A Post-Hivebuzz Layover in Maribor
Wow, that was one hell of a (buzz)party in Graz! Booking an early morning buzz, oh, I mean a bus (still a bit buzzed!) to Maribor was hardly the brightest move ever, but hey, I am a traveler deep in my fishy beer-soaked soul! And since you’ve read some posts from the party, all green in envy for not coming and feeling blue for staying home, or you even sneakily stalked the Telegram or Discord groups, you know all the publishable bits of what you missed, and some rumors perhaps. I won’t waste your time with that, and unveil a sneak peek of Slovenia instead. I witnessed the firefighters' revolution there. They were swapping flags for some reason.
The town felt oddly empty with no amazing Hiveans around – and I was in a melancholic mood after sleeping just a few hours (I’d slept even less if the only bar sheltering night wanderers of Graz didn’t shut at two sharp - Sleep’s overrated!) to catch my bus. It dropped me right in front of a house where Nikola Tesla allegedly stayed – just a boring real estate agency nowadays. I felt more in need of surreal estates than these real ones, though, and left it behind for others to explore.
Rather than ticking off the usual tourist spots, I wandered the streets and the city park randomly—I’ve always preferred being a traveler to a tourist—so here’s an unconventional report of what caught my eye in the park. Like a fish swimming alongside a turtle.
They chilled in a pond in the park, which even apparently @ninaeatshere approves. I guess its just the perfect spot for picnics.
I nearly took the Via Crucis path through vineyards on the Maribor outskirts, but I wasn’t prepared to face the midday sun atop Golgotha Hill—no desire to add my skull to the others on the Hill of Skulls. Oh yes, it's somewhere up there!
Instead, I took the promenade back downtown, passing what looked like another god—or perhaps just a nude kid with a drinking problem, who am I to judge?—before heading straight for a piano to snap a shot for @mipiano.
Art in the streets, you say? Oh, there’s plenty of that in Maribor. Let’s start with some words of wisdom adorning bland walls.
Other walls are invaded by giant ants.
Let's move forward to the nook of vice with a genuine 1990s sex shop. It is no match for the 24/7 kurwa & sex toy place in Graz!
And now for something serious for a change: the Old Bridge and its riverside bank, where I ended up playing frisbee with the founder of Maribor’s top spot. Stay tuned for my next Beersaturday post—yes, it’s a craft microbrewery (did you expect anything less?)—and keep an eye out for the swan that collects toll at the foot of the little pedestrian bridge below the old one.
If you ever find yourself walking the riverbank, don’t miss the world’s oldest grapevine. It’s been growing and bearing fruit for over 400 years. Not a typo, it has been there for 4 centuries.
So much for wandering the town. Stay tuned for the brewery :)
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Dodatečně ještě dík za reprezentaci české vlajky v Grazu - co jsem tak zběžně proletěl reporty od různých přátel tady z Hive, to byla asi dost povedená akce :)
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Byla to jízda, bylo to parádní :))
To věřím :) Co do účasti to byla zřejmě podobně velká akce jako krakowský HiveBeeCon na podzim 2023, Gandalf ti možná vyprávěl :) Tenkrát to bylo taky super... Inu, výhoda naší malé Evropy - všude je to blízko :)
Myslím, že nás mohlo být tak čtyřicet, ale ne všichni se zdrželi celou dobu :)
Ona je sice malá, ale zrovna ten Graz je tak nešikovně umístěný, že průměrná doba cesty byla snad deset hodin. Sedm hodin vlakem z Prahy bylo ještě docela komfortních.
Jo, v Krakowě nás tenkrát taky bylo zhruba 40. No vidíš, tak to se přímo nabízí, aby příští evropský Hive meet up byl v Praze :) To bych si případně mohl zařídit nějaké to volníčko :)
Chvilku jsem o tom přemýšlel, ale kdo z místních (myšleno českého rybníčku) by se něčeho takového asi zúčastnil? Bylo by celkem smutné, mít party v Česku se dvěma Čechy.
To je fakt. Dobrá dopravní dostupnost je sice fajn, ale ta absence místních Hivers by byla trochu trapná :/ Asi bude lepší tyhle věci opravdu nechat těm silnějším regionálním komunitám.
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funny to see that "sex shop" is the same in almost every language 😂
And yet you don't really need anything written there to grasp what the place is right :)
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I miss playing catch with the frisbee. I don't really have anyone I can do it with to much anymore. I guess that is part of the reason I have started playing disc golf more in the past couple of years. It's not quite the same, but still a lot of fun. This looks like a beautiful area. I envy the folks who live in Europe that get to have these meetups all the time. We don't do things like this in the US for HIVE, I am guessing due to the distances or something.
Heh, most people traveled for like 10 hours to get there - I spent seven hours on a train to Graz, and then eight on a bus on the way home from Maribor, and it was below average I guess. So these distances are pretty relative :) If there was a meetup in one of the major cities with well-connected airports, you could actually get there faster than most of us to Graz :)
I see. The state I live in it can take you 10 hours to get from just one side to the other. That's just one state. Planes do seem to make things a bit easier! I'm glad you were able to attend either way.
