Bled

Today I woke up and was not feeling the best. Yesterday my one ear was hurting and wouldn’t clear, not that unusual for me, but this morning my voice was all weird and my head stuffed up and throat sore so in scraped the plans for the day (another gorge hike) and rested this morning and then we headed on to Lake Bled once more (with a quick stop at a bridge as it had a parking lot and a viewing platform and everything!).

I hadn’t slept well last night partly because a giant thunderstorm came through right over us. Super loud, long rumbles of thunder that sounded like they were flowing down the valley from the mountains!

We relaxed after lunch and then were going to try walking around the lake a little bit as it is flat and I really thought once we got away from the downtown portion there would be more places to sit and enjoy…but there weren’t. You still couldn’t walk on the grass (200 euro fine!!) and there were barely any benches! Plus the benches they do have are like the most uncomfortable benches I’ve ever sat on. It is really like they do not want you to stay and enjoy the water at all. It is so so strange! I do not understand!

There was one sign that said where the swimming areas were…but they were all private? The one was only for guests of the hotel right there…originally I was going to try and walk around the whole lake, but taking lots of rest stops, but there are barely any places to stop so we scrapped that plan. Plus you could see parts of the trail and the other side was all in the trees so no views! Such a strange area. I did wonder if people recommend skipping Bled and going to Jasna because a) you can park close and b) you can actually hang out and enjoy the water!

When we were first going you head out it started to rain so we waited for that to stop, and on the way back to the car we picked up takeout for dinner (we went back to the same Thai place as it was so good! Green curry with tofu and tofu and water spinach which I don’t think I’ve ever had before! Both super tasty! And then picked up some more cream cake). By the time we got back to the car it started raining again! And rained for a long time! It was nice that it waited until we were back :)

Tomorrow we will see how I’m feeling in the morning and what the weather is like and either do something easy in the morning or just start heading for home. I originally planned to do stuff tomorrow and Saturday morning, but then I looked at the drive times and I was like what was I thinking?? We can’t get home Sunday night! That is not enough time to do all the things before returning the van! So we definitely need to start for home tomorrow just unsure if we will do something else first or not. So another fairly lazy day with another short walk :)Read more