Stopgap

We are off to Transsylvania tomorrow, so I thought I would write a few lines to stop the gap getting too big. I have taken no photographs since last time, so I posted yet another of my lovely roses and an excellent portrait of Andras, taking the video during the wedding, as snapped by Evi. Most pictures are in, and hopefully those posted to Canada are winging their way there as I write.

We have been watching a small amount of Olympics, being somewhat schizophrenic in our fervour to see both Hungary and GB do well. Laci and Koxi have arrived home yesterday and I went to return the gear and report on Sunday's Trail-O in Kecskemet. 8 competitors have hardly made the tremendous amount of work we put into the event worthwhile. We have discussed a good few points relating to the work, but I gave early warning of my intention to drop right out of Trail-O fairly soon. I am now firmer, than ever before that after the Bratislava event I will never again, REPEAT: NEVER AGAIN, control another event and will not be involved with anything other than WTOC next year, after which I am out of it altogether!! I like planning, but I might not even do any of that after 13th September, other than WTOC, because all the other crap that comes with it. It is now so much hassle that the only way to cope is to get right out. I can't desert them over WTOC, but I fully intend to drop everything else to do with Trail-O. That includes committee membership as well, although I have not yet hit Laci with that bombshell. Drip-feed, I think the best policy, even though he does not believe it yet. He can talk the hind legs off a donkey, that man, but he will get a nasty surprise when he realises how stubborn I can be.

Rant over! I am really looking forward to the Transsylvanian trip. We will travel to Nagyvarad, Torda, Torocko and finally to Kolozsvar. There is a 3-day orienteering event in and around the latter, the rest is being a tourist.

Next blog after we got back.