We were away from Ljubljana a bit before 7am and got a train to Lesce Bled where we had a great breakfast and then hopped on a bus for the remaining 4km to Bled itself. Mountains all around a lake overlooked by a Medieval castle, a later church (St Martin) and in the middle a small island with another church on it. The lake is a glacial feature, and the island described as the only island in Slovenia. Back in June the World Rowing Cup was held on the lake. There are heaps of tourist boats being rowed about, of a unique style as they are rowed by one man standing at the stern. These are called pletna, and look quite nice but we thought it would be more fun to row ourselves as there were plenty of very nice wooden rowing boats for hire too. A very good thing is there are NO power boats on the lake.
So we rowed off (actually this one is a bigger boat, we had a shorter boat with one thwart as only the two of us, one to row...
And one to look decorative in the stern!
Here is a pletna setting off for the island
And one of many photos of the island taken from our 10km walk around the shores of the lake...
and a difficult shot from a crag near the castle high above the lake. We left about 3.15 as the afternoon thundery rain was starting after a hot clear perfect day.
Nice to see you are getting some exercise. Where is the photo of Robbie rowing home!! Snow around Christchurch!!!
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