HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

To all the readers of my blog:

I wish you a very happy and successful new year! May all your New Year's resolutions come true! I hope you all have a great celebration tomorrow and that you enter into the year 2007 surrounded by people you love!

I would also like to thank you for reading my blog and leaving so many nice comments on it! You have made my blog alive by contributing your kind thoughts or simply by visiting it for a few moments! I do hope you will help to keep this blog going in the future, too! THANK YOU!

Best wishes

Wolf

JUST A FEW HOURS TO OUR NEW CURRENCY...

Yes, we are going to have EURO in Slovenia, too! I'm proud to say that I live in the only new member state of the European Union where Euro is going to be adopted in about 25 hours! Of course, the citizens of Slovenia were given the option to buy a beginner kit a few days ago, so I already have coins for €2 and €1 and all the cents (50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1).

As it was reported on TV, Slovenia has the most beautiful coins of all the European Union (and this was said by experts from Finnland, who had made the coins for us!!)! And I must admit, they're right! The Euro coins I have collected from other countries so far are beautiful, too, but none of them have the name of the country nor the name of their national symbols on them. For those of you who don't know: € coins have a national side (the so-called "heads") - specific for every country; and the other side is the same for all the members of EU ("tails", as some of you know it).

Well, in due time I'll provide the photos of all the coins and you'll be able to see how our brand new little gems look like. But for now - just a sneak peak for you: above, you can see the "heads" side of our €2 (left - with the silver rim) and €1 (right - with the golden rim)! Beautiful, aren't they? Do wish us a soft landing in the €uro zone for the start! We can all hardly wait for it!

Just a little explanation of the "heads" symbols:
€2 has our greatest national poet on it (he's the author of our national anthem);
€1 has our first literary man who actually wrote the first book in Slovene language in the year 1552.

The explanations of the symbols on the other coins will follow together with their photos! Stay tuned!