Glamping in Slovenia: Part II

8/29/14
Day 1:
Jack couldn't go with me on this trip.  He ended up being in Poland during the days leading up to this vacation and would not have been home soon enough to make the 7.5 hour drive worth it so I asked my good friend, Sabrina, to go with me.  Luckily she said yes so I didn't have to drive and sleep all by my lonesome!  I went to Spain with her a couple months ago so I knew we were going to have a GREAT time!

Map of Slovenia

We packed up a bunch of delicious food and lot's of wine and headed out to Slovenia!  We were meeting up with our friends Cary & Orienna, Nick & Jayde, Pete & Marta.  The drive up was really fun actually.  Driving through Austria and seeing the beautiful country side and Alps while listening to James Patterson's Invisible, just can't beat a good novel and super funny company!  We actually high fived a couple times at crucial parts of the book!  ;)

We got to Lake Bled and checked in.  The "tents" were even more impressive than I was expecting and I have determined that I will go back at least one more time!  We even opted for the private bathroom, which was WAY better than an outhouse, or even the bathrooms in our own homes!

Our camp getting settled

Relaxing at camp

Marta, Pete, & Cary

Marta, Nick, & Pete

After getting settled we enjoyed a super delicious meal of home made chili with love by Marta and cornbread by me.  After drinking a lot of wine, hot tubing, and eating some yummy and powerful rum balls from the lovely Jayde, we turned in and got some sleep.

8/30/14
Day 2:
After we got up, we took all the dogs for a walk around the lake and met up with the guys to have cups of coffee, hot chocolate, and eventually beer!

The little cafe by the beach

Hot chocolate "European" style

After our lovely and slow morning, we went back to the camp and made breakfast.  When we were done with breakfast, we got ready for our hike through Vintgar Gorge.  The Gorge was pretty beautiful.  I believe it was almost 2 miles of the Radovna river, flowing over cascades and rapids, sometimes ending in clear pools.  The Vintgar gorge ends at Šum waterfall.  There is a cool little cafe at the top of the waterfall so people can take a break and have a snack or a drink.  

Me & Sabrina

The super cute cafe at the top of the falls

Our group taking a break

Our crazy and wonderful Jayde and Nick!

The falls

Jayde & Nick

The lovely Sabrina

Our group at the bottom of the falls

Pete & Nick striking a pose

We all went back to camp so we could take a trip around the lake in row boats.  One of my most important things that I wanted to do while we were there was to take a boat out to the island in the middle of Lake Bled to see the church.  Our guys swam out to the island and Marta and Jayde rowed out to pick up the guys.  They rowed back to us and Orienna, Sabrina, Marta, and I rowed out to the island.

Heading towards the island

Killian's first boat ride

A cool boat pic at the island dock

The stairs leading up to the church

Boats docked at the island

Marta, me, Sabrina, and Orienna at the island

Rowing back

When we were done with the island, we all went back and got ready for dinner.  We went out to a really neat restaurant that Orienna had been told was a great place to go for a nice dinner out.

Our view of Bled Castle from the restaurant

Pete and Cary showing us Castle Bled

I love that Pete isn't actually looking at the Castle!

Our group at dinner

Castle Bled

The Castle lighting up as it grew dark

Jayde's fresh trout

The shared meal between Pete, Marta, Cary, and O

Vila Anja

8/31/14
Day 3:
After we woke up and had a nice breakfast, we checked out and started towards Bled.  We were going to go and check out the town and possibly go up to the castle.  Unfortunately it was incredibly busy and there were no places to park so Sabrina and I headed home.  The traffic was really terrible and it was raining quite a bit so it took us a long time to get home but we had our book so it was still a good ride home.  I really loved this vacation and we are already planning a Glamping trip to Sardinia for next June!