Blogs from Bled, Upper Carniola, Slovenia, Europe - page 5

On this European journey, I made the decision to take a day trip to Bled; more specifically, Lake Bled. Before I left on my journey, I read a little bit about the beauty of Lake Bled, and the custom done at the church there. I was eager to see the lake, as like other places I have been, pictures just are not the same as the real thing. I arrive via bus from Ljubljana eager to get my adventure started. The first decision is where to go. I depart the bus and follow the masses. I knew I wanted to see the famous Lake Bled church, but I knew it would be quite a ways off in the distance. At any rate, I wanted to see it. When I went down a little side road, I ... read more

Geo: 46.3607, 14.0786As we drove the transfer from Croatia into Slovenia on Monday we couldn't think of any famous Slovenians, but given that this country has a population of just 2 million perhaps that is not surprising. This is doing them an injustice really as we have since learned that since 1960 they have won several Olympic medals for rowing, and have the beautiful Lake Bled as their national training ground - right outside the gates of the campsite.Camp Bled is on the opposite side of the lake to the town but not too far, so yesterday after a drive out to our first Lidl of the trip and a bumper shop (David said he hadn't seen me so excited about grocery shopping for ages - decent fresh produce and a good range of meat seems ... read more

Geo: 46.3683, 14.1147 GÜN 51 GÜNLERDEN CUMA: Yağmura uyandık ..Saat 08.00 e kadar idarenin açılmasını bekledim.. Paramızı ödedik ve yola revan olduk. Yol çok düzgün, ama yakıt fiyatları çok pahalı.. Koklaya koklaya alıyorum ..Umarım Slovenya da daha ucuzdur.. Hududa girmeden önce, aç gözlü Avusturyalılar, tünelden geçecek domuzlardan 7 euroluk bir kıl koparmayı ihmal etmediler elbette. Tünelin adı sözde "Karavancılar tüneli" ama bence adı “Deli Dumrul tüneli” olarak değiştirilmeli… Tünel 'in ucu aydınlık mı diyorsunuz ?? Siz daha çok beklersiniz ..Slovenler bıçağı bilemiş seni bekliyor olacaklar .. 15 E yol parası kestiler .. İster birkaç saat kal ister bir ay para fix..Kalsaydın efendim diyorlar … Bugün ulufe dağıtma günümüz.. Olsun be!!! bizi yıldıramıyacaklar ../... read more

"First, we had a 30 minute drive from Lake Bohinj to Lake Bled. Then when we got to our destination we took a little boat ride to a little island to see a church, a museum, and bell tower. The church was pretty cool because it had a rope that you pull to make the bell ring. At first I did it and it was hard. But then my dad did it and he did it perfectly. Then I tried and I did it. At the bell tower it was pretty cool because it had this little thing that showed how the bell tower worked and how it rung. At the museum, there were these dolls from all over Europe. We made a video that we were next to the dolls and I had to say ... read more

I ought to be writing about Plitvice Lakes following our visit to Zagreb, as we travelled down to central Croatia to a campsite in the Plitvica Jezera national park with the intention of visiting the awesome lakes and waterfalls but once we pitched up the weather turned and we sat inside our van looking out at some torrential storms, the hailstones were as big as marbles (and as loud, hitting our roof!) so, after a couple of days of this we packed up and headed back up to Slovenia for our next planned stop at Lake Bled. Bled is situated in the North Western corner of Slovenia where the Julian Alps begin to rise higher, to say the scenery and the lake is the stuff of fairy tales is an understatement! The lake has a circumference ... read more