Lake Bled

Another lovely day in Paradise as they say. We are getting used to these lovely mornings,sunny skies and balmy temperatures but it is all to end when we get to Austria where the forecast is promising a week of rain!!!!
We got organised early for our trip to Lake Bled but missed the nine o'clock  bus by a few minutes so we arranged our travel for tomorrow and sussed out platforms etc.We can walk to the station from our apartment in about twenty minutes.
The bus trip was through lovely countryside,rural landscapes.Fields filled with corn - corn is a favourite fast food here and sold on street stalls.So much for Mac burgers!
The farms seem small but well cared for and homes are large and usually double storyed with gardens,fruit trees and vegetables. The mountains looked quite impressive as they came into sight so we were glad we were not walking in this area.

It took about an hour forty to get to Bled itself and then another few minutes to the lake itself and there was the iconic castle image looming in front of us.
It is impressive but anything like the Ljubljana one we climbed up to last night it may well be a disappointment.
We opted not to visit it but took a boat trip out to the island instead.We were rowed out by a good looking young man who had a traditional style of boat used in the area which is paddled from the back.
You could hire boats and some people even swam to the island.
You had forty minutes to explore the island so we climbed up to the church via the steps and spent some time looking around before having coffee with a walnut cake which is traditional here. We have the recipe to try when we get home.
Great views from here but the time went quickly and too soon we were gliding back across the lake.
We wandered around the lake shore and checked out the stalks etc and caught the bus back to town later in the afternoon.By then it was very hot and a relief to get out of the heat.
Our last day in Ljubljana so we spent some time wandering past the sights.It is a Sunday and many places are shut for the day but food is still a business and no shortage of places to eat at.
Tonight we ate at the oldest house in town, 1583 it was built and the owner was the famous author who wrote the first books in Slovenia,the alphabet book and the Bible so it felt very authentic and suitable for our last evening here.