Wandering Aidan: The Lake Bled Crew

Welcome back to the blog! We have moved on to stage two of our vacation, the Slovenia Stage. We are staying in a small town called "Bled", which is built around the perimeter of a beautiful lake, the creatively named Lake Bled. As is to be expected from us, we promptly started adventuring upon arrival in Slovenia- in fact, we made a stop before we even reached our hotel.

This stop was the Postojna Caves, which seem to have a weird name at first glance, but are actually far easier to say than most Slovenian words. They are known mainly for being home to the proteus, a subterranean creature similar in appearance to an albino axolotl. Most people don't know what that is either, though, so I suggest you look it up.

We didn't see many of those, but we did see some fantastic rock formations. Check them out below.

We took a high-speed, open-topped train down into the interesting parts of the caves.

Selfie with rock.

Named "The Brilliant", this pure white rock is one of the most prominent formations in the cave.

After a thorough tour of the caves, my mom let us drive the rest of the way to our hotel to eat dinner and get some sleep. However, come morning, we were no longer safe from her planned activities.

On the second day, we rented e-bikes (bikes with an electronic assist feature, to make the hilly terrain navigable) and biked our way to the Vintgar Gorge. This gorge has no interesting history or background to the extent of my knowledge, but it doesn't need any because it is so absurdly beautiful.

In places, the water was astoundingly clear and blue.

The water flow had a habit of changing from calm to rapid very suddenly.

I found a cave!

We even saw some wildlife in the area. Several fish could be seen using the running water like a treadmill, hovering motionless by swimming lazily against the current in slow portions. Also to be seen were... these.