DAY 2 - SUNDAY 13 MARCH - BLED CASTLE AND SOUTH TO SKOFJA LOKA

It's a fair walk up a cobbled pathway to the terrace at the top of the castle (chilly, as you see from the hat!) but a super view
 

and quaint well-preserved building

containing a museum and a forge.  Back down the hill 

and south across the snowy hills

we stopped in the pretty town of Radovljica

for how can you pass by a museum dedicated to gingerbread... well, honey dough in fact

then a little further south again

to our overnight stop of Skofja Loka ("bishop's meadow"), a gracious town established in 973 and with a chequered history of plague and fire, peasant revolts, earthquakes and book-burning. 

There are lots of well-preserved river terrace houses and the Cappuchin bridge, the oldest preserved bridge in Slovenia, over the Selca Spra river.