Your FLAT STANLEY came all the way to Solkan, a 1000-year old town in Slovenia.

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4B: We were very excited when our teacher told us about the special flat boy from Canada, We planned together what to show him and how to do it. Our teacher copied the image and we coloured it in pairs.

When we finished we chose three best and they were plastificated.

While he was here, these are some of the exiting things he saw and did:

1. He visited our Solkan Primary School, Slovenia and our English classroom.

2. We took him to our stone bridge with the biggest stone arch in Europe. This bridge is also a symbol of our school logo.

3. He went with us to the 1st world war military  graveyard which is close to the bridge which is only partly preserved, because of the bombing of the Solkan bridge in the Second World War.

The graveyard is near our famous Solkan bridge and we can visit it only if we cross the railway. There are sixteen lines of eighty-five tombstones. A big, almost twelve metres tall monument and a specially arranged vault is the main part of the graveyard.

4. We admired our emerald the river  Soca together where our school friends compete in Kayak.

5. Virtually we took him to Lipica about 40 km away from us to the home of the Lipizzaners – white beautiful horses.

6. Then we visited Postojna Cave (50 km away). The mysterious Postojna cave world is the part of Slovenia which has been carved, shaped and created by water; deep within these world-famous caves hide the most precious beauty created through millions of years, drop by drop, year after year...

7. Finally we told him something about Slovenia in general and we wished him a nice trip to other students all over the world.

The distance between Toronto, Canada and my city  SOLKAN is approximately 6908 km.

If Flat Stanley came back to visit, he should wear winter clothes and summer clothes because the climate here is different in different seasons. But the climate is quite mild in Solkan. We don’t have snow because we are close to the Adriatic sea.