Before leaving Bled, we stopped in at Tito’s old Bled villa. A white Cadillac was parked out front with plates that said, “FRANK.” The villa is a 5-star resort now and probably a 5-star home back in the day with several floors, lots of guest rooms, indoor and outdoor dining, private boathouse. We sipped a coke high atop a private terrace overlooking the lake imagining what life must have been like for the wealthy socialist. Without permission we wandered through the villa’s concert hall where a Ljubljana music professor was practicing for a performance that night. He seems startled to see unauthorized “guests” but then warmed to the idea of another audience.
Just beyond the Villa we sought adventure racing down the summer luge run that replaces the winter ski slope. The traditional chairlift takes you up the mountain where you straddle a yellow luge mounted on a steel rail. The luge is equipped with a breaking system to control your speed down the rail that snakes back and forth to the bottom of the mountain. We might have reached speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour though we have no official pictures to prove it.
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