Home again, part 1.

This post was written 9 days ago and then got forgotten, as I didn't have the time to insert the photos. So today I am going to post twice:
1. First this one (after I inserted the photos)
2. Part 2 will mostly be the story of our Easter and our return to the village since.

The tractor driver

Forsythia

It is more than 3 weeks since I have last posted, and that is mostly due to us struggling with jetlag and after that just being so snowed under with things to do that we hardly ever managed to breathe, never mind blog.

Jetlag was most certainly a killer. We are now both in our 70's and neither of us copes well with 6 or 7 hours of difference. Amazingly, we adjusted quite well in Mexico, but having come home I, especially, was all over the place. For days I could not go to sleep until 2 or 3am, then slept until late and felt like a zombi all day.  We are more or less over it by now, but it was hard to function normally for ages, and we also had a great deal planned, which had to be done.

Chives

Sorrel

We were planning to stay in town for a while due to commitments, but I had to pop down to the village to fetch the car and because a good friend was working in the area and I offered her a bed for the night. I found the fruit trees in blossom and the herb garden in good fettle.  I had a really nice evening with her and then drove the car into town the following morning.

The big event of the next weekend was my geocaching hike in the Velence Mountains and that is the reason why I needed the car. I booked a couple of nights in a B&B near Velence lake and decided to cache on my own en route down there, and once Gyuri and Feri turned up do a bit of caching together.  That is exactly what happened and things worked out great.

Apple blossom

Morello cherry blossom

I cached until about 3pm, then went to the B&B, checked in and waited for Gyuri and his wife Eva. They finally arrived and then we went out together. A few more caches were found and when Feri turned up as well, we had dinner in the B&B. The staff was nice, the place quite comfortable and we were satisfied with the place.

On Saturday the big hike happened to attract about 35 people, which wasn't bad, considering the forecast was abysmal. Thankfully it never rained, only tried, but never got going. On and off even the sun came out, so we can chalk this up to have been a success as well. Needless to say the company has broken up into separate groups even earlier than otherwise used to be the case.  A considerable chunk went off to get a far away cache not on the route, so they had a longer hike, but never caught us up for the rest of the day.

Group photo at the start

Bence-hegy lookout tower

The middle and late group went together for quite a while after that, but eventually the middle went ahead and I was with a handful of slow people, like myself, who were actually really delightful and a joy to be with. I got back to the B&B by abut 4pm, had a nice long chat with the remaining crowd, then had dinner and retired early.

The day after we all got up and went our separate ways. I went into the nearby major town for a moving cache and then started my slow progress towards home, caching all the way.  The final count was 23 for the weekend, which was acceptable and as far as kilometres are concerned, I did appr. 17km on the Saturday and probably something similar in bits on the day before and after the hike, if you add all the walking together on those two days. The countryside was gorgeous and even the overcast weather could not spoil my enjyoment.

On the hike

Logging the cache by the boulder

Then yesterday we came down to the village and started on many of the chores that were calling on our time. Roy did the tractor mowing and some of the intricate bits with the push/pull petrol mower and I did a fair amount of weeding. Unfortunately our strimmer is still knackered, but soon we will have to decide whether it is worth spending any more money on it or should we buy another one.

I took some photos and videos of the herb garden, the flowers, vegetables, fruit trees and Roy mowing with the tractor. Unfortunately, the videos were taken with my camera and apparently I haven't got the software to download them into my computer with. Great shame, as one of them is really brilliant, but I might still find someone who can help me, I hope.
PS: Later on in the week I discovered that Roy's new computer in town downloaded all the videos with no problem whatsoever. This makes me think that the old  computers will have to go soon.

Large rock walls

Height above sea level marker

Today we were making a giant trifle, as we are off to Monoszló on Thursday for the whole of Easter. After that we are back to some more geocaching with Karesz and Feri (another Feri this time), who have invited me to go with them by train to Zalaegerszeg to do all the town caches there. It should be fun, as these are the two guys we totally accidentally ran into in Szombathely last month, ending up spending the whole day with them collecting every cache in the city together.  They were good fun then and it should be fun again.

The view

A hill top

After that there is the Geocaching club's AGM, followed by 3 concerts all in a row. Carmella is due to arrive with a friend a few days after that, so I don't t hink we will be arriving in Bér for some time yet. The first weekend in May is taken up by the Geocaching Festival and Competition in the South and the one after that I'm due to visit my friend Edit in Veszprém for a spot of geocaching, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!!

Orgona

N'rcisy

I hope you are getting the general gist why I don't post too often any more. Is it that our schedule is too hectic, or we are getting too old to keep up with our desire to do things, as we have always done so? Don't know, but retirement is still fun, so I shouldn't complain. :) :) :)