The ancient grapevine really caught my attention! It's so amazing! You're lucky to be in Maribor, that vine must be so famous since it's a Guinness record holder as the world's oldest vine. I have always been fascinated by things with historical significance, and your grapevine in Maribor is one of these amazing ancient sentinels. Silently and steadfastly, this grapevine has witnessed what happened there through the ages, and if it can only tell a story, I would be very lucky and glad to listen to it. Thank you for sharing, this is one of the treasures of Maribor! 😊
Nina approves the place, and I approve the piano. 😁
Nina is going to approve the place from my next post - wait for it ;)
I expected to see much busier city vibes from Maribor... Or you picked those quiet places to visit, or the city is like that, but I really like its vibe... Those countryside photos are astonishing!!! The only thing missing on that green grass is Hivians having a picnic! 😂
It's a town rather than a city; and I guess most people left it for the super-nice summerish weekend anyway.
Yes! We should have occupied it!
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Swan?! I knew we were living hard times, but hadn't realized it was this bad. Not even trolls are safe anymore. Sheesh.
Pretty town.
Also, don't say 24/7 sex toy and kurwa place like that...people will start wondering just what kind of buzzparty it was :))
The Swan collects tolls, not trolls as I believe. It might be a Cygnet Committee official or something ;)
So how would you present it more decently, or perhaps more ladyish?
Yes, but what does that leave the poor trolls? Look at you making references you're much too young for. Or perhaps you're really a very old, crinkly man with an unwrinkly face and impeccable moisturizing habits.
More decently, perhaps I'd say that round-the-sun where gentlefolk of lonely disposition might relieve some tension by use of pleasurable contraptionsin the company of amenable dames.
As for the ladily, you'd have to ask a lady. :P
And yet you decipher these references!
I reckon I'll approach the AI waiter, who might secretly be a frequent customer, and consult the definition of yours. It wasn't so for from thr marvelous inn with such a cleverly placed emergency door after all.
Maybe I'm old, too.
Already planning a Graz encore, are you? That door might not have led very far in the physical plane, but it might just have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
P.S. Let me know what he says. Preferably not in ones and zeroes.
I'm not planning on another seven hour drive just to see that friendly face, I thought I might make a few calls, reserve a random number of tables and seats (maybe 6 tables and 4 seats) and then, once we've established that friendship, ask for the best 24/7 venue offering gentlemen's pleasure in the area. Wink wink (yes, winking on the phone ain't easy, and he might easily miss it).
6 tables 4 seats is just savage. Aren't you worried you'll send him into overdrive with that and he'll misunderstand entirely? He might think you're hitting on him. Worse, with no gentleman in sight, he might break down and start questioning his own existence and autonomy from the disembodied winking-blinking voice on the telephone.
I'd swear to put the tables togerther, so there's no space fot other seats. And I'll keep you in the loop, of course :)
Nice try. I'm probably just a buffer in case the AI Waiter Society decides to come after you with everything it's got. 😈
Well, actually, this gave me an idea. I just need something like this, but large enough, and another trip to Graz.
:))) maybe he'd seen this too. Maybe the joke was on us, after all.
Also, what about distraction? How are you gonna put up the wall and divert his attention both at once?
Ps. You re just looking for excuses to return to Graz. Admit it. :P
With the lights out, it's less dangerous. I'll place it under cover of darkness, naturally. Witching hour suits my plans!
I might pass by on my next journey to Maribor :))
So that's what that poet meant! Well, good luck to you. Beware you don't reveal yourself though, lest you give the mob a real witch to burn next spring ;)
Burning me? What a waste of fish! They'd rather grill me :))
Ah yes, witch-grilling, the lesser known dark side of history. A shame it didn't catch on.
Revenge is a dish best served cold, yet rumour has it that human flash tastes like a wacky chicken then. Also, it's allegedly better to burn out than to be grilled away.
Wacky fish chicken. The name of a new viral TikTok dance craze.
xD why burn out or be grilled away when you could be swimming happily in a beer pond?
On a more serious note, did you know Neil Young was so saddened by Kurt's suicide, he started prefacing that song at shows with a warning saying yeah, definitely don't take this literally?
We happen to have beer ponds/baths here in Czechia, thanks for mentioning them :) It's a waste of this precious liquid, many people are not really into sipping a pint in which someone macerated first.
That was when Neil was still Young though. He's more like Gary Oldman now. And on that serious note (for the sake of music), I didn't know that.
"Most people" :))) some, I take it, find it all the more tantalizing.
Seriously though, a) why would you need that? And b) is the beer kept cold or more like a tepid pool at the height of summer? If so, who wants to sip hot (sweaty) beer anyway?
