So in the spirit of this exciting young interactive century, here’s a video of a weekend in Slovenia.

Skiing and filming at the same time is pretty darn difficult, I’m surprised that there was any usable footage at the end of the weekend. The quality isn’t fantastic – I was filming with my trusty Canon Ixus 55, (ie, not really a video camera) and then Windows Movie Maker refuses to bounce down completed videos at 30fps (the optimum for Youtube). But I hope somebody enjoys the results.

The soundtrack is Srce od Kristala by Slovenian singer Anžej Dežan, who was the country’s entrant in Eurovision last year. The song is a little different from what you’d normally hear on this blog, but believe me, after a few days in a place like Slovenia, all that trashy Europop starts to make sense – it’s all a question of context.

Slovenia is a drop-dead gorgeous country, and if you’d never been to Europe before and had to pick one nation to visit, you could do a lot worse than wind up here – it’s got all the essential things that make continental Europe so cool – Adriatic coast, Alps, vineyards, turnip fields and a cute little capital city called Ljubljana. Everyone is either friendly or at least accommodating, most people speak English, and you can eat as much horse as you like.