2018-12-24 Day 104 Mon


Spoke to the family for Christmas Eve. John Yeo joined in for a short time from Canada.
We moved on trying to get to Bled lake for the night. A beautiful drive in the mountains up near the Austrian border. Lots of tourist signs (in english) and viewing points, but no tourists.



Came across a friendly dragon so had to walk up the neat steps and say hello.

Stopped for lunch at this peaceful church.Just warm enough to sit out side and enjoy the wine given by the Webasto guys.
Arrived at Bled lake on dusk and got some photos of island and castle but was a very touristy place. Decided to head for the next lake, wrongly thinking it would be less inhabited.
No, all the car parks (paid) and signs of no motorhomes….as well as having security camera’s and lights. Surely in off-season it’d be OK? But we decided not to risk it, so drove around in the dark for a while. At least at Bled you could pay to stay in the car park over night.

In our confusion escaping the village in the dark, we took a wrong turn up a narrow street, and got a teeny bit stuck under someones wooden balcony for only an un-witnessed moment.

Finally scurried up out of the town and found a spot, wedged into a hairpin on a steep narrow little road. More traffic than expected went past in the night.

173km