After last weekend's orienteering and geocaching most activities this week centred round town. As a result of the Skerletz Ivan memorial meeting on Friday, Roy resumed his research into Ripszam Henrik, the founder of Hungarian orienteering. He just found Henrik's UK naturalisation papers and rewritten the working document on Henrik's life slightly with my help. As Skerletz Ivan was keen on the history of Ripszam Henrik, Roy's work might find its way into the book about Ivan, which would be quite interesting.
I went to the baths three times this week and found that the new masseur, recommended by my favourite guy who is not doing massage any more, is really very good. He can do stuff more in the line of osteopathy, rather than massage, although he's good at that as well. The only hiccup was that on Friday he got stuck in traffic and was late, which was unfortunate, considering I was close to my 3 hour deadline on my visit, after which I have to pay another £6, not to mention my appointment in Parliament, which I was trying to get by 3.30pm (more about that later).
Cultural activities have taken up most of this week: A visit to the Opera to see Don Giovanni. It was great, even though the critics panned it. What do they know? On Wednesday I saw a fantastic organ concert where Professor Bossert and his pupil Balazs Szabo played Liszt and Bach. It was superb, if somewhat long, as I didn't get home until about 11pm. One total fluke at that concert was finding myself sitting next to the wife of the president of my orienteering club, who is an A1 first class witch (or was it bitch?) - who cares? Thankfully madam switched seats with her husband, who was a bit more user friendly for the rest of the evening.
Last night's Mozart and Haydn was also sheer joy, this time in the Italian Institute. It made me realise how much I love both those composers and this time, other than Haydn's Clock Symphony, the pieces were totally unknown to me. Tonight is the last one for this week: the first one of a series of four concerts centering on the violin.
Other events included making trruffles with a good orienteering friend and attending the launch of this year's Democracy Academy in Parliament. This latter initiative is interesting, but I am not yet sure if I want to get a long term involvement with it. We'll see! Finally, the culinary treat of this week was a visit to a Japanese restaurant which I have been eyeing up for months and finally managed to get a lovely sushi meal at. It was really good, if somewhat expensive.
And this morning I had another little chat with my resident little monster from across the pond. He was watching his favourite cartoon on line, so while I could see his little mush, he didn't bother to see or talk to me, while he was watching it. At the end he played car races with his mum and during all this I managed to get some snapshots of him. I know I wrote that there would be no pictures, but now there are. Enjoy!!
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