A Walk in the Forest

Whatddya say? Summer is in full blast, roasting everything in sight outside… Where can we escape to??? No, we have no grand summer holiday plans this year. Just a trip home later this month, to see the family and take care of some stuff!

Meanwhile, I guess I’ll finish my long overdue posts on our summer Europe trip of 2015! (Umm, it’s only 4 years late, not yet the record, hehe).

Going back to where I left off last year, Lake Bled, Slovenia, as I was saying, our one day in Slovenia, and it had to be a gloomily cloudy day. So, we decided to take it easy and skip the grand vista views of the mountains (Triglav National Park) and the lakes (Lake Bohinj), and decided to just hang out and chill in the little town of Bled. We also visited a nearby river gorge. (It’s a gorge, you don’t need blue skies and dazzling sunshine to friggin see a gorge!) Here’s our trip to the Vintgar Gorge.


Vintgar Gorge, Slovenia


Tiny 10-month-old Jayden, with Papa, at Vintgar Gorge. I bet you, Jayden doesn’t remember a thing about this…


I bet 6-year-old Justin doesn’t remember either…




Honey, wait up…






Into the gorge…


What are these stacks of stones for??? Borrowing from Tibetan culture?? (I saw lots of these in Ladakh, India and Nepal. Have never been to Tibet. Just wait, hehehe)


Rock a bye baby, on papa’s chest, Jayden’s fallen asleep


The end of the road


A view from the top

Going back to the car, see ya Slovenia! We’re off to Austria, for the last leg of our 2015 trip!

Lake Bled

Lake Bled, Slovenia

Bled. What a name! From Hallstatt we went south across the border into Slovenia. (I had to visit a new country, from the list of countries I visited in 1994! And what better place than Slovenia!)

Yes, here’s another picture post, from our Euro Trip 2015. (Picture posts will have to do till this bloody mess of a work arrangement ends. I am now friggin in charge of 2 Projects, one formally and one informally, and it’s bloody hell to cope. Wish me luck. Or better still, PRAY FOR ME).

Our one day in Slovenia, and the weather had to suck. Our apartment manager told us that Bled is usually nice and sunny in summer, heck, it was actually good on the morning of the day we arrived (we arrived at night). But as luck had it, we had to put up with grey overcast skies the next day. And so, we decided to skip our (my) ever-ambitious plan and just have a relaxing day, whiling the time away in the little town of Bled. We did things which we’d never considered doing, like sitting down and ordering a Slovenian lunch (meals were never scheduled on our trips, we considered them a waste of time, we eat on the go man). We went into the shops looking for a phone memory card (Anu’s phone ran out of memory when we were in Neuschwanstein, Germany, which was about umm… 4 days back!)

Wanna know what my crazy plans were in the beginning? Here goes: Lake Bled, then Lake Bohinj, back to Bled, then drive a convoluted route thru the middle of Slovenia’s Triglav National Park, enter Italy, stop at Tarviso town, cross into Austria and make our way to Lienz, ALL IN ONE FRICKIN DAY! Luckily, we didn’t go along with that, or we’d probably arrive in Lienz at noon the next day!!!

Anyway, here’s Bled in all its gloomy glory. Enjoy.










We, at Lake Bled


Bled, Slovenia


Our Slovenian lunch


Fancy some grapes?


Our apartment for the day - not the easiest place to find, especially when there's no signboard, you arrive at night, you don't have GPS (our car actually had GPS, ...but no map of Slovenia), and you don't have friggin internet connection!