A short week in the village

The night following my last post was a nightmare. My heart was all over the place and it wouldn't let me sleep. Finally I dropped off about 1.30am, but didn't sleep long enough or deep enough.  I was really done in by the morning so I had to postpone the geocaching hike that was planned for Tuesday. Instead of hiking I spent most of the day in bed and by the end of it felt quite OK.

Stephen in the Brody Studios

On Wednesday I went to the hairdressers and she had shorn me for the summer. I like it short, but she got rather carried away, so I started looking like a frightened sheep straight away. Hilarious, I know, but I hope it grows a bit to look a bit less crazy.

Roy on his tractor

On Wednesday, Stephen arrived bang on time, as Austrian trains are really efficient. He was with another comic and the promoter, who then said he would come and pick him up at quarter to 7 in the evening. We followed by public transport and arrived with still too much time until it all started. Unlike last time, when the performance was in the courtyard, this time it was on the first floor in a large room which had got renovated and decorated since we were last there. The atmosphere was great, the audience was good and Stephen was probably the funniest I have ever seen him. We enjoyed it tremendously and had a bloody good time.

On Thursday we took him to the airport and went from there straight to the village. En route we popped into the garage, asking if they could swap the winter tyres for the summer ones, but they couldn't. Hopefully, that'll be done tomorrow on our way back to town. We did a small(ish) Tesco shop and got home with enough time in the day left to start on mowing the grass. Roy did the back on the tractor and I used the old mower to do the front.  It nearly killed me, I should have stopped a lot sooner than I did.

The first lake

When Friday arrived, I was really grateful that the geocaching crowd that was supposed to come for a weekend didn't come. Feri had a friend offer him free tickets with paddock access at the Hungaroring where they had some touring car races and I totally understood that he didn't want to miss that.  Additionally, Gyuri's wife had serious tooth trouble, so he didn't want to leave her behind, so we postponed the weekend until later on in the summer or to the autumn.

The little antique fire engine

Friday and Saturday we carried on with the mowing in fits and starts, but I must admit Roy did the vast majority of it. He started using the new strimmer too, so the garden looks really nice again. Finally, on Sunday (today), we went geocaching in West Nógrád in the sudden high heat, which didn't do my heart much good. Still, we had a lovely time, collected loads of caches, took lots of lovely photos and finally had a really nice lunch in the same restaurant that we discovered last time we cached in that area.

The glorious Börzsöny in the distance

The theme of the day was lakes. We saw at least 6 or 7 and found some caches near quite a few of them. I climbed up to a ruined medieval castle, visited quite a few springs, walked up to a Golgotha in a cemetery and saw a cute village which had lots of interesting bits, including an old fire engine which Roy loved.

The castle gate with a few walls still standing

Tomorrow we are off to have the tyres changed (hopefully) and then into town, where I am going to the theatre in the evening with a friend and on Tuesday on the hike that got postponed from last week. Speak to you soon, hopefully!!