Velika Zaka
Lakeside bay with a rowing boathouse, regatta grandstand and judges' tower at the end of the course.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Velika Zaka, the western bay of Lake Bled, follows Iztok Čop, a Bled rower whose career ran from a schoolboy's days off in nineteen eighty-nine to the twenty eleven world championships on this same water. It looks at rowing in Bled as a trade learned at twelve, at the lawyer who coached Slovenia's crews, and at why this lake suits a racecourse. Best heard at the water's edge, facing the boathouse and the judges' tower.
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