The invalide's second week

As I have written last week, Felicia was due to arrive from Austria on Tuesday, which she has duly done. She was dragging an enormous suitcase, which prompted Roy to ask: "How long is she coming for?" I had no idea, but I assumed she wasn't going to stay more than a week, which eventually turned out to be only 5 days.

Felicia in the garden pavilion

Due to my incapacity, my planned hikes in the Bér hills have never materialised, but we still managed to  occupy ourselves sufficiently not to be too bored. We were talking a fair amount of politics, had done some reading, I helped her a bit with her essay in Hungarian, sat out in the pavilion, where I have discovered recently that the WiFi just gets to, so there is no point in sitting indoors in good weather with the computer.

Roy mowing the grass

Roy managed to conjure up the most amazing meals out of very little, we also did some gardening, mowing (partly with the push mower and some on the tractor), washing and other household chores.  Janó and Marci were around some of the time, doing mapping in the nearby forests.

Finally, we decided to come into town on the Saturday, thinking that we might go and see the fireworks on the river. To be quite honest, I have seen them so many times before, that I was inclinced to stay in and nurse my knee, but Felicia thought she might go out for it.  As it happens, she didn't, so we were indoors for the rest of the day.

I watched a bit of TV as well and Felicia joined me in enjoying NCIS Los Angeles, which she has never seen before.  Interestingly, the actual episodes that were on were new to me too.  They were rerunning the very first series, of which I have never seen the absolute earliest ones, including the first one.  Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J and Daniella Ruah all looked a lot thinner and a lot younger, and I loved them just as much as in the later episodes.

A youthful Callan and Sam

On Sunday she rang her relatives to ask if they were going to be in during the day and they said that even if they were not, they would leave the key somewhere, so that she could get in.  Therefore, we decided to drive her to Dunaharaszti with a bit of geocaching built in.

Ervin Baktay museum in Dunaharaszti

We stopped in the middle of Dunaharaszti to get a two parter, with Roy being his usual clever self finding part 1 in a bush and I found part 2 on the back of a bench in front of the Ervin Baktay museum. After that we travelled through some rather weird, unmade up roads to get to her relatives' house, who, needless to say, were out and there was no key anywhere either. We hung around for a while, but she looked OK in the garden, so we left her there. She later rang to say that her relatives have turned up and all was fine.

The Water Tower of Soroksár

Dr. István Túri memorial

En route home we did a bit of geocaching in Soroksár, around a water tower and near a botanical gardens.  We didn't find the first one, but the second one was easy. I also wanted to get one near the National Theatre back in town, but Roy got into the wrong lane and couldnát turn left, so we did that the following day.

On Monday the weather changed, but we couldn't avoid having to go out, because I had to see the doctor in the A&E hospital again with my knee.  He was pleased with its progress and told me I didn't have to see him again. The leg proved quite OK for walking, as this time we went by public transport and did some shopping afterwards.  We did get soaked in the rain, but otherwise the day wasn't too bad. The leg held and we even went back for the cache we missed the day before.

Actress Hilda Gobbi's bronze statue

Today we stayed in so far, mostly to rest the leg, but I think we will have a little outing again, just to stop going stir crazy from staying indoors too much. Roy has just told me that the weather looks good, so I think we should be off soon. Talk to you again next week!