We have reached the end of January and to see it off here is a collection of Piran doors. If you don’t know where it is, the photo above is clear on it in two languages.
It seems that I love this new coral blog of mine so much that since I started it on the 1st I have posted on every single day in January! Never before in my 5-year blogging career (the 5th anniversary coming up in March) was I so regular.
And now I’m proud. Have a look at the front page, isn’t it inviting? It just makes you wish to click on this and that… Okay, okay, enough. We are here for some doors.
These 15 door photos are from the town of Piran on the Slovenian riviera. Slovenia has less than 50 km of coast, trapped between Trieste in Italy in the north and the Istria peninsula that continues towards Croatia in the south.
If you take the bus from the capital, Ljubljana, Piran is the last stop. It can take up to 3 hours, beware of slow busses. They skip the highway and instead meander through pretty little towns and villages and even once they reach the coast they seem to stop at all other towns first: Koper, Izola, Strunjan, Lucija, Portorož.
Piran is the last and you are glad for it. It is the one with the best light. It seems like a secret not everybody knows. When you reach it, you know that this is where certainty stops and if you wish to continue, you have to change countries, languages, everything you’ve known. And you do.
Piran, as the featured photo promises, is indeed at the end of the world as I knew it. But isn’t it reassuring to know that where the world ends there is ice cream?
So that’s where the sun went!!! I was wondering!
So many great doors, like the blue Shakespeare one and 4 shades of red. My favorite shots are the first 3, especially love how colorful the first is, great composition!!
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Thank you, SMSW! I was just posting the reminder for this post on Facebook, as I do every time, and chose to include your three favourites even though I know you’re not there. I’m so glad that you like my favourites. And the mailboxes are my very favourite of all! 🙂
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Yes that’s a great shot!!! Splashes of paint in perfection 😊
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Ps. Do you get lots of traffic from FB? People seem to, in general. (Still don’t feel like I’m missing out…)
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No, not really, I mainly do it for my real life friends who don’t blog. I have less than 200 friends there, and don’t accept or ask just everybody.
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Fabulous, wonderful, amazing doors.A feast of delicious doors. I can’t pick a favourite. I love the titles you’ve given them and I know that the doors like these captions too.
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Ahh, Helen, I’m so glad you found my new blog! And so lovely that you, as a proper door whisperer, know to read their minds and that they agree. 😉 Thank youuu!
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I thought I’d already followed your lovely coral blog! Then I saw the “follow” button. You go from strength to strength.
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Very much enjoyed your eclectic collection today Manja. They made me smile. Happy Thursday to you.
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Thank you, Denny, your smile is why I do it. 🙂
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You’ve got some beauties in here, Manja. Split doors and sidelights are always a favorite of mine, and I like blue doors, so I’m in my happy place here!
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Yeahh, Dan, glad to provide a happy place for you, at least on Thursdays.
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These are beautiful doors, Manja. Traffic light doors….genius! Thank goodness the world ends in ice cream….I am ready. 😀
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Hihih, Lois, good to hear. 🙂 That’s two of us then. Thank you!
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Another fine collection. And great back story. I like the vaguely bloody door!
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Haha, thanks, Gavin. Doesn’t it look a bit menacing? 😀
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It does. is that the summer retreat of Count Dracula?
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Possibly. But the light is piercing…
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He only comes out at night!
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I love meandering bus rides!!! These doors are wonderful. A blue church door, wow.
Plus do love the coral background.
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Thank you, Jackie. Always welcome! Slovenia is so little that a 3-hour bus drive is really unnecessary. 🙂 But yeah, if you do it one time only in your life, I suppose it can be scenic.
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Love those doors, Manja. Well done on posting every day this month, that’s some achievement.
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Thanks so much, Jean! It didn’t feel like a chore at all, I never suffered. We shall see how it continues…
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Hmmm, seems as if I should pick some so…I like the mailboxes and the blue doors. 🙂 Ice cream doesn’t sound too good to me today, as we’re experiencing frigid, below zero (F) temperatures here in the Chicago area. But those look like Magnums, which are SO delicious!! Congratulations on the blogging achievement, too.
janet
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Thanks, Janet. I like it the most when it’s tough to choose. 🙂 True I haven’t had any ice cream in a while as well. Above freezing here, but still. This month went by faster than I’d guess.
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I wonder why Piran has such good light. Any ideas? I do like the color coral.
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Thanks, Jan. Oh, it’s on the tip of the peninsula jutting out into the sea, perfectly positioned for the sunset. Only Italy beyond.
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Didn’t know about your new blog! Inviting, and you can’t go wrong with the areas you live and go to (especially for the ones who are in the polar vortex now – unheard temps and wind chill!). Piran looks lovely, even though you probably are a long time in the bus to get there (am trying not to ask question – haha). A great record, the opposite here with blogging in January!
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Thank you, Junieper, and welcome to my new coral blog! Oh, I’m not in Piran right now, these photos are from the summer. I suppose it’s quite chilly and windy there right now. Winters are not fun there. As for here in the south of Tuscany, we are above freezing except in the morning amore must scratch the windshield for some pesky ice. 🙂 Ah, such hard conditions. 😉
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Yes that Shakespeare doors is my choice for winner from this batch, and that is one serious looking ghost door too. As always a lovely collection.
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Thank you, Norm. Much fun was had as every Thursday and you are the reason. 🙂 *Sends a snow-loving flamingo.*
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Love the blue cemetery door — such a great color choice for all that golden stone. Also, it’s big and bold, but the color says hi 🙂
Ghost door is a great find!
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Thanks, Joey. The color says hi! What a great way to describe it. 🙂 The ghost door is just opposite the cemetery. If you come here, you can get two in one. 😉
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Another wonderful feast of doors.
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Thanks, Scooj. Piran delivers. I have so many more from here to show.
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I noticed your new front page before this post and I was admiring the style! I’ve thought about switching but that’s as far as I’ve went haha Lovely doors as always!!
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Thank you, Katy, I’m glad you did. 🙂 I’m happy with this theme, even though the formats of individual posts are a bit limited.
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Good to know! Formats have changed on mine as well so guess I’ll stay put and not struggle with new stuff for awhile at least. Enjoy your day!!
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Definitely beautiful light. I like the double blue doors on the overhead terrace. In fact I like the whole photo 🙂
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Thanks, Joanne. Do you mean the Shakespeare door? I have an article saved that explains its history. These are indeed Othello and Desdemona, I was not being cute.
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I had to go back and take another look, and omg – I hadn’t noticed the heads above the doors!! Now I like the doors even more! What an interesting find 🙂
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