Fairy tale

Before our jaunt around the gorge-ous hike (noted below), the tres Poli spent the morning walking around Lake Bled and visiting the Castle Bled.

I sent the below photo to my friend in the US. She immediately responded something along the lines of, "Holy crap, that looks like it walked out of a fairy tale.
Where are you?!?"

Truer words.

Not in a fairy tale, but Lake Bled is an old tourist area dating back hundreds of years and even more recently including a private mansion for the former Yugoslavian Tito. The area is also apparently home to extensive Slovenian rower training, which turns out famous and wildly successful rowers by the -pun intended- boatload. (Hee hee hee...)

If anyone ever finds themselves in this part of the world, I think we would all highly recommend a visit to the area. You just really can't beat castle on a rock, church on an island, crystal blue lake, ducklings, and row boats, all against the background of the Alps.

Well... You know. If you're into that kind of thing.