Bled is the location that features in pretty much every piece of Slovenia-related literature you can find in print and on the internet. It’s hardly surprising, given that you have a lake that’s an unreal shade of blue, an island with a picture-perfect church on it, and a cliff-top medieval castle.

We’ve also walked to the Vintgar Gorge, a 1600m stretch of, erm, gorge. This is proper gorge – steep, narrow, and with a vicious river running through the bottom. A wooden walkway was constructed down the gorge in 1893 and has been continuously repaired ever since. It looks a bit dodgy in places!

The walk back to Bled over Hom and through Zasip is also well worth doing, as is the short but incredibly steep trip up to the Osojonica viewpoint at the south-west end of the lake.