Posted on 07/26/2018 8:21:28 AM PDT by simpson96
SEVNICA, Slovenia — Melania cake. Melania cream. Melania wine. Melania tea. Melania slippers. Melania salami. Melania chocolate-coated apple slices.
There are few products that the enterprising burghers of Sevnica, a small, rural Slovenian town where Melania Trump spent her formative years, have not sought to brand in honor of the first lady of the United States.
Copyright restrictions mean that most of the items merely allude to her identity: The wine is called “First Lady,” while the slippers (a silvery number garnished with a fluffy white rabbit’s tail) are called “White House.”
But legal kerfuffles aside, Mrs. Trump has been good for Sevnica (pronounced SEH-oo-nee-tsa) — a town of around 5,000 that sits in a forest-lined river valley some 90 minutes by car from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
The town’s only hotel reopened earlier this year. The annual tourist traffic — helped, of course, by Melania-themed tours — has risen by 15 percent, to 20,000 visitors, in the three years since Mrs. Trump’s husband, then a real estate mogul and a star of reality television, became a front-runner for the presidency.
“After Melania, things really changed,” said Srecko Ocvirk, the town’s mayor. “Now we have tourists from all over the world.”
At Kopitarna, the shoe company that makes the Melania-themed slippers, staff members saluted Mrs. Trump for putting Slovenia on the map. “Many other people,” said Marija Balinc, an export manager, “thought we were called Slovakia.”
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*ping*
3 Euros a slice?................
Based on that COC picture it is quite lively and picturesque.
Looks like a great place to vacation.
Tort looks pretty good as well :)
3 Euros a slice?.
Holy crap — a $150 cake?
To the First Lady's List.
Augusta Aeliana Melania Noricum
(Venerable of the Sun Melania of Slovenia) (Noricum was the Roman name for Slovenia )
That would be 50 very thin slices............
Right — $30 - $40 cake.
Math error.
When I see that photo of the First Lady, I feel a comforting breeze, and I hear beautiful music. I hear something from
Tchikowski’s Sleeping Beauty, “Dance of the Flowers” comes to mind. Of course it’s a silly thing to say, but it’s true.
Can’t you hear it too?
Eastern European countries tend be highly anti-communist. NYT readers don’t understand.
I hear the orchestral version of “Lara’s Theme”.
:-)
Which is still too damn high!..............
That's exactly how I imagined Melania's kisses would taste like.
Yep. Looks yummy!
Who wrote or performed Lara’s Theme?
Looking forward to the day when the First Couple visits her hometown.
Here's an instrumental version by 101 Strings, which I believe comes from the film: Lara's Theme
I loved the children’s reaction when she appeared at a their Christmas event at The White House.
They all gasped and one of them said “She looks like an angel”
Ad they were right.
I wonder if there are any more at home like her?
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