Lake Bled to Ljubljana

Going to Jail!

17.09.2008 50 °F

Ah, A Sunny Day!!! Finally – so we wake up at our hotel and have the breakfast downstairs. So the mission for today is to catch the bus and then hike to Vintgers Gorge. It is supposed to be a mile long walk along a gorge a short way from lake bled. But first of course I must take all new pictures of the lake, castle and swans now that the sun is shining.
We catch the bus for the 30 min ride to the gorge at 1000 and arrive by 1030. Along the way we saw some of the hayracks that everybody is always talking about.

The gorge was pretty but chilly because barely any light is let in. The pathway is not very wide so a lot of times you are waiting on people to be able to pass. But the water is crystal clear and you can see the fish fighting to swim up stream. At the end of the hike there is a waterfall but you can’t see it very well because the bridge from the gorge is covering it. But we only had an hour and a half at the gorge before catching the bus back. This may sound like a lot of time to make it 1 mile out and back but remember I take pictures of everything these days. So at the end we had to speed walk a little to get back by 1200 and catch the bus. But we did and we made it back to town by 1230 with an appetite.
We found another pizzeria called Pizzeria Rustica. It took a little longer for the pizza today but it was slightly better. So now we are rushing again because we want to catch the 1405 bus to Ljubljana. So we get half our pizza to go and once again race back to our hotel where they are storing our bags then back to the bus station.
We end up there with 15 minutes to spare. As we get on the bus we are told we can’t take our pizza so that is a bit frustrating. But at any rate it is an easy 1.5 hour ride to Ljubljana. We found our hostel Celica, the hostel that is designed like a prison and used to be a military prison. We check in, find our cell which has a small table and cabinet downstairs and a “double bed” upstairs. It has a regular door but then a door with bars also.

We head towards the downtown and find the Cajna Hisa which is a tea shop. IT is my favorite place here so far. I get cinnamon tea and curt got a combo of blackberry and strawberry.
So dinner is a search for a place called Sokol which is supposed to have soup in a bread bowl. We are stuck on that after San Francisco. It is decorated like a Slovenian pub I guess and turns out to be a fun place to eat. I got a Radler that came in a bottle for the first time. Curt got his onion soup in a breadbowl ad gnocci and I got carbonara with noodles.
After dinner we window shopped on the way to our hostel to settle in for the evening. I traded a book and we tried to use the internet but it didn’t seem to be worth it. Goodnight from Jail!