Dave the motorhome is happily parked up at Camping Bled by Lake Bled (N46.36163 E14.08098) in Slovenia.<\/p>\n
We were up quite early for us, but Jon and Anne were already up, showered and breakfasted – looks like the seven months we’ve been on the road has altered our sleep patterns and an early get up is anything before 8.30am! \u00a0After a quick Dave tidy up and a bite to eat we set off in Jon’s car to drive the Vrsic pass, the highest pass in Slovenia.<\/p>\n
There was a path there for many years that the locals used to ‘nip’ over to the next town for some shopping, but during the first world war it was upgraded from a path to a road to supply the Isonzo front. How do you go about getting the man power to build something like that? You get in 10,000 Russian prisoners of war. The area was so prone to avalanches that the prisoners worked under anti-avalanche\u00a0fences, but they weren’t strong enough for two of the avalanches and over 300 prisoners and several Austrian guards lost their lives. \u00a0On the 90th Anniversary of the road opening part of it was renamed the Russian road in memory of those who lost their lives.<\/p>\n
The pass is 24km long, but has 50 hairpin bends and lots of other tight twists and turns, which made over all feel a little queasy, but Jay still managed to get some good video footage – he’s a trooper.<\/p>\n