Here are some pics of the most beautiful part of the world...Lake Bled in Slovenia...Enjoy.
Had breakfast in this super duper hostel kitchen and prepared to go for a quick walk and come back to go to the gorges and to the Lake with the owner of the hostel...back by about 11am I was planning!
I walked out the hostel doors and...OMGoodness...I was in camera land!
I kept staring at the post card views in front of me...Wow!
I wandered past a cemetery...best views in the country...
It was a beautiful sight...
So, I left the 3 pics I took so you could share this magical spot with me...
The best kept cemetery I have ever seen...
I just kept on walking along a narrow road through empty fields, thinking I'd turn around at the end of it and go back...
Past an orchard of some type...
Past little houses dotted here and there along the way...
Past a few bigger ones...
What a view...and suddenly I noticed I was in another town!
...and I looked up and gasped in wonderment...I had not really come to see the Castle on the rock, a million miles up in the sky...but if I got a chance I would have liked to have a cup of tea in the tower, whilst gazing at the scenery...
Wow! That's a steep climb there.
Then I saw a dome shaped building (landmarker time for me if I got lost later on) which had an ice skating rink in it...
Then I continued my wander along the path...
Looked back to get an outside shot of the building...
Then walked a few more steps and suddenly I'm right on the shores of Lake Bled. I have arrived. The castle sits majestically over everything below...
The ducks were out for their early morning stroll and swim too...
I had no food for him so he was off in a hurry!
Just walking around the Lake, seeing as I'm here...It's only 6 klm, so here goes.
Imagine this in summer...the place is packed.
The sign won me over to Slovenia...Hot wine and tea. It was hard to get a cuppa in Prague, easier in Vienna, but here, it's easy!
I came to get a picture of an island in the lake...I'm hoping it's bigger than this one!
Then I saw a track leading up the vertical incline and thought I'd go check it out...That's the Castle you can just see up top...
Then the track became steeper and turned into stairs...hundreds of them...
Going upwards and onwards...
Arghhhh...they say never to look down...I hate heights like this...
So I kept on looking up and lo and behold...the castle looms ahead.
It's not that big, but so majestically situated, it's a work of genius, the labour involved building it 1002 years ago.
So I paid the 8Euro to go in...
And looked over the walls...wow!
Even the car park has a great view...
Looking back from where I've come from...
This is a real picture with my little camera...Awesome!
Now I'm going even higher...
Frosty is waiting with a coldie!
Headed towards the tower for that cuppa...
Now thems bottles! The one in the middle is a normal 750 ml bottle of champers... Imaging how much damage the big ones would do!
Going higher again...
Don't look over the edge Mary...so put your camera over instead and hope for the best!
There it is...that little spot out there. The island with a church on it and would you believe...only 99 steps to the top of it?
Which table for a cuppa? My batteries went flat here and they let me recharge while I had a cuppa and wandered around...
The inside view outwards...
This might be better?
After an hour I was charged up again...
The sun was higher and more people were coming in now. I put the camera over the walls again!
Using close up setting...I almost got the shot I wanted...but it has no mountains in the background...yet!
A tour operator from Turkey, took some shots for me, saying which are the best poses etc!
Now it's time for some lunch...
First a trip to the little girls room...
Then a quick trip to the museum for a look out the centuries old glass windows.
Taken through another window...
This is really a room with a view! 1647.
That's the only view out of the little loo window.
A nice piece of evening wear...
The Kings eating utensils, some from 1000 years ago to more recent times...
Couldn't read what this was, but it was pretty.
The sun room in the old castle.
Looking out the top windows...
It's really spectacular views...
The church from another level in the castle grounds...
You just can't get enough of this view...
The tower cafe is closed for winter...
So, I went half way up anyways...Love these little doors over here.
This used to be the old jail, but it was remodeled a few hundred years ago...
Coming back down from the tower...stairs and more stairs to-day.
The by chance I stopped and chatted to this nice young guy. Turns out he does what my Dad used to do back in 1927? onwards to 1940 ?ish...Type setting.
He let me press the impression I was having hand made for my sister...I'm a bit scared about this whole thing...will it break?
So he said "no...pull harder!"
Then he melted wax and I stamped it! I felt so Gerry Butler in Phantom of The Opera...
There you go Jude!
Walking across where the soldiers shot their artillery from...
This is taken out of one of the little gun hole things in the walls...Even their Bows and arrows had views.
And from another one...
Coming back down now...more stairs.
Now we are in the old cellars...where they sell old wines and boutique Slovenian wines.
Then a nice Monk offered me a bottle of wine...
The Monk then grabbed a small bag and followed me outside and put some food on this stone for his little friend, the robin.
Then I found the little girls room. I know why they call it that now. Because all the doorways are only made for vertically impaired people like me!
Can you believe these pics are real? Amazing scenery.
So I decided to have lunch outside.
I had a hot spiced wine and a bowl of mushroom and potato soup. Yummo!
It was rather a large bowl!
Lovely...
These are the spices to use for hot spiced wine. Cinnamon sticks, cloves and orange slices...
An interesting old mural remaining intact...
Basically it means, no matter who you are...death comes to visit all!
Now I'm heading down and out of the wonderful day at the Castle. The hostel owner said the best time to photograph the church on the little island was around 3-4pm when the sun is right and from a certain spot, so I'll head off there now.
Down, down, down a zillion steps again...
Back on the edge of the lake again and off on the 6 klm walk around it. will continue this journey in the next blog...
Won't say much here as there are about 80 more beautiful pics of walking around the lake and of the Church on the island I came to see...So see you on part 2 of Lake Bled...
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