7 in the morning to see (and photograph) the sights before the tourists would arrive. Then back to the hotel for breakfast followed by a trip in the funicular to the castle.

In the postcard the castle is, I assume, that building at the top and in the photo below you can see the funicular:

A strange looking vehicle for sure.

The stamp is interesting:

It features an otter. It comes from a series about endangered species.

2018 Endangered Animals, Set of 5, self-adhesive. Designs: A, Lynx lynx (Eurasian lynx). B, Lepus timidus (Mountain hare), vert. €1, Mustela nivalis (Least weasel), vert. C, Neomys anomalus (Mediterranean water shrew). D, Lutra lutra (Eurasian otter). (Info and image from Hungaria Stamp Exchange)

Lets move from Slovenia to southern Spain where I am and see what smiles there were in. my life.

It was my Italian son's 49 birthday last week and of course that was an excuse for a video call. Here he is with his birthday cake:

I've been out with. my Danish friends. We initially went to see a craft market in Cuevas del Campo, a little town a half an hour's drive from here, but when we got there it was nothing but a flea market with 5 stalls. So we were done quite quickly and drove on to Castril where we had coffee:

The boss turned out to be Dutch, so I had a little chat (in Dutch) with him.

He offered to take a photo of us, but as it was against the sun, it's not such a good picture.

The next one is better:

I loved the big cactus near our table:

That is all from me. I hope you will all join me at Annie's at A Stitch In Time. In the meantime, I will leave you with some funnies at the end.

Have a lovely weekend,

Lisca