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1 1. View of Istrian landscape from our guesthouse 2. The writing team in Mazerige Meet the writing team in Mazerige W elcome to Mazerige, a small the right place to be wading into the ten authors from eight countries, 25 village in Slovenia. We have unknown, with our collective writing. years of Forum Synergies history just arrived from all four corners of Our host offers us pasta with wild and an endless future to somehow Europe in order to write this book and asparagus and sour cream, paired cover. What about our very different to be your guide in this journey. We with her delicious, homemade white personal and professional histories, are happy to have found this place. wine. The dark green of the asparagus writing styles, thematic preferences tastes a little bitter. “No worries,” she and tastes? Whom do we want to guesthouse offers a breathtaking view smiles. “The internet tells us the poison reach in the end? Will we be talking of the slow undulations of the Istrian only really kicks in, if it is harvested too much of our exciting past and landscape as it meets the Adrian too late in the season.” We give it a be boring for the young generation? Sea. Istria straddles three countries: try... and it’s divine! Perhaps our hope What are we going to tell YOU to Croatia, Slovenia and Italy and has to write this book collectively is a make you curious about rural Europe a historically moving story. It is just riskier endeavour. After all, we have and tempt you into travelling with us? Mateja Hrvatin Kozlovič’s 10