Tuši's blog: 13982

Sunday, August 27, 2017

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Slovenia: With bikes to Semič Wedding, Day 2

The 23rd Traditional Wedding Event Semiška ohcet is being held in Semič and my bike repairer Peter organized a mountain bike trip to the event.

After the night and a breakfast at homestead Šrajf, we visited nearby partisan hospital Topolovec, where Blaž Štangelj explained us how the hospitals were organized and how they took care of the wounded during WW2. After the short history lesson, we were back in saddle and on our way to source of the Krupa River. Its extremely beautiful karst spring became unfamous, since the capacitor manufacturing company Iskra kondenzatorji polluted the water with PCBs for twenty years, from 1962 till 1984. What it hurts is that the country still doesn't care much about it. Our group soon continued, we had a short stop for tasting the honey and then we continued to Geršiči, where we said hi to Peter's grandma and a little past noon we were in front of the private army museum, owned by Alfonz Baškovič. He showed and told us many interesting things, but since time flies, we had to continue back to our yesterday's starting point, Podgrad, where were were welcomed by the local guy Slavc. Once again they served us awesome local food. Sunday was approaching its end, so we also said goodbye to each other and we finished another great cycling adventure.

Check out our first day on the event: 13981

Time to wake up

Ambulance from WW2 and our group infront of the museum. From September 15, 1944 to April 27, 1945, a Slovene military partisan evacuation hospital with an illegal name Topolovec was founded in the settlement of Čresnjevec. It was established after the allies in May 1944 announced that they were ready to accept wounded fighters at their hospitals in southern Italy. Seriously wounded fighters and disabled people needed safe, long-term treatment and orthopedic surgery and devices, which partisan hospitals could not offer them.

Group from all over Slovenia

Back in the saddle

We cycled on various terrain

Beautiful source of polluted Krupa river

Honey tasting

Following the stream of river Krupa and later on Lahinja

Riding in the shade of white carniolan forest

Carst cave Judovska hiša (Jewish house) on the left bank of the river Krupa, is a famous prehistoric archeological site.

Nada in her home region

Spring near Geršiči

We covered also some asphalt roads

Alfonz Baškovič from Praproče has a registered collection of weapons and military equipment from the Second World War, the Yugoslav Army and the Slovene Independence War. Now there are 600 items in the collection, such as firearms and cold weapons, mines, grenades, military equipment and decorations.