Sunday 6th October 2024
Day 23.
I really enjoyed todays drive as we left Hotel Willy and drove up through a pass in the Julijske Alps, there were a few time today on our journey when we had to drop into second to negotiate hairpin bends but nothing too dramatic. Driving here in Italy and today in Slovenia is very slow going, not only because of the roads but because of restrictive speed limits, it took 2 hours to do 75 miles. We drove through some magnificent scenery with snow capped mountains, up to plateau areas with ski resorts, reaching I believe a height up to 1,400m before descending through the Spodrje Gorge into Bled.
We had decided to visit Bled Castle before driving to tonight’s Sosta where there was a large car park catering for coaches, motorhomes and cars, but not cheap at 3 euros per hour.
The walk up to the castle was steep and I found it hard going but we enjoyed ourselves once we had reached the top, Peter and I have suggested that castles ought to be in valleys as they would be much easier to visit😂😂😂
We walked back down from the castle via a long series of steps that enabled us to access the lake, it looked interesting and we will walk back there tomorrow.
Tonight’s Sosta is modern well kept and comes with EHU, you have to pay cash and use the QR code to activate the electricity and this comes at a cost of 20 euros.
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