Today was a seriously lazy day. You know the sort of weekends where you basically don’t leave the house? That was today, and it was SO necessary.
The weather today was meant to be gross, and gross it was. We had such a good time around the lake yesterday that there wasn’t any need to try to replicate it. We had gotten so lucky with the window of great weather in the early morning, got our amazing photos and had a lovely time - why do it again in the rain?
We slept in as late as possible, breakfasted and showered. We had been looking at doing a wine tasting evening but it came in at €35 per person. I contacted them to see if they had the "orange" wine which Slovenia is known for, which is a strange white and red wine mix. The tasting did include it, but in the end I couldn't justify €70 for the sake of trying one wine. We decided we'd try the place for lunch instead and maybe try to get a glass then.
Meanwhile, Dan spent the morning working on fixing his laptop, commandeering my laptop for a while too.
Eventually I got hungry and wanted lunch. We went to the wine tasting place - I had read online they had lunch deals but couldn't see anything like that on the menu. In the end, we just decided to go to the pizza place from yesterday.
Today I found an odd looking wine on there - I don't know if it's specifically orange wine but it's certainly regional! It’s called Cviček. I quickly looked it up and it's a weird blend of white and red wine - sounds pretty much like this orange wine, and if it's not, it's still going to be different! And different it was. Sour, salty - left me feeling thirsty, but still a bit tangy. I liked it. It was weird, so I ordered another of the bright pink wine.
After this, we wanted to try the famous Bled cream cake. I say we, I should say I. I found a place that's supposed to do the best in Bled and it was only around the corner from the pizza place, and it was self service. It seems self service in this country is simply pay and take from the counter, not actually serving yourself!
We walk in, and I forget instantly what the cake is called in English or in Slovenian. Of course my phone stops working too, so we take a seat while I figure this out. It came back to life, and what I had assumed was the cream cake was, and so we settled on the cream cake and another regional cake, just for a bit of variety of flavour.
I ordered one cream cake and one other cake off the menu, which they didn’t have any of. I pointed to something else on the menu, and when she gestured towards the cake in the display, I misunderstood what it was. She piled the Bled cream cake, and custardy and wobbly onto a plate, and then collected a scoop and scooped out something from a container and plonked it unceremoniously onto another plate, before covering it in cream and chocolate sauce. It was enormous. It was also a mess, a chocolatey, creamy, saucy mess. Both cakes were enormous. I also got two of the crazy wines from here again too.
All of this was quite a mistake. Not because it wasn't tasty but it was enormous. Did I mention already it was enormous? We struggled through, although Dan’s resolve was much better than mine. I went to the toilet at one stage just so I could drink some water out of the tap! We started with the delicious cream cake - I don’t normally like custard but this was really, really tasty, before tackling the chocolate mess. Somehow we got through it all.
When we got back to the hostel, I couldn’t cope with life, and had to have a nap. That’s the second time so far on this journey that I’ve eaten myself into a food coma! I lay down and groaned for about 2 hours while Dan continued using my laptop to fix his laptop. Which he managed! I don’t think it’s working 100% but it’s definitely usable, and he can do blogging and photo editing, which is great. Eventually I was able to sit up and started blogging!
We went to the store a bit before it shut to get some more of that crazy salty wine and some chips - there was simply no room for dinner tonight, but a little bit of wine to go with writing is nice! And that’s the end of this day.
Til next time,
xx
The weather today was meant to be gross, and gross it was. We had such a good time around the lake yesterday that there wasn’t any need to try to replicate it. We had gotten so lucky with the window of great weather in the early morning, got our amazing photos and had a lovely time - why do it again in the rain?
We slept in as late as possible, breakfasted and showered. We had been looking at doing a wine tasting evening but it came in at €35 per person. I contacted them to see if they had the "orange" wine which Slovenia is known for, which is a strange white and red wine mix. The tasting did include it, but in the end I couldn't justify €70 for the sake of trying one wine. We decided we'd try the place for lunch instead and maybe try to get a glass then.
Meanwhile, Dan spent the morning working on fixing his laptop, commandeering my laptop for a while too.
Eventually I got hungry and wanted lunch. We went to the wine tasting place - I had read online they had lunch deals but couldn't see anything like that on the menu. In the end, we just decided to go to the pizza place from yesterday.
Today I found an odd looking wine on there - I don't know if it's specifically orange wine but it's certainly regional! It’s called Cviček. I quickly looked it up and it's a weird blend of white and red wine - sounds pretty much like this orange wine, and if it's not, it's still going to be different! And different it was. Sour, salty - left me feeling thirsty, but still a bit tangy. I liked it. It was weird, so I ordered another of the bright pink wine.
After this, we wanted to try the famous Bled cream cake. I say we, I should say I. I found a place that's supposed to do the best in Bled and it was only around the corner from the pizza place, and it was self service. It seems self service in this country is simply pay and take from the counter, not actually serving yourself!
We walk in, and I forget instantly what the cake is called in English or in Slovenian. Of course my phone stops working too, so we take a seat while I figure this out. It came back to life, and what I had assumed was the cream cake was, and so we settled on the cream cake and another regional cake, just for a bit of variety of flavour.
I ordered one cream cake and one other cake off the menu, which they didn’t have any of. I pointed to something else on the menu, and when she gestured towards the cake in the display, I misunderstood what it was. She piled the Bled cream cake, and custardy and wobbly onto a plate, and then collected a scoop and scooped out something from a container and plonked it unceremoniously onto another plate, before covering it in cream and chocolate sauce. It was enormous. It was also a mess, a chocolatey, creamy, saucy mess. Both cakes were enormous. I also got two of the crazy wines from here again too.
All of this was quite a mistake. Not because it wasn't tasty but it was enormous. Did I mention already it was enormous? We struggled through, although Dan’s resolve was much better than mine. I went to the toilet at one stage just so I could drink some water out of the tap! We started with the delicious cream cake - I don’t normally like custard but this was really, really tasty, before tackling the chocolate mess. Somehow we got through it all.
When we got back to the hostel, I couldn’t cope with life, and had to have a nap. That’s the second time so far on this journey that I’ve eaten myself into a food coma! I lay down and groaned for about 2 hours while Dan continued using my laptop to fix his laptop. Which he managed! I don’t think it’s working 100% but it’s definitely usable, and he can do blogging and photo editing, which is great. Eventually I was able to sit up and started blogging!
We went to the store a bit before it shut to get some more of that crazy salty wine and some chips - there was simply no room for dinner tonight, but a little bit of wine to go with writing is nice! And that’s the end of this day.
Til next time,
xx
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