Day 24--Taking Slovenia's White Roads to a Farm-stay

We have learned a new word for gravel roads, 'white roads'.  Kinda softens it, doesn't it?  Below is a road work we stumbled on.   We should never complain about what our job is again.  This looks like tough work.  First, that is chain link fencing on the slope, the workers are attaching it to the side of the road cut. At the 'red light' we watched them lurch along, hanging on to the fencing as they walked about.  The crane holds their tools.  The red light is an automatic one-way-controller.  No flagmen!  It's automatic yet senses both cars and bikes, we have seen them frequently in our travels in the Baltic.

Also, what we have seen and can't believe is the farming of these same steep hillsides.  Tom, our farmer, feels they are primarily planting and harvesting timothy grass.  It is great for livestock and when harvested, baled and wrapped, makes good sillage, (fermented high-moisture feed).  Back to the steep hillsides.....we are amazed the farmers can even run their tractors, win-rowers and balers in the hills!  But they do.  The saying in Slovenia is the hay fields are so steep when the dogs are on them they have to hold on to the grass by their teeth and they bark out their ass.  Actually, I believe it!

We start our day by walking to 'Slap Rinka'.  This is the second highest waterfall in Slovenia at 105 meters.  What is unique here is the limestone cone at its base.  This has formed over the eons by the dissolved minerals in the water, very interesting.

Onward to the Solcav Panoramic Road.  One of the best scenic roads we had ever been on.  We have included a few pictures though almost impossible to capture on film.

Our lodging tonight is in a 'farm'stay'.  You stay at a 'farmhouse'.  It is similar to the traditional bed and breakfast, but it is really isolated with lots of pasture and cows around.  We had a great time.  Ate a traditional Slovenian dinner, which means lots of milk products and meats.  And a traditional Slovenian breakfast, which means lots of milk products and meats, with eggs thrown in.  The view from our room.....

Finally, we visited Austria!  Sorta.  With the EU, borders are a little lax, we took a wrong term and ended up in another country!  No border control, we took a picture, stepped over the border and returned to Slovenia.