Saturday August 22.2015

We woke up to a blue sky and sunshine today, so decided to spent another day here in Kranjska.

Olympic training center at  Planice,Slovenia

After breakfast we got on our bikes and wanted to ride to Tamar valley but stopped at Planice when we saw the big Ski jumps. It so happened that kids of all ages had a training day, the youngest about 6 or 7 years barreling down and jumping off and having perfect landings on the grass. It was really amazing to watch. So we never made it to Tamar Valley.After watching for a while we rode back down to the bike trail. It was really busy on a beautiful Saturday.Families with little kids,young people on road bikes, older ones like us on trekking bikes,  everyone looking fit.The little kids and I mean 3 and 4 year olds riding up pretty hilly terrain.We decided to ride up to some beautiful Alpine Lakes that were actually over the border in Italy called lago Fusine. There were lots of  folks up there also, since you could get there by car, but lots of families on bikes rode up with us also. little kids riding up pretty steep pitches. Amazing.
In the evening we ate dinner at Pensione Lipa Mac had calamari and I had a wonderful Salad, Mac had red wine I had an Aperol Spritz and we had creme brulee for desert, all very good. There was another concert at the square with women and men dressed in traditional out fits and a band playing old traditional instruments, A big crowd had gathered, mostly locals, it was too bad we could not understand the songs. Mac asked several people but no one spoke English We enjoyed it any way.

The jumps

om the way to Tamar

Inn in Podkoren

men's world cup course in Kranjska

my Salad

Mac's Calamari

View from the lakes

at the lakes

Lago Fusine

Lago Fusine

 Slovenien men's Choir

The Ensemble waiting to get on

The women and band