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Published: September 27th 2008
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Logarska Dolina - T K Perk
After a relatively cloudy and cold day yesterday, this morning started bright and clear. I awoke just before sunrise, so I was out in position to get some shots of the sun coming up over the mountains in the east. The panoramic vistas are truly stunning, and the sun picked out some of the detail as it rose.
Breakfast was as before, but this time we found out that the cured meat was called elodec, for which the farm had won many awards, it’s not surprising as it really is good.
Today we decided to take a drive into Solčava, then to Logarska Dolina. The village/town of Solčava was packed. We found out that there was a funeral happening and there were mourners everywhere, carrying large red votives and one enormous wreath of laurel leaves and bright yellow flowers.
Clare managed to find post cards and stamps, which were duly written and posted. Then it was off to Logarska.
You have to pay €6 to get into the valley, which goes towards its’ up-keep, but it is worth every penny. It is truly wonderful. It starts as quite a wide plain, with hay meadows
and grazing cattle and as you climb up, it becomes more wooded with the dry river bed of the Savinja running through it, the water is underground at this time.
At the top of the valley is a car park (fortunately as it would have been quite a trip otherwise) where we had a brew! We had brought with us a little camping stove, Yorkshire Tea and Carte Noir Coffee granules! It was almost as good as the views; Clare had been without proper tea for two days and was complaining of ‘terrible’ headaches, caffeine withdrawal symptoms!
Once refreshed, we walked the last 10 min's to the Rinka Waterfall (Slap Rinka in the local language, who Rinka was and why she needed a slap we’re not sure and sadly it wasn’t in the tourist brochure). It is a very tall waterfall, 90m or so, but I’m not sure it was spectacular; the little cafe to the right of it was though. It perches high up on the cliff edge, buttressed out over the side of the fall.
Running level with the main road though the upper Savinja Valley is a road which is called the Panoramic Road, this is no lie. It starts at Solčava rapidly gaining height as it winds its’ way to Podolševa. It overlooks the whole of the Savinja Valley plus the beginnings of the Logarska and Matkov Valleys. It is rather rough and pot-holed but well worth the drive.
Supper back at the farm started again with soup (chicken broth with what we hope was ‘shredded’ pasta) we were then confronted with the most enormous pizza, how Pizzahut would describe it, one shudders to think. It was obviously cooked in a large roasting tin, from fresh bread dough and topped with tomato and parmesan, but it was about three if not four inches thick, it tasted exceedingly good. With it we had a green salad with shredded pickled turnip or kohlrabi; I think the latter as it is mentioned in many of the food books. We gave up on the wine this time and gallantly asked for two beers please, ‘Dva pivo proseem’, it worked.
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