The guests

I published the photos of the Lido Party yesterday and today it is time for pictures of our dear guests. Most of them have been coming to the hotel for many, many years.

Lido Party

Yesterday we organized a dinner for our regular guests on the Lido. Everything went well, although I was rather worried in the beginning whether the temperature will be appropriate, whether it will rain or not etc.. The atmosphere was amazing and the view of the fireworks as well. Lido is an incredibly romantic place for organizing private parties. I enclosed a lot of photos so that you can see what it looked like. Asmir and Simon and their teams have set up tables and chairs and a lot of really good food all along the lido which was lightened by torches and garden lights. I do believe that we will have to repeat this event sometimes, since everybody really enjoyed it. I must complement our life guard Gregor that not only made sure that we were all safe, but was extremely helpful with the organization.

The very last ostrich feather fans of the Kevin Darby Costumes

This probably seems as an unusual photo for my blog, but there is a rather interesting story behind it. Mr. Kevin Darbin, a creator of costumes for many shows in the UK and abroad, was a regular guest of Grand Hotel Toplice. His partner Mr. Michael Grensted, featured in the middle of the photo wanted to bring to Bled the very last ostrich feather fans from the Kevin Darby Costumes Collection, that closed down after Mr. Darby’s death a few years ago. Mrs. Wane and I were very honored by his wonderful gift that he gave us.

Thank you Mr. Grensted. It is a privilege to have something so beautiful to be brought to me from so far with such a noble purpose. Mrs. Wane had a wonderful birthday surprise as well.

Panorama Terrace

I just had to take these photos of the Panorama terrace in the morning sun since it is so charming. The flowers are in full blossom and the views are amazing. I do believe that we have the prettiest summer terrace in whole of Bled. Can you imagine sitting down here for a lovely lunch, while watching over the tranquility of the lake?

Young violinists

We had the most enjoyable concert in Grand Hotel Toplice yesterday. Several young violinists, all students of Bled Festival, performed the program that they will perform at the competition today and on Sunday. We had a pleasure of listening to the works of Mozart, Bach, Paganini, Lachner, Kreisler and Francaix. The artist were: Davide de ASCANIIS from Italy, Katja FROLOVA from Russia, Maya ITO from Japan, Hugues GIRARD from France, Ho Joon LEE from Korea, Elisa SCHACK from Italy, Eleonora NIKOLIĆ from Serbia, Sofija TOMIĆ from Serbia and Maria SOHN from Korea. I am quite sure that some of them if not all will become great stars of international world of classical music.

My sincere thanks go also to their Master Class Professor DDr. h.c. Rector em. Michael Frischenschlager, from Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts and to Mrs. Francesca Succuro for organizing such a wonderful evening.

Simply Green and Clean

I have just spent a part of my holidays abroad and there is one fact that always pleasantly surprises me when I come back to Slovenia. Slovenia is simply clean and green. I mean that the streets are clean, the rivers are clean and the motorways are clean. And I mean that we have a lot of green forests, green meadows and green pastures. Simply green and clean. This could be Slovenia’s new slogan. Of course I have to mention that in this time of the year whole of Bled is embraced by an abundance of green color.