“The Euro Zone Crisis are for real. Greece was being talked
about, now it’s the turn of Spain and soon it will be Italy, Slovenia and so
on. The Capitalists are taking on
and till they completely turn Europe into Argentina of the 80’s .. enjoy a
piece of it”. My Slovenian friend
told me this.
I don’t know what the future holds and I am a little worried
but right now when I am at the most beautiful lake I’ve ever been to in Europe,
the sound of the river coming out of it in the distance makes the ‘sound of the crisis’ go away.
Slovenia, and I have written about it before so I will be
stuck for words, especially after deleting an entire page written on
Krakow. But its true that Prague,
Krakow and Budapest fall in one league of East European nations. Slovenia,
Croatia are republics of Ex Yugoslavia
and feel different in everyway. The more I travel to Slovenia the more I want to travel to
its Interiors and I love that feeling. Turkey first gave me that feeling
followed by Argentina and now its Slovenia. The reason, I don’t know. It just
feels very personal. Like wanting to know a person more after you’ve meet him..
I am not saying Poland, Norway etc don’t give me the same. But there I don’t
feel the hurry to know, here I feel it !
Usually I stay with my groups in the Lake Bled area. The high
season and the tourists coaches flood the lunch hours and it feels a little
lost, even the sheer beauty of the lake doesn’t sometime save the day. 18 kms
inward and some beautiful Slovenian countryside scenery later is the lake of
Bohinj. What can I say about it !! It takes a cable car to take you 1600 mtrs
above to actually catch a complete glimpse of this beautiful stretch of
water. Its vast expanse is not
merely in its length but the Triglav mountain range of the Julian Alps cast a
spell on the blue waters and in its background lies the real glory of the lake.
They say the people in the town are rude. They don’t let any
new hotels or restaurants come up and are anti tourists in their policy. I
smile at them and ask them what could be more pro tourist than to not allow
more resorts and plastic hotels spoil the place. I stuck onto just Bled for 18
months. I still love to sit at a traditional open air bar and have my beer in
Bled. Eat good trout and a piece of the Bled cake. However when time is right
to leave.. I would rather go home to Bohinj.
Beauty in its appearance is just for the initial pull .. the
soul appeals to different people in different ways. I find the beauty of
Slovenia in places like Bled, its soul I find in Bohinj.
This is a tour, and that means just 3 days is what I get to
stay here for. Someday I will come here and stay longer and even then, I am sure
it would still feel like just 3 days.
Slovenia !
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