http://www.sloveniawelcomes.com/travelstories/selectedstories/rss/Lake_Bled.xml Selected Travel Blogs writing about Lake Bled en-gb Slovenia Welcomes 2006 Mon, 29 May 2006 10:04:35 GMT http://leannes-slovenia.blogspot.com/2006/04/original-itinerary.html o Drive down to Postojna Caves (33km northeast of Skocjan) to catch the 2pm tour. Tour duration is about 1.5 hours. Explore 5.7km of the cave (4km by electric train and 1.7km on foot). Tour ends with a viewing of a tank full of Proteus ... Travel Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.carniola.org/theglory/2006/03/getting_married.htm Lake Bled: Don't leave this Earth until you've seen it. (source). The British newspaper The Independent recently ran a story about foreigners coming to Slovenia to get married, entitled "Slovenia: A Land for Love. ... Travel Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://triathlonforisrael.blogspot.com/2006/02/lake-bled_18.html this is lake bled ... that's the island I thought it would be a good idea to swim to... yep, looks hard, but this triathlon business is significantly more difficult... about 1500 meters in the hudson river... I think the water there was ... Travel Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://events.gadling.com/2006/02/14/red-square-hitched-in-slovenia/ The particular wedding he happens to attend takes place on picturesque Lake Bled, at the foot of the Slovenian Alps?a place where Yugoslavian president Tito used to vacation regularly. Although the whole area sounds amazing, ... Travel Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-E55I7egybrR6Ok.dj7srJw--?p=208 Lake Bled is to the North of Slovenia, and boasts a picturesque lake with a small island in the middle which houses a church, and a castle over-looking the village from a high mountain crag above. Tourists can get ferried to and from ... Travel Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.gonomad.com/travelreader/2006/02/switzerlands-little-sister.html ... by a looming mountain with the inscription ?NAS TITO? (Our Tito). That homage to Yugoslavia?s larger-than-life leader, who died in 1980, pointed us along a stunning valley railway to our destination: his former summer home, Lake Bled.? Travel Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://humdansoundart.blogspot.com/2006/01/finally.html Will definitely be hitting the mountains on our day off... going up to Lake Bled... how can you not love it? It is also very cold here.... as in Berlin... arctic weather off the Russian Steppes is pursuing us on our journey, ... Travel Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-E55I7egybrR6Ok.dj7srJw--?p=207 On the way to Lake Bled you pass an aerodrome, and as we turned a corner a slew of parachutes appeared descending from the blue sky into snowy fields below. "How did they know we'd arrived?" asked Claire ;-) ... Travel Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.marjoriecarrington.co.uk/blog/index.php?entry=entry060107-192440 Of course, one was Lake Bled and it turned out we chose the perfect day for it (see photos ). I wonder how many times I'll walk round that lake whilst I'm living in Slovenia. It's certainly the most popular destination for all my ... Travel Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.carniola.org/theglory/2005/12/slovenia_is_a_t.htm Although Slovenia is great because it's off-the-beaten-path and not touristy, the writer only visits the main tourist sites of the country: Bled, Postojna, Ljubljana. At no point does he/she leave the beaten path. ... Travel Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/?p=52 Lake Bled. Being put to work rowing out to the island on Lake Bled. Man, that year of rowing in 1996 sure ... Bec, having a whale of a time ringing the bell in the cathedral on the island on Lake Bled. It is said your wish when ringing ... Travel Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://blogs.bootsnall.com/beaker/?p=46 We hadn?t even been to the famous lake yet, and Bled had won us over. That afternoon we took a leisurely stroll around the lake, snapping away with our camera. The lake is surrounded on all sides by tree covered hills. ... Travel Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://www.marjoriecarrington.co.uk/blog/index.php?entry=entry051007-091724 Last weekend Stefan came over to celebrate his 30th birthday and we took a hire car to Lake Bled. Now this place is definitely worth a visit. Its such a fairytale setting with the church on an island in the middle of the lake and a ... Travel Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://zbarnes.blogspot.com/2005/10/beautiful-bled-in-slovenia.html So, another place that we visited was a small city in Slovenia called Bled. It is perhaps the most touristy place in all of Slovenia. Why you ask? Well, Bled is situated in the Julian Alps and has a wonderfully beautiful lake situated ... Travel Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://robertam.blogspot.com/2005/09/trip-to-lake-bled.html In Saturday we went to lake Bled, which is very nice place (on the left side of the picture is a castle on the rocks and the lake has a small island in the middle with the church on it - you can go there with the