How about Crni les? :))))

     by Anonymous on March 24, 2006 at 12:19 pm

hrastovec?

     by Anonymous on March 24, 2006 at 12:38 pm

I think Hrastovec might be the perfect match. Unfortunately, I think they’re closing it within a few years. (The castle part of the asylum, at any rate)

     by Michael M. on March 24, 2006 at 12:40 pm

I hate it when they break out like that. Hurry back.

     by sgazzetti on March 24, 2006 at 3:08 pm

That’s at least the second time that’s been posted this month. [Oh dear.] Obviously more drastic measures need to be taken.

     by Daniel on March 24, 2006 at 3:20 pm

I thinkyou should coordinate with Natalija Verboten. You know, be her bunk-buddy or smth.

     by cookie on March 24, 2006 at 3:35 pm

yes take cookie’s advice! damn shame about the castle, read about it in ‘Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’ it’s been in existance for a LONG time! I recomend you get a small house by the seaside, or in the mountains, and don’t worry about old age homes. 

     by Katja on March 24, 2006 at 5:31 pm

Katja: "read about it in ‘Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’"Explain, explain … (are we talking about Rebecca West’s novel and what has this to do with Michael’s unposted post?)

     by Luka on March 25, 2006 at 12:11 am

Interesting that you call it a novel Luka, it’s a book she wrote with a few names changed about her triip through what then was Yugoslavia, and she and her husband were taken by their guide to a castle sanitarium where they were fed a glorious meal on a cold winter day.She felt that the people there were dealt with better in many ways than in similar institutions in England at the same time. 

     by Katja on March 26, 2006 at 7:02 pm

OK, bad word: it’s more of a travelogue (but with the size of "War and Peace": which is the reason I’ve never read it). I didn’t know she mentioned Hrastovec … well, then there is no doubt: Hrastovec it is!

     by Luka on March 26, 2006 at 11:36 pm