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<\/a><\/div>\nSo I did as I normally do, and asked in the tourist info what there is to see there – on finding out there was a bee museum, our plans were made. We headed in. There were some cool features the kids enjoyed, like trying on a beekeepers hat:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nAnd climbing stairs in the viewing area set up to watch the documentary on bees:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nAnd Kaya really liked playing with this smoker, and kept trying to take it with her:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nShe loved pushing on it:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there was a demonstration beehive and the kids liked watching the bees at their work:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd they had these cool old wooden beehives:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThey amazed Kaya:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nBut she was cool about it:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThen we ate a really nice late lunch at this restaurant, one of the two in the tourist area. I should have taken a picture of the food, but the kids, and hunger, distracted me. We had mushroom soup in a bread bowl, some kind of buckwheat blini\/ravioli filled with sweet cheese with a mushroom sauce, grilled vegetables and a local sauce\/tapanade thing and cheese filled dumplings, all accompanied by really nice bread. Most of the other patrons were Slovenian from what we could tell, though the woman I talked to (who also had a kid who wouldn’t stay seated), was visiting from the coast. And there were stairs for Kaya to climb on:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nAnd this view to look at:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nIt was a truly satisfying afternoon, and we headed into Ljubljana later than we’d thought, but fully sated. The kids fell asleep on the way, and then we had a nice time playing with them in the van as a thunderstorm rolled by. And I didn’t even need dinner, though we did have the vanilla\/cream pastry thing Bled is known for (and that we’d picked up at the gas station on the way out of town), for dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In one of the many tourist brochures we got in Bled, we saw a description of a nearby town that had a cool medieval centre. Suckers for such things, we thought we’d make a quick stop there on our way … Continue reading