boat or even swim in ... Travel Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JenandFab/?p=19 Now we are writing from Postojna a small town (famous for having the largest caves in Europe.) It is pouring rain, and we are using the time to catch up. Kristin and Joseph left us yesterday in Ljubljana to go to Venice to see the ... Travel Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://spaces.msn.com/chinesenewfmsn/Blog/cns!1pIT7OAKlzhLaxLbmFK6ta3A!739.entry Just got back from aa day trip to Lake Bled, a place that I had never heard of before last year (thanks, Ryan), but I'm wicked glad that I ended up going. Real fairy-tale like stuff. Tomorrow, another day trip, this time to the ... Travel Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://kaorudesigns.com/weblog/index.php?p=33 We went to the Postojna Cave, which is the 20th largest cave in the world. It?s 150m deep. The temperature always stays at 8 degree celsius.We also went to Cerknica Lake, whose size changes depending on the amount of water in the basin ... Travel Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://clarisinda.livejournal.com/179251.html Then we went and picked up the other car and drove in convoy northwards towards Lake Bled. We'd taken the walkie talkies so there was much silliness over them between cars :-) By about this point I'd started to feel a whole lot more ... Travel Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://bapgirl.livejournal.com/59353.html From Skofja Loka, we spent a few hours at Lake Bled, a fairytale lake complete with an island in the middle with a church on it. There were churches everywhere in Slovenia - islands, on top of mountains, in the middle of fields full of ... Travel Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://martincallum.blogspot.com/2005/08/lake-bled-slovenia.html As a result of late planning, we were unable to find accomodation in Bled and ended up just taking a day trip to the mountains and the lake. As you can see, we were disappointed that we couldn't spend more time there. ... Travel Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://mordechai7215.blogspot.com/2005/08/day-one-we-left-from-s.html We then took a second train to our second destination in Bled. The station was on a hill overlooking the lake of Bled, offering a very nice view of the town. Since, however, our apartment was in a small town next to Bled we began to ... Travel Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://www.crypticscriber.com/?p=282 On the second day we went to Lake Bled. This is a truly amazing place, with mountains all around, a castle towering over the lake on one side and an island in the middle with a church. The day we went there were rowing races taking ... Travel Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://mattofdoom.livejournal.com/31824.html I decided to ride on up north to Lake Bled, the other of Slovenia's famous lakes (I visited the other on the way down). I got there just in time for a gentle sunset, and was utterly gob smacked at the shear, unadulterated beauty of the ... Travel Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://threeiscompany.blogspot.com/2005/06/slovenia-soujourn.html On Sunday we took a tour out to Lake Bled to see Slovenia's oldest castle (dedicated in 1004!) and the lake there. In the middle of the lake is Slovenia's only island, complete with an ancient church and the "wishing bell" - legend has ... Travel Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://karola.nomadlife.org/2005/06/stop-3-bled.aspx We're in Bled now, about an hour from Ljubljana in the Julian Alps. The whole area is really picturesque and Lake Bled is beautiful, its the most amazing shade of aquamarine blue, crystal clear and cool. It poured rain on our picnic ... Travel Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://rorye.livejournal.com/26252.html Dad and I went back to the hotel for breakfast, then drove up to Lake Bled, which is the big tourist attraction of Slovenia. It was amazing. It was so quiet and peaceful, and the water looked like soft, shiny fabric. ... Travel Thu, 05 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hartleyhare.livejournal.com/20284.html The most famous lake in Slovenia is Lake Bled, but Bled is much more touristy, and tends to be full of genteel elderlies taking the waters, like an Anita Brookner novel. Bohinj is pretty isolated, and mountainous. ... Travel Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://www.michaeltyler.co.uk/2004/05/lake-bled-and-postojna-caves.php Have found my way down to the lake Bled and managed to pick up a rowing boat. The weather is hot and sunny. I am going to find this easy. Bled is surrounded with mountains some of which are the alps. In the middle of the lake stands a ... Travel Tue, 25 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://www.michaeltyler.co.uk/2004/05/lake-bled-and-postojna-caves.php Must investigate caves of Postojna. Here we will find the human fish. Deep within the caves of Postojna lives the human fish feeding on prawns, snails and what remains it can find. As well as that, the caves are the second deepest in ... Travel Tue, 25 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT