mac and johanna's bike tripjoh

Kranjska Gora, August 21 2015

Yesterday morning we left Bled and all the tourist and traffic behind. The sky was clear after the night's before downpour. The sun was shining and lightening up the little church on the Island and the lake was calm and beautiful and the tourist buses had not arrived yet.
To get to Bled was quite a steep ride and even it would have been beautiful riding back through the Radovne valley and having the Triglav mountain in view we decided to get back to Mojstrana by taxi. The driver took us to the tourist info were we visited with the nice girl there and had a cremschnitte each for a farewell. Here is were the bike trail started and we were on our way to Kranjsk. It was nice to see the mountains from the opposite direction.
We arrived at our B+B early and the nice owner, who speaks German showed us to our very small room, but the price is right.
After we took a ride into town had some tea at the square and saw the German couple we met the night before at Dinner They had ridden all the way from Bled .It took them three hours, but they are a lot younger than we. They were surprised that we made it up the steep 3 km hill and thought we had e-bikes.

They soon left for Tarvisio and we biked to Podkoren, just a little way down the trail and I hiked through a beautiful nature reserve, actually the start of the Sava Dolinka .River, a tributary of the Danube. We also visited the Liznjek Farmhouse,were you could get a feeling of how a wealthy Farmfamily lived. The rooms were decorated with beautiful painted chests,beds and a cradle. The black kitchen was still intact. Black from the smoke of king fires .The outside of the house had a hand carved wooden balcony and the house was decorated with frescos. An example of a slovenien Alpine house from the past.
Went for dinner looking for Pizza, but got into the part of the restaurant where it was not served, so ordered a grillplatte for two. It started raining again when we left the restaurant but even so there were lots of people about. The tour Buses stop in places and let all the people out to spend the night, next morning they are all gone.
Had a great breakfast this morning served by our nice hostess Carolina. It is gloomy and overcast this morning, but we will go out and explore.