{"id":15919,"date":"2022-08-06T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15919"},"modified":"2022-08-20T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:46:07","slug":"daily_2740_-_slovenia_day_3_-_bled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/08\/06\/daily_2740_-_slovenia_day_3_-_bled\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2740 &#8211; Slovenia, day 3 &#8211; Bled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been staying in scenic Bled for several days and barely seen anything of the town, spending our days hiking instead. Just the closest streets, a supermarket, and a few restaurants. Bled castle has been beckoning to us from its seat on a cliff on the other side of the lake.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nToday we wanted to take in the sights of Bled. The weather forecast promised clear skies in the morning but rain and thunder for the afternoon, so we went for a walk along the lake shore towards viewing points on hills at its western edge. Lake Bled also has a little island which you can visit either with a kayak or a SUP board, or you can get someone to row you there in a gondola.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe were still on the shore of the lake, not even on our way up the hill, when the rain arrived, hours ahead of the forecast. Walking up to a viewpoint for photos in that weather was going to be unpleasantly muddy and mostly pointless, so we gave up and went back to the hotel.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe afternoon was going to bring more rain. New plan: skip the walking, say good-bye to the idea of stunning views of the lake and the city, and go visit Bled castle instead, where we could mostly be indoors.<\/p>\n<p>Actually the views from the castle turned out to be pretty impressive, too. And the weather forecast for the afternoon was as wrong as the one for the morning. We got the familiar broiling sun and not a single drop of rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The castle was very pretty. Irregular, like many old castles are, and subtly different enough from Northern European architecture to be quite interesting. The museum part was too impressive, though &#8211; it was a collection of interesting objects, presented with too little context and background information for us to learn anything. Apart from the fact that the oldest flute in the world (of which this museum had a copy), probably made by Neanderthals, was found in a cave in Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_7.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2740_Bled_8.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been staying in scenic Bled for several days and barely seen anything of the town, spending our days hiking instead. Just the closest streets, a supermarket, and a few restaurants. Bled castle has been beckoning to us from its seat on a cliff on the other side of the lake. Today we wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,775,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-eric","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15925,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions\/15925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}