Bled … closed today due to the weather …

It’s still drizzling with rain as we make our way to the lake for breakfast, we’re on our bikes and ride around the lake … we have beat the morning rush of the day trippers, not many people about. Already a few early birds have made it to the island on the little boats … they are probably on a tour and have a strict schedule.

The rain hasn’t deterred us as we cycle and try to get the best vantage points for pics, passing the Olympic Rowing Centre.

A short 6km ride to the entrance of Vintgar Gorge, we hear it before we see it, as the river twists and turns over the rocks.

The gorge walk 1.6km of boardwalks and bridges criss crossing the gorge with the Radovna River raging below. It was really an amazing gorge and I think how much work was put in to make all the paths the boardwalks. Meanwhile the rain kept up. The return òf 2.7km with through forest and the little village of Blejska Dobrava. The most we’ve used our rain coats all tour.

Back in the land on the Lake, things are looking very quiet, the ‘shopping centre’ seems to be full of empty shops apart from souvenir shops, an ice cream shop with untouched buckets of ice cream looking lovely with the topping all fresh, on a hot day the bucket would be coming closest empty. The zip line tour office is closed along with a bike hire shop all with notes referring to closures due to weather conditions. Up on the hill the chairlift is stationary where the summer tobogganing takes place. Has Bled given up on summer with a bit of rain?

The most activity in the town seems to be in the Bled Ice Hall, kids have ice hockey training. We were able to enter, I remember that ice cold feeling when I used to go ice skating, as a teenager in Brisbane, how much I’d like to put on some skates and glide on the ice right now.