Happy New Year!

Angels, oranges, candles, ribbons, trinkets and ornaments, and other decoration were set throughout the hotel for the holiday season. The photos will hopefully bring some of the festive spirit from Grand Hotel Toplice also to you.

I wish that the year 2009 will be one of those years we will always remember with a smile.

Happy New Year to all of you my dear blog readers!

Concert

We had a really lovely concert in the hotel on Saturday. Mrs. Alenka Zupan on flute and Mr. Denys Masliuk on piano were performing the following program:

Charles Gounod: Ave Maria (On the Prelude of J. S. Bach)
Robert Schumann: Drei Romanzen, op. 94
Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise op. 34, no. 14
Gaetano Donizetti: Sonate
Astor Piazzolla: Ave Maria
Wihelm Popp: Staccato Fantasy

Luckily our “Lake lounge” is very acoustic and suitable for classical concerts. I must confess I enjoyed the concert very much. This is an advantage of being a hotel manager: You get to listen to great concerts as a part of your job!

Christmas time is here!

Father Christmas came to visit us at the Grand Hotel Toplice. He brought with him a group of wonderful young singers that sang Christmas songs to our guests.
Happy Christmas to you all!!!!

Japanese garden has a new story

My employees never cease to amaze me with their ideas. Here is a fine example:

Robert, our gardener, finished reading a book about Japanese gardens, kindly provided by our guest Mr. K. (Thank you Sasha!)

Robert decided to renovate the garden by placing the stones in a new position. This position was inspired by a 19th Century Slovene poem »The Baptism at The Savica«, where each stone represents one of the main characters from the poem thus creating an interesting story with the Japanese garden.

Pictures of Robert in the process of creation are attached.

Italian

Many of our guests come from Italy. In fact, during this New Year's hollidays , Grand Hotel Toplice will host mostly Italian guests. This is one of the reasons why I decided to brush up my knowledge of Italian language and started to take leasons.

Below text in Italian is for Monica Z., a regular guest of Grand Hotel Toplice:

" Cara Monica! I risotti erano buonissimi! Grazie mille!

L'albergo è gia addobbato per le feste di Natale e Capodanno.

Tanti saluti, Petra."