Whatever ingredients you put in your salad, it’ll never taste as good as the one dressed with pumpkinseed oil.
You think that the school system in Slovenia sucks. But then you leave and realize that you have to pay for a private school because the public service is so poorly resourced that after 8 years of learning a foreign language you can’t even string a sentence together.
Cars stopping and letting you cross the street. Cycling without a fear of being run over the minute you start pedaling. Driving without having to concentrate on potholes and speed bumps. This is the luxury of home.
Although you complain that every summer Croatians raise the prices of their services and that a week-long vacation almost drives you to bankruptcy, there’s no sweeter place to relax than a deserted beach on the Adriatic Sea.
In some countries offering you a coffee, beer, glass of wine, nuts, cookies and home-made pie, all at the same visit isn’t standard hospitality. You might have to be satisfied with a simple glass of water.
The phrase “would you like to go for a cup of coffee” is not as literal as in Slovenia. It’s not an event worldwide and your friends may not have time for it.
I bet it doesn’t cross your mind that you could be attacked when you’re returning home from a party alone on public transport at 2 am, even if you’re alone and female. Elsewhere you wouldn’t even think of stepping outside without company or without a car.
Imagine it’s almost midnight and you want to cuddle up with your partner, accompanied by a movie and a cup of tea but you’re out of water? You could survive without a tea but have to take off your pajamas and venture to the store to buy bottled water. You’ll miss the ease of strolling to the kitchen and turning on the tap.
It’s hard to step outside of your home and be far from some sort of nature, whether it’s a park, forest, meadow, river, vineyard, waterfall, field, mountain, sea. 