As an addendum to the last post I must show you a place where it was raining carrots. On our way back from the Juniper Cup, in a remote part of the flatlands we suddenly spotted a hundredweight bag of carrots in the middle of the road. We thought it must have literally fell off the back of a lorry, so we left it. Few hundred yards later there was another one, but this one had a pickup parked next to it, so we thought: Ahhh, new home it's going to! Few more yards, and this time no bag, just a scattering of carrots, remnants of an earlier rescue. Finally, in a mile or two there was a desperate looking couple of fellows in another pickup, who were assisting me taking a photograph, on a mission of recovery. I told them to hurry up before all of them find a new home before they get there. At least this Sunday it was not the usual boring old trip on this bit, one could take guesses how many more bags of carrots will litter the roadside.
And now for the exciting events of yesterday. As it was our 43rd wedding anniversary we went to a really fancy (and expensive) restaurant where Roy had a piece of steak roughly about 3 inches thick and I had a red tuna salad. It was great, I could hardly finish mine and he had a small struggle at the end as well. I had a nice glass of Irsai Oliver, while he had beer. This was definitely the highlight of the day (see photos!)
Once at home, the day, unfortunately, took a dive. We were attempting to buy some of the tickets for the family's trip over to us in the summer, but the agency (eDreams) we were using seemed to have some weird practices. They managed to accept and confirm our booking, only to cancel it later due to the credit card company declining the purchase. It transpired that the payment to eDreams for their services had gone through (about 130 Euros) before the transaction was stopped. Now that's really wicked. Having paid handsomely for some tickets now we didn't have we had to ring both the credit card company AND eDreams before they sorted it and not before we both had quite a lot of stress and hassle!! :-( Boo!! Lesson: I should have listened to Alex suggesting I deal with the airline direct. Now I've learnt that that is what I will do in future, whatever the cost. AND only after ringing the card company warning them of an unusually large purchase so they don't stop the transaction.
And now for the exciting events of yesterday. As it was our 43rd wedding anniversary we went to a really fancy (and expensive) restaurant where Roy had a piece of steak roughly about 3 inches thick and I had a red tuna salad. It was great, I could hardly finish mine and he had a small struggle at the end as well. I had a nice glass of Irsai Oliver, while he had beer. This was definitely the highlight of the day (see photos!)
Once at home, the day, unfortunately, took a dive. We were attempting to buy some of the tickets for the family's trip over to us in the summer, but the agency (eDreams) we were using seemed to have some weird practices. They managed to accept and confirm our booking, only to cancel it later due to the credit card company declining the purchase. It transpired that the payment to eDreams for their services had gone through (about 130 Euros) before the transaction was stopped. Now that's really wicked. Having paid handsomely for some tickets now we didn't have we had to ring both the credit card company AND eDreams before they sorted it and not before we both had quite a lot of stress and hassle!! :-( Boo!! Lesson: I should have listened to Alex suggesting I deal with the airline direct. Now I've learnt that that is what I will do in future, whatever the cost. AND only after ringing the card company warning them of an unusually large purchase so they don't stop the transaction.
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