This blog post comes from our hostel room in Bled, in the Slovenian Alps. We have had abnormally hot weather up until now - peaking at 34 degrees! However, we are now sitting through the biggest thunderstorm we have ever seen... hopefully it will all pass by tomorrow night when we will be staying in a tent!!
Anyway, en route to Bled we spoke to a Slovenian couple on the train who insisted that the first thing we did when we arrived was seek out the legendary Bled Cake. Reluctantly (NOT) we tracked down the Park Hotel (where the cake was born 60 years ago) and ordered one each...
It was Mary's idea of heaven... basically two layers of puff pastry filled with custard and cream = nom nom.
...all full up we set off to explore the surroundings! Lake Bled really is as beautiful as we envisaged. The lake is in a valley surrounded by the Julian Alps...
...has a fairytale-esque island in the centre of the crystal clear turquoise lake...
...and an ancient castle built on the cliff face overlooking the lake.
After our exploration we had a celebratory chinese (congratulations Emily!) at the restaurant next to our hostel. As you will see there are no photos of this meal - this is because the food was terrible! We do not wish to discuss this any further as we both still bitter about the experience. Nevertheless, we had a 'lol' moment when Sam played the ignorant tourist and "couldn't understand" when the waitress jestured to round the bill up for a tip (N.B. the bill was 30euro..and we were not full!)
Today we spent some more time around the lake and rented a swan called Max...
Max was a beast to steer but Sam did a wonderful job there and back!!! (Mary supervised of course)
After a hard couple of hours rowing Sam cooled his feet in the lake in preparation for his next challenge: 3 days of driving through TopGear-alicious alpine roads.
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