It has been quite a long time since I posted anything, so let's see what has happened in the meantime?
Most of the week before last was spent at Ber. We did a lot of gardening, grass cutting and generally tidying up the garden. I even managed to get round to pruning the apricot tree, which was probably not quite done at the right time, but as I have been planning to do it for years and now was the opportunity to do it, I went for it. Amazingly, the poor little tree has produced a nice little crop of apricots, which I am really looking forward to harvesting as soon as we get back to Ber, hopefully tomorrow.
By the end of that week the money arrived from Britain for the car, so we came in by bus on the Sunday afternoon to deal with it. After a certain amount of shenanigans we managed to get a few forints over the odds in exchanging it, although due to currency fluctuations we still lost at least 300 pounds in the transaction. Such is life!
On Monday we went out to Cinkota to pay for the car and arranged to pick it up the following Tuesday. Late that day Philip arrived from England bearing some useful gifts, like Cheddar and other goodies. He also brought us a Sky box, which he managed to pick up for about a third of what we have paid for one 2 years ago, but then again, Sky has produced Sky+ since then and the price of the ordinary box has dropped.
On Tuesday we went to pick up Papi's car, which he very kindly offered to lend us and departed for the Hungaria Kupa in Tata. The pictures above are all from the beautiful town of Tata, about an hour West of Budapest by car. The orienteering was not the best, but bearable, although the heat was horrendous, which made the steep mountains and fast parks rather hard. Unfortunately my class was devoid of quality opposition, so my impressive tally of wins is not as meaningful as it seems. Still, I am now a proud owner of 4 yellow jerseys, a gold medal and a carrier bag full of pasta (courtesy of the pasta manufacturing sponsors).
As I do not have a scanner in BP, the maps will appear later when we got back to Ber. With a bit of luck that should be tomorrow by when we have been promised the car. In the meantime we have watched in horror on the live departure screen today that Philip's flight has been delayed by 2 and half hours - poor man, he must have got rather bored of Budapest Airport by the end.
Sign off now as I have rabbited on long enough. Hopefully the car pick up will go off without a hitch and the next post should come from Ber. Some longish gaps should appear later on in July as we are off to Czech and I am off to Sweden later.
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