Day 9 Lake Bohinj - Vogel - Bled - Kranjska Gora

Last night we walked along the lake and in the village until dark, partly in the rain. Then we sat on our balcony on the farm in Stara Fuzina, drank wine and watched the mountains. In the morning, Reni went to the village store and bought some fresh rolls and we asked our hostess to make some coffee and this was our breakfast. The coffee was awful, but the rest was good. We decided that if the weather was good, we would take a cable car (gondola) to the top of the Vogel mountain and hike there for a couple of hours. We did that. The views were spectacular. There are many hiking trails there, but we took a short one for about an hour. When we got down, we drove to Bled, another Alpine lake with a small island in the middle and a spectacular castle perched on a rock on one bank. Bled is a spa town, very different than villages near lake Bohinj. It has a charm and character of a relaxed old world spa rather than a mountain-climbing center. We walked along the lake and then went to a restaurant recommended by the tourist information person -- Murka. It was a Slovenian folk restaurant so we ordered a typical Slovenian dish -- civabcici (grilled rolls of ground pork/lamb) with onion and tomato/paprika sauce and mustard + bread and grilled vegetables, which included grilled carrots, celery, peppers, zucchini, onions, etc. It was delicious, but the problem was that each of us got at least eight of them and there was no way we could eat them all. (We did take a doggie bag). We decided not to cross to Austria yet and go to another mountain village called Kranjska Gora, about 30 km away. It is located in a triangle where 3 borders meet -- Italian, Austrian and Slovenian. When we got there, we drove through town towards a lake and found a lovely little hamlet right at the foot of a mountain with a beautiful view of a mountain range and a lake. The was a pension there so we had coffee on the terrace and asked about rooms, but they had none. Right next to it was a private house with a sign “Sobe” (Rooms for rent). This time we were lucky and rented two rooms with balconies, one with a fabulous view, but unfortunately without wifi. We took an evening walk around the lake and then sat on the balcony, drank nice Slovenian wine, nibbled on the rest of the civabcici, talked and admired the view until dark