Skip the lakefront hotels and stay in a tourist farm in the villages above Bled, where the cowbells provide the alarm clock and the lake is ten minutes' drive below. Slovenian farm stays are astonishing value, breakfasts are farm-produced and hosts tend to treat children as extra grandchildren. Row to the island church, walk the Vintgar Gorge boardwalks early before the coaches arrive, and order the cream cake — kremšnita — precisely once a day.
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