Sladoled!

I didn't spend enough time taking photos of food while I was gone. 

This is Lake Bled.  Lake Bled is best known for its local dessert, something called the cream slice.  The cream slice is a shell of flaky pastry, filled with custard and whipped cream, served in cube-shaped slices about the size of a human head.  I love and miss the cream slice. 

These are the remains of a traditional Slovene meal, which consisted of every type of product you can get out of that magical animal Jenny's people don't eat and horseradish.  Because there were vegetarians in the group, we also had bread, a few slices of Alsatian cheese and about a teaspoon of something that looked and tasted like spinach dip. 

The building on the left is Pri Slonu (Hotel Elephant), in the old part of Ljubljana.   This is the place I most frequently busted out my few words of Slovene: "Črna kava, prosim."   The coffee in Ljubljana is generally excellent.  Directly behind the building on the left is the beautiful Ljubljanska, a river that's apparently archaeologically significant?  I don't know.  I do know that the ice cream (sladoled) you can get on its banks is delicious, easily as good as the gelatto we had in Venice.  Best flavor: Raffaello.

This is my favorite Central European snack food, "Smoki" brand flips sa kikikirijem, which were sort of like cheese doodles, only peanut-flavored.