• Donuts and Trout

    May 3 in Slovenia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Slovenian breads and pastries bread 🍞 Being Sunday we had to travel a bit further for our carb-fuelled fast break. Pistachio donuts yes please !!!! Soft folds of filo encasing fresh cheese, Milka filled croissants. We were in pastry heaven and weren’t even allowed to buy the bananas, no they were whisked away as we didn’t write the price on them. Would just have to be donut manna for today 🥳

    Feeling guilty we planned a trek after finally waking sleeping beauty as 10am. Bill suggested we check Eric was breathing. Nice 9k hike, dodging cyclists and some hearty beef goulash and sausage for lunch after visiting the ‘springs’.

    Intrigued by the apparent wildness of your Slovenian 🇸🇮 Unusual tattoos and piercings, to say nothing of crazy undercuts. Note to self to check previous Eurovision entries 😝 There is also very little eye contact which is a direct contrast to the ‘baleful’. But they have been friendly and helpful and we loved them, antics and all ! After more pasta and mushroom soup we gladly crashed after successfully staying up late enough to beat the jet lag. Managed to catch the culprit of the poo smells! A late afternoon walk to the church in the cemetery resulted in strange looks from the locals who had not seen people sitting in the paddock before 🫣
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