 The mirror-like waters of Lake Bled |
 Tito's bed was big and wide and white. Puffy pillows and a cool bare polished boards gave the room an almost monastic look - and maybe it was a good thing that Mr President wasn't actually in the bed when I was invited to sleep there.
From all I knew of Tito, he had been a restless soul. In fact he may never have slept in this particular room. On the other hand, he may well have done so, as Vila Bled, now a prestigious Relais & Chateaux property in Slovenia, was his guest house - the dorm where he put up his friends high and low. Haile Selassie, King Hussein, Kruschev, Nehru, Indira Ghandi and Nasser all stayed here at one time or another, and they certainly would have been as wowed as I was with the neatly framed postcard view of Lake Bled and its island church through both the bedroom and lounge room windows. They surely would have been just as happy to relax, too, over a meal on the shaded terrace, again with that magical view across the lake to the thousand-year-old fortress of Bled Castle on the opposite cliffs.
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