Hey everybody! We took off this morning from Lake Bled and headed about 30 minutes away to Lake Bohinj. Lake Bohinj is the largest lake in Slovenia. While it is not nearly as famous as Lake Bled and it may lack some of the charm and tourist infrastructure of Lake Bled, the lesser number of tourists and rugged beauty give Bohinj an appeal all of it’s own. Our first stop upon arrival at the lake was another WW1 cemetery, where mostly Austro-Hungarian soldiers were laid to rest.

After visiting the cemetery, we went to an aerial tramway ride that was highly recommended by the guy who worked at our hostel in Bled. The cost (and ride) was pretty steep at 24 euros each and about 6,000 feet straight up the mountain, but the views were incredible and it was totally worth doing in my opinion.

After finishing up with the tram, we headed to the lake itself. Initially, we were going to hike the trail, but decided to forgo that in favor of a swim in the lake. We noticed a few fish swimming in the area where we wanted to swim, so we decided to feed them some of the bread Anna Maria had packed for lunch. Soon we were joined by even more fish and some ducks that wanted in on the action. Neither the fish or the ducks were at all scared of us, as the ducks ate out of my hand and the fish would swim right up to my feet to get the bread.

After we finished up at the lake, it was time to head back to Ljubliana. When we arrived, we had some food downtown and I showed Anna Maria some of the places I had checked out when I was there last weekend. She suggested I try busking for a couple hours, so we got the gear out and set up. The first spot I tried wasn’t getting much action, so we moved across the bridge and soon I had lots of people hanging out and listening, and even had some people dancing. I really am thrilled about the reception I’ve received the two times I’ve been able to busk. This time I made about 40 euros and two free drinks for playing approximately 90 minutes. Not too bad! I even had a random guest singer come up and do the Slovenian language version of “Country Roads” and that was a lot of fun!

After the busking, we made our way the hostel for the night, which is one of the nicest ones we have stayed in. It’s right in the Metalkova, where I visited the other night. And it’s actually in a renovated Yugoslavian prison, which is pretty cool! We took a stroll around the Metalkova before retiring for the night.

That’s it for today. Tomorrow we move to an Airbnb and my buddies Harry and Sam arrive in the evening from Germany. It may be a couple days before I check in since Harry and Sam like to party – I may be in no shape to write a blog after a night out with them. But we will see.. Take care for now!