Today was an open day
in Kranjska Gora. Three of my kids went for mountain biking. Mountain biking is
not easy. It requires supervised training. My three boys had to descend from
the mountain through curves, jumps and steep slopes with gravel. The rest would
go on the chair lift up the mountain and slide down on a toboggan. Then they would
ascend again on the chair lift but this time they would hike down.
One of our mountain
bikers could not make it. He fell at the start and opted to leave because it
was too dangerous for him. The others completed their training but at the final
leg, one of them toppled over a descending curve and was hurt. When we reached
him, he was in pain and requested me to check if he had any broken bones. We
took him to the emergency in Jesenice, a 20-minute drive, where a couple of X-rays
showed that he had suffered no broken bones, although he was in pain for the next
five days. They put his right arm in a sling.
A video clip showing their mountain biking:
Once we came back from
the hospital, the rest of the family were waiting for us – eager to have a
delicious lunch prepared by our host Mr. Gregor, the owner of the Slovenia
Explorers Travel firm. He prepared a roasted lamb in a unique way. The whole
lamb was cleaned and put between two steel meshes. Then it was put inside a
wooden box with a tin-covered interior. The box with the lamb was covered with
a steel tray with charcoal on top for one and a half hours. It was then removed
and inverted so the other side could roast for another half an hour. They
said that they had imitated this process from an American family in the
US. The lamb was very tasty according to the testimony of everyone present. We
had it with Slovenian bread, tomatoes, hot pepper, cucumbers with yogurt, and
scallions.
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