Monday, April 22, 2013

Around Bled

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The Austrian and Slovenian Alps made the drive pretty spectacular.  Three tunnels over 5 miles long on the way took us under the mountains and directly to Bled.

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Bled itself is a pretty lake resort community.  This is the castle above the lake - it's 223 steps p to the castle (as we would find out - and boy do my calves hurt).

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Ad they just went on and on and on and on.

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The view of Bled rom the top was pretty spectacular though.  In the background are the other side of the alps shown above.

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Kind of self explanatory

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In the middle of Lake Bled is a small island with a church on it.  It has a wishing well with a bell.  It's said if you ring the bell your wish will come true.

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Swan boats at the far end of the lake.

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The little church from the other side.  It's about 1:30 in the afternoon and we're off to find lunch.  More tonight.

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