Jelovica Bled

... hardy soul swimming in it. 20 deg C water, we were told -- someone out there do the math -- and a video we skipped of the Bled version of Dr. Kellogg, starting his spa there in the mid-19th century. Back down by a different footpath, which brought us to the 4 mile stroll around the lake, so we got to do a bit of it, which was good, because we had to get a move on to make our appointment for dinner at the farm where we were staying.<br><br>Quite the greeting ...

... of the lake. After Gabe managed to get the car up a winding dirt path a ways we ditched it in the woods and hiked the rest of the way up a steep and rocky path that criss-crossed its way up to the most amazing view. There we found ourselves alone and happily gasped for breath while taking in the view of the little island with church, the castle, and the town of ...

... and took pity on us so we were able to get away with only paying for one student ticket (&euro;3) between all three of us. Woohoo! The gorge was pretty impressive yet spooky at the same time. Lots of photos were taken and we walked most of the way through until we got to a waterfall and we decided not to go through the mist getting wet and cold so we turned back. Mario was quite happy to go forth but majority rules. We reached our bikes and started ...

... the road was going to up like this for so we saw a break in the road and aborted our mission!! We turned around and went back down and then we had to through the Italian part of the Alps to get back to Slovenia. These roads were very steep but not 18% thank God, but what they lacked in steepness they made up for in narrowness and winds. So this wasn't the most relaxing drive I tell you what, I actually had to have a few sneaky swigs out of our hazelnut ...

... Drolc family in their village of Komenda. The countryside here is hard to describe. There are the Alps, plush green hills, vibrant colored flowers, and about a one hour drive away is the Adriatic sea. Yesterday, Wednesday, we traved to the village of Piron which is on the sea. So, basically, we had lunch right on the Adriatic. The color of the water is a deep blue. The city of Piron looks a lot like a seaside village in Italy. In fact, I think it looks ...

... schnapps! We wandered around the market and Ljubljana again today. There was a Tyrolean sort of band playing near our hotel in the Kongresni Trg this morning and more folk dancing near the market (this being the big market day!). We had coffees at our regular Kavarna this afternoon and lunch at a really good Slovenian family restaurant where everything is made fresh on the ...

26th - 29th August 2007. Crossing the border into Slovenia went from a run of the mill border crossing into a fiasco within seconds. "Turn it off, now" said the border official. I turned to see Mandy holding the video camera recording our crossing. Uh Oh! We had been videoing the countryside when all of a sudden the border gates loomed around a corner. We shot a bit of video of me holding the passports as we approached the border but I thought Mandy would have put the camera ...

... ride out to the country. Saddled up the horses and then headed off. I ended up being the only one who wanted to still go so it was just me and the guide. My horse was great but I had to wear a huge black garbage bag type poncho that the horse was scared off. She was ok until a vehicle would pass and the wind would make the poncho fly up, then she would get spooked and take off running. Scared the **** out of me the first time! Actually it did the 2nd ...

... mushroom soup in a bread 'bowl'. Jason - this might even be a closer representation of what you had at the Irish Pub....then he had some kind of pork and grilled vegetables. I had a cottage cheese type thing - it was interesting but not as good as I had hoped. Then I wanted to stop at a few places again from the past days and Jim had some things that he wanted to do - so we split up - by that time the rain had stopped and it was a lot ...

... dark. We decided to head to Auto Camp Sirena about 27 kms from Split as Mike and Caroline had told us that this place was magic!! We finally found it and it was so dark we could not see where we were going and ended up going down a very steep hill towards the harbor and I managed to get Wayne to stop before we went any further and could not get back up the hill!!! It was so steep and I thought we were going to plummet over the edge!! Well Wayne did a spectacular 10 point turn and we ...