East-Eurotrip

This is my third day in lake bled, and I'm leaving here this afernoon to Ptuj. This is a summary of my activities here so far. First a bit about Bled - it's one of the most popular resort areas in Slovenia. It has a small lake (6 km in circumference), with a small beautiful island in the middle and a church in the middle of it. It is said to bring good luck to ring the bell of the church, so all day long you here the bell ringing. Around Bled there are a lot of hills for hiking.




Day 1
Met a japanise guy named Jun on the bus from Ljubljana to here. We travelled together for around half a day, going next to the lake, visited Bled Castle (a castle of a tall cliff falling into the lake), and hired a row boat and rowed into the small island in the middle of the lake, visited the church, and rang the bell (you wouldn't expect otherwise, would you?). I even have a picture of me ringing the bell. amazing.
We split up in the afternoon, and I continued to the tallest hill around the lake (more than 700 meters tall). The walk up was real steep, but from the top you have a great view, and I also took the opportunity to catch a siesta on a bench at the top...
On the way down I tried to find a short-cut, but only found myself going down steeper and steeper slopes, until eventually I gave up, went all the way back to the top, and found the trail down... I also finished all my water somewhere in the middle of it, and there is no one there! I met only 2 other people on that hill in the 3-4 hours I was there. So luckily, I survived...

Oh, I went to lunch with the japanese guy, and we met there a couple with the guy being Israeli (21 years old, and acting like one). He was really fun, but kept talking on the differences of smoking marijuana in different countries, and where you have good parties, and such thing. Apparently, the japanese guy was also into such stuff when he was younger, and lived 4 years in amsterdam, so they had much to talk about... I didn't contribute too much to that conversion. This is what 9 years in the army does to you I guess...

In the evening just went around and drank beer at a local pub. Nothing intersting.

Day 2
Woke up at around 11 oclock (still a bumass!). Went for a walk to a gorje nearby, very beautiful, saw a group of old&boring Israeli going there also, but didn't reveal my secret Israeli identity. Then in the evening in went to the final of an international hockey tournament, the two teams competing were both slovenian, and the local team won. Much joy. At the evening went to play billiard for a little bit (alone)

Day 3 (i.e. today)
Went in the morning to do rock climbing, in natural rock. It's hard, but it's fun. Specially getting to the top, and knowing you didn't quit. It's much harder then the artificial ones, because you hardly have anywhere to grab with your hands when you're climbing in the nature.
In the afternoon I'm probably going to do a horse riding lesson, and then head to Ptuj.

When I'll get to a real internet cafe (now I'm just using one in the extreme sport's office), I'll upload some more photos.