Jez and I woke up feeling fresh this morning from the clean mountain air of Bovec. To further add to our freshness, we had a very respectable breakfast of fruit and bread; not a delicacy we tend to indulge in often.
The whole purpose of our trip to Bovec was to try our hand at some white water rafting. Both our travelling books mentioned that if you are going to do white water rafting anywhere in Europe, Bovec is the place to do it. The water here is nothing like you will find anywhere else in the world. It is extremely clear and a picturesque turquoise colour.
Jez and I had booked the rafting the day before, so at 10am we headed off to get our raft on. The rafting was awesome, with Jez and I in a mini raft with just the 2 of us and an instructor. The water was a crisp 11 degrees and the instructor, noticing our powerful rafting strokes, took us on all the better lines (a line is a channel of water that flows down the river) so we got the most out of our experience. There were some rapids in which we went down sideways. In order to keep the raft afloat, we actually had to lean into the rapid rather than away. Still, we performed this maneuver with aplomb and to our credit did not flip over once.
The best rapid of the day was the last one. We went down sideways and then proceeded to ‘surf’ the rapid. Surfing occurs when you hit the bottom of the rapid and don’t move on account of the water going every which way and hence not pushing you forward. Real talk. Its pretty cool because you get stuck at the bottom for a few seconds whilst all the water pours down around you.
After our white water rafting adventure, we caught the bus back which was as uneventful as a snail climbing up a wall. Not a snail that is high on drugs mind you, but just an ordinary snail.
We got back to Ljubljana and chilled out for a while. For dinner that night we walked around the river area of Ljubljana where all the restaurants are congregated and had pizzas for dinner. There were 3 sizes of pizzas to choose from: Small, classic and family. Jez and I chose a classic each. We were given enough pizza that we could have used them as rafts during the white water rafting we had done earlier in the day. Despite the challenge that our Italian food provided, we quickly demolished them. Jez even had room left over for an ice cream.
We went to one of the bars for a beer, but as nothing was really happening we decided to call it a day and went to bed.
Word,
Monty
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