{"id":4871,"date":"2021-09-16T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T21:15:58","slug":"flight-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=4871","title":{"rendered":"Flight Information and arrival Day – 1\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re off!<\/p><\/div>\n

We had arranged to have our “required” PCR test on Tuesday September 14 at the CVS in Williamsburg. They had assured us that they have a 1 or 2 day turn around of test results. We left New Point with no results, just a notice that our test results are pending. So we left anyway on Thursday, September 16, hoping we would receive a negative test result before we needed to show it. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n

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Watching the rain from the Lufthansa Lounge at Dulles<\/p><\/div>\n

We made it to Dulles (IAD) on time and without any issues. It was starting to sprinkle as we taxied out onto the runway in Richmond. Our flight from IAD to Frankfort had a delayed departure from 5:55 pm until 7:00. Since we are flying business class, we get to take advantage of the layover at Dulles in the Lufthansa Lounge. \u00a0So how bad can it be?<\/p>\n

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View from our balcony. at. Lake Bled<\/p><\/div>\n

Therefore we were booked on a later flight from , to \u00a0so we arrived in Slovenia at 1:30 pm, transferred to Lake Bled and our resort Rikli Balance Hotel, with a balcony overlooking Lake Bled.<\/p>\n

So we spent the last 18 hours traveling or waiting in the airports. By the way, our negative results for our PCR tests came through from CVS early Friday morning (about 2:30 AM). \u00a0And, when we arrived in Slovenia, the immigration police only asked for our passports and proof of Covid vaccinations. Go figure!<\/p>\n

We have a group dinner tonight but not until 6:45 pm. We’re staying awake to try to adjust our bodies’ internal clocks! Naturally, we’ll shower and change out of travel clothes. before we join the others.<\/p>\n

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Sitting Area in our room<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pretty modern, don’t you think?<\/p><\/div>\n

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n Bled, people come for the landscape and stay for the cake. Cream cake (kremna rezina) to be specific. Lighter-than-air puff pastry floats atop vanilla whipped cream and a custard pastry cream, each slice trimmed to a perfect square. Dating back to the days of the Hapsburgs, there are versions all over the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the Slovenians argue theirs is fluffier and creamer than their neighbors. Even more, they say the perfect renditions are found only in Bled. When the nation granted the dish protected origin status, it agreed; the designation only applies to kremna rezina made in this scenic city (where it was first made by Chef I\u00c5\u00a1tvan Luka\u00c4\u008devi\u00c4\u2021). Happily for you, to make it at home the way they do on the shores of Lake Bled, you need fewer than a dozen ingredients.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dinner tonight was at the Kavarna Park which. is a restaurant and cafe, \u00a0well known for their homemade ice cream and Slovenien Lake Bled Cream Cake or Kremna \u00c2\u00a0rezina affectionally known as Kremsnita! \u00a0Both Pat and I chose the fish for the evening. Pat because she prefers fish, and I was being good. \u00a0In hindsight, I should have chosen the meat to get to try both. However, fellow diners were willing to share especially towards the end when all were stuffed to the gills. We began the meal with a salmon pate with a salad.<\/p>\n

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Salmon Pat\u00c3\u00a9<\/p><\/div>\n

The next course was a tempura style shrimp on a risotto of faro which was followed by the entree. \u00a0Our entree was Mediterranean Sea bass, with<\/p>\n

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Shrimped Tempura style<\/p><\/div>\n

carrots, turnips and \u00a0a vegetable risotto. The dessert was a raspberry chocolate mousse with house made vanilla ice cream which was excellent<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mediterranean Sea bass with risotto<\/p><\/div>\n

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dessert of chocolate mousse and vanilla ice cream<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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