It looks somewhat like this. Look at all the shiny happy people there :)
And for that hot beer, it used to be served like that to elderly people. Not kidding! There's this thingy with a cute name, ohříváček, to heat your beer so that it's not that icy cold. You just pour in hot or boiling water, and let the magic happen.
Makes your cleavage grow, also, by the looks of it. If only anyone had told me... I don't trust those pictures tbh. I imagine it's you and three other strangers, each sitting inside his own vat of warm beer, looking awkward as hell. Or drunk as hell. Or in rare instances, both?
Ohříváček does sound cute (not sure about the hot beer, though). Have you tried it?
That's what beer consumption does, and it doesn't only work for cleavage. You can gain nasty beerceps if you keep lifting pints.
I've actually never been in such spa, so I cannot judge. The procedure comes with unlimited beer consumption though, so you don't really have to sneakily suck from your bath. Drunk as hell it is then.
Not really, but I've had some warm beer in my life. They are not that common nowadays, you can only spot them as decoration.
I'll take some beerceps if it also means some brewbs. I ain't picky.
How? Why? Is it because having been raised in the culture since the cradle, you are immune to the touristy charms of Czech beer and instead favor the more flavorful subtleties? (Or, to be fair, the thought that for the same price you can get a fuckton more beer that's probably better? :D)
For a sec I thought you meant you can sport the warm beers as decorations, and as you can imagine, it opened up a whole slew of questions.
Annoyed of being perfect, huh?
It just doesn't feel like my kind of place :) Also, the beer there ain't good, and yes, I can get way better brews for a fraction of the money anyway :)
In the words of the world's greatest genius: Warm beer is worse than a cold German gal. And I can only humbly add that neither would make it as a good decoration.
Oh, and who's this reclusive genius? He seems to hold such wisdom. Also, you're no longer really allowed to keep girls as decoration, man. Unless you're Hugh Hefner or somebody, and he's dead, so that'd now be reaaaally weird.
Awww you think I'm perfect? Would you please tell my parents?
Jára Cimrman himself, of course. It always strikes me as a surprise how little credit he gets in some countries. Just in a few though, he's not reputed in merely a tad over 190 of them.
I am not Hugh Hefner, but wait, I am somebody! And I might pretend to be dead inside if it works. Staring contest style.
Sure! How come they haven't noticed yet? Too humble to reveal the little secret?
How did I not known about this guy? This is so freaking awesome 🤩 Next time I visit the Czech Republic, I'm going on a quest to find little nooks and crannies dedicated to this guy. What a crazy idea. Just my kind of thing. And yeah, with such an impressive list of achievements, no wonder he was so wise as well.
Haha coulda fooled me. But only just for a second. Too much somebody trying to peek out. Probably not Hefner, no, but still so much of true self concealed. A job for a hundred staring contests to uncover.
And they have noticed, of course. I just like reminding everyone 👑
There’s even an English version of one or two plays with seminars on the Mister’s life. I’ll look for them later today if you mean it :) it’s like Czech Monty pythons.
If I mean it? I've been looking to beef up my list of reasons to go back there for two years :))) And "it's just so nice" is a flimsy reason, to be fair. So yes please, if and when you have time.
No shows online, only some in Czech with rather goofy semi-automated subtitles, where jokes aren't handled well :/
Ah yes, much as I love a good goofy caption, I think I'll save myself for a proper representation. There's time. I'm sure I'll come across him in some point or another.
Love the pictures you've capture. Thanks for sharing!
If things are done small, they aren't done at all!
Talk about street words of wisdom!
Seems you had a great time and I love that swan, looks like she is nesting, so is that what she takes the toll for!
Roll on the brewery...
I did have a great, melancholic time after the party :) The brewery post is going to be publish on... well Saturday, obviously :))
Amazing blog
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Dík :) Mohl sis to nechat pro nějaký článek s menším payoutem, tenhle už má dost slušnou odměnu :)
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Samozřejmě, že nevadí :)
Damn man those ants look very realistic. Wandering a city is enjoyable. I really love to do that. Every photo you've taken looks awesome, That bridge views especially
It's rather a town than a city, but I did enjoy roaming it for sure, even though I was in that melancholic mood after leaving everybody in Graz :)
Seems like a very nice day! Loved the pics and the write-up!
I'm glad you liked it :)
Makes me realize I need a bit of travel and wandering.
Do go for it! :)
I do have a trip coming up in a couple of weeks, so I will need to plan an excursion or two!
And don't forget Hive Fest in Kuala Lumpur!
Yeah. Don't know if I will be able to get off for that one or not! 😒
Wow I see! I like your traveler way of visiting :)
Thanks for all your traveling tips :)
I'll be glad if I could ever inspire you :)
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I always say, travelling with you is a lot of fun and you learn a lot. Awww... The swan, the 🐢 and the fish are beautiful details.
Hey, after so many years does one get sweet or sour? I ask because of the grapes. 🤭
Paso por la cervecería luego.
People in the buzzparty considered me rathrer sweet I must admit :)
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