August 21st, 2915 Kranjska Gora.  After breakfast this morning we hang around in our tiny room and blogged and read.. It looked sort of cold and overcast out  there.
Finally we had enough and got on the bikes to ride to a Russian church only 7 km from town.
We followed our map and soon came to beautiful little Alpine Lake There was a sculpture of a mountain Goat with Golden Horns right there by the lake. The story goes that high in the Julien Alps once lived the white fairies , who sometimes came down to the Valley to help the poor.  On the rocky slopes grazed the goats of the fairies.These goats were led by Golden Horn and the fairies made him invulnerable. When a Hunter were to wound him a magical flower called Triglav would rise from his blood and only consuming one leaf  of this flower Golden Horn would be healed.
There are other versions of this story too many to write about here.
After visiting Golden Horn we started up the hill to find the Russian Chapel.  Little did we know we were going to climb a steep road with grades up to 14%.   After 5k we came to the Russian Chapel. Austro-Hungarian authorities used 10,000 Russian prisoners as slave labor to build a road over 1600 meter Vrsic Pass.  The chapel was built to the memory of  110 Russian prisoners that were killed in an avalanche in 1917.
After looking st the Chapel we rode back down the road a short distance to a hut that, oddly enough, had beer.  We sat at a table a with nice couple, the man was American and his wife was Hungarian. They both worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia.  We had a hearty minestrone soup with some sort of wienies in it and we each had a beer.  The couple would take their vacation every few months and travel in Europe.   We rode carefully back down the hill and back to our Hotel for a shower.
                                                                                                                                                                After dinner we went to a local concert of traditional slovenian music.  The singers were dressed in their traditional dress.  It was a nice show but we never did understand any ofthe stories.

Gold Horn at the lake

Russian Chapel

Chapel

memorial for Russian prisoners

view of the mountains from the chapel

view of the Julien Alps

Lake

a Ford commercial was being filmed at the lake

part of the commercial

Kranjska

the little Alpine Lake at the start of the ride

along the trail

Add inside Church at Kranjska