Thursday Doors, 15/3/18: Women’s Doors, part 2

I continue my celebration of worthy women by way of doors, which I started last week. And it’s not the end.

Not only will there be part 3, an all-male doors post is coming up too.

Credit where credit is due: there are certain shout-outs that have to be made, considering that you, online friends and bloggers, provide my (almost only) contact with the outside word on a daily basis. In my opinion, the key for a satisfied life is the selection of who you surround yourself with.

Last week’s post was without (m)any names but I thought about it and I’ve realised that for a blogger to not include a pingback is worth less than a pat on the back. Apparently I was a bit too mysterious and women didn’t recognise themselves. 😀

Since I think that all of you would benefit by knowing who I am shouting out to, this time I’m giving out names. It’s on you to connect each of the names with their door.

But first, these are the women who got a door last Thursday (that is, the ones who blog). Each link leads to a favourite post.

• Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That?
• Donna at TheMaremmaGuide
• Joanne at My Life Lived Full
• Joey at Joeyfully Stated
• Liz at Fetching the World
• Melinda Green Harvey at One Day | One Image
• The Snow Melts Somewhere
• Susanne at Wuthering Bites

And now to today’s dedications. (Do you also have a feeling that I like to people-manage? Better than people-watch! :D)

First the doors with the captions, and then the names listed at the end for you to play matchmaking.

Thank you all, including all the ones not featured (yet), for being my own representation of humanity. You can tell what a great world I’m having.

Let’s start in London for a change: a photo from the last time I visited my friend who dared to marry a Scotsman. They scuba dive together and one time when they met a huge shark he told her that she was now the second biggest creature in the ocean.

My other university friend will possibly complain: “Why do I get the school?” Well, now it’s mighty fancy compared to the old days. (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana). You are in Brussels, by the way. What is it with Slovenia that doesn’t keep its bees at home?

This was my home before moving to Italy. This photo is for a friend who visited me often and brought her own beer. She is also known for naming her Peugeots. What came after Peggy and Pegasus?

This bookshop in Maribor, just below my grandma’s apartment, is for my friend who lives for the written word. When I first heard her recite her poem, I described it as shooting with words. They always hit. I see your language is missing, let’s amend this: пишан збор (I hope!).

This is funny: my dad speaks more French than English and he reads it in English, for me is the opposite and I read it in French. I wonder how Cat would read it or would she merely laugh. As if you could put her in her place. (It is in Piran.)

This is urgent: the right, badass door for a world-hopping woman who just had a break-in. Try it, maybe you can even travel in this thing. (As seen in Ljubljana.)

This is for a woman who I haven’t known for long but the way she writes was an instant hook: be it about dumplings, Finland or her garden. Be, travel, spoke. This is the door of my favourite old book shop “Trubarjev antikvariat” in Ljubljana.

She catches love signs for us and currently fights winter photo conditions, so I thought this view out of Hotel Piran on the Slovenian coast might cheer her up.

She brings us doors, art and nature from Paris and beyond. Her views and discipline have often inspired me. This is in Metelkova City in Ljubljana.

This “Embassy of Health”, found in Maribor, Slovenia, is for my faraway friend who has something of the same energy about her as this woman. And this is even before she starts to sing.

Let’s move to Italy now. This must be for my only Italian (blogging) friend and she doesn’t even live near. One day… She is young and yet knows so much already. I just hope she isn’t fed up with pizza! 😀 Taken in Monteverde, Rome.

She first got my attention with her posts about my Pitigliano doors. Then I often laughed over her humour, frame of mind and literary reviews. Slavs have a way of coming together no matter where they live.

Speaking of which, this almost pink door is for another soul-searching Slav. And she finds it too no matter where you put her, north or south. This is from Trastevere in Rome.

I remember her loving this Dantesque photo by our railway station in the early days of my blogging. (The door says “Who enters dies” and it’s not street art.) She has a soft and gentle way about her. Must be from daily walks with her dog in the beautiful woods.

This is our vet in Pescia Romana and my friend, who has had dogs forever, will know best how important such a door can be. I will never forget that first postcard – was it Barcelona or Turkey? – when I realised that for you our school fantasies are beginning to come true.

She can do it all and she will: cook, garden, sew, make cosmetics, write and on and on. I thought this Roman door might tickle the artist in her. I’m certainly glad that we have reconnected after all this time since high school. FB IS good for some things.

And the same goes for my other high school friend: ben ritrovata! This is an example of a place where I’d take you to (in Civitavecchia). “Sala degustazioni” sounds just right. But you know it just as well as I do.

She was here yet, dressed in colour code of Capalbio for the occasion. She liked the sunflowers and the sunset, drove me around and made wicked pizza, for which I thank her.

I could leave this here as a totally unrelevant photo and let you guess who it is for but I know that she would immediately correct that to “irrelevant”. Think about it, to how many people in your life can you gift toilet photos? (Hotel Piran, Slovenia)

And finally, this Roman door is for everybody but especially for an American rose in the UK who needs all the peace and good in this world right now. ❤ (Only now I realise that the last two women have much in common.)

And here as promised is the alphabetic list of blogs run by these women (those who do). Even though the third part will follow, there is no way I could include all that I visit more or less regularly. Thank you to everybody!

• Ann-Christine at To See a World in a Grain of Sand
• Bespoke Traveller
• catlaughing
• Ellen Hawley at Notes from the U.K.
• Judith at Beyond the Window Box
• Lexie at One Foot Out the Door
• two poems by Lidija Dimkovska
• Marina at Me Exploring
• Mateja’s FB page full of goodies 
• raynotbradbury
• Robin at A Lingering Rose
• Sara at The Rover in Leather Jacket
• Vanessa at Do What You Wish

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.