BOVEC - SLOVENIA

It's already too late in the year to go across the Vrsic pass which made me quite ill last time so I was pleased when the apartment owner confirmed that a road did go through from Bohinj to Bovec without back-tracking. What neither the owner nor the GPS indicated was the kind of road it was. We left Bohinj elated with the beautiful views but were soon faced with 127km of hair-pin turns, blind corners and sheer drops only feet from the road edge. The scenery may have been beautiful if I hadn't been terrified. By the time we got  to Bovec we had shaken nerves and I had a sore foot from where I had applied the imaginary brake on the passenger side.


Of course Bovec  - Oscar's parents home town - proved worth the trip there. We stayed at Stare Kovac again with owners Veno and Nada who were so friendly that each time we saw them we had to stop for a shot of Borovnice (strong blueberry spirit). Mum and Dad pleased to see Veno's car - a Navara just like the beast. Not much was happening in Bovec of course, Mum and Dad set out to walk to the end of  town one day and returned quite soon after they left - they didn't really need to take the day pack! We caught up with Max's cousin Palmira and her husband Franz who Ruby really took to - she couldn't understand him so must have thought he was babbling, she returned the babble and the two of them giggled away together until they were nearly crying. The next day Ruby spotted Palmira up in the choir loft at church and blew her kisses.

Oscar saw his cousin Jani a few times including when Jani found us having dinner at a restaurant on the outskirts of town to return Ruby's hat- they really don't need mobiles in Bovec, everyone knows anyone can be found at any time. The rain started before we left - that and the blocked toilet signalled time to move on. We stopped in Graz, Austria on the way home and had just a touch of snow along the way.