Post-wedding events

Life was supposed the settle down after the big event was over, but that is yet to happen. I drove the newlyweds with Stephen and Katy to BP on the Friday after the wedding, where the latter caught a flight straight home and the former had lunch with me and then got on the train to Zagreb.

In the meantime Andor brought in Nancy and Delaney who had an afternoon of sightseeing in BP, stayed at the flat overnight and went by taxi to pick up their hire car to Slovenia in the morning.

Following their departure I went to my Venezuelan Conference which was very interesting. I met some lovely and not so lovely people, almost met the ambassador and formulated some great plans for the future.

On return to Ber I found the remaining tribe hard at it clearing up, which they made an excellent
job of. Heather and Lyle have very kindly offered to catch the bus on Monday to save me yet another foray into the capital and we waved good-bye to them at 9am. That just left Mike and Sheila who were happy to help with trying to get the candle wax out of the tablecloths, watering the garden and a variety of other household chores during the next couple of days.

One day we went to Paszto, where we visited the place that does all those lovely wooden painted objects and did some shopping. Finally it looked as if we have tidied up, cleared up and washed everything from the wedding; returned all borrowed furniture, cutlery and crockery (except the Mayor's stuff, who doesn't seem to want it!!!) and left for BP on Thursday.

Mike and I enjoyed a brilliant, if somewhat long, performance of Don Carlos at the Opera that night and we have been trying to keep a reasonable balance of resting and outings ever since then. The pictures are of one of the hanging baskets of perlagonia, one of the roses and Sheila on the river boat where we spent an afternoon travelling up and down the Danube the other day.

In the meantime we also heard from one of the ladies whose apartment Alex and Meaghan were honeymooning in, confirming their safe arrival, which was nice. We heard nothing from the rest of them, which must mean they are all OK. No news is good news!! Hopefully, Nancy and Delaney are already home and the Turners and Grants are flying home today. I can't wait to hear from them once they are back home with the news of Venice and the Dalmatian coast.

Sheila and Mike are leaving us on Wednesday, after which we intend to spend a couple of days in Sopron to recuperate, followed by several orienteering events in one weekend - some in Hungary and some in Austria just over the border.