There's no denying that the lake resort of BLED has all the right ingredients to make up a memorable visit - a placid mirror lake with a romantic island, a fairy-tale castle high on a bluff, leafy lakeside lanes and a backdrop of snow-tipped mountains. As such it's worth a day of anyone's time, and one advantage of the tourist trade is that everything is efficiently packaged. In summer the lake, fed by warm-water springs that take the water temperature up to 76°F, forms the s... [More]