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| The Castle of Sirok |
Gyuri was there, right by the bus stop waiting for us, and we got going around 10:15am. There was a small amount of tension in the air, partly because I felt somewhat aggrieved at Mariann's planning (taking us into areas where I have already got all caches), partly because Gyuri was tetchy and a bit irritable, probably because he wasn't feeling very well.
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| The Festival event centre |
Mariann wanted to go to the baths in Bükkszék, so we had to hurry up as much as possible. We visited a lovely castle, or to be more exact, I stayed in the car, due to my knee and the fact that I have already been there with Gyuri 18 months ago. It has now become obvious, that when Mariann does the planning, she makes no effort to take the route to where others haven't yet been either. It is all about herself. She is not as pernicious as Gizi, but she is also quite selfish and occasionally muddle headed and negligent.
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| Mariann on our balcony |
I have already decided that never will I trust her with booking the accommodation ever again, but now I will also have to do all my own planning, or I won't go with them. Gyuri can be excused, as he is a sick man, but Mariann has no such excuse and I will have to be careful in future. Especially, that I have also discovered that rather than just caching, we are also going to places where Gabi is doing sightseeing, irrespective of caching. I am perfectly OK with that, provided that is agreed with all of us, not done surreptitiously as Mariann thinks fit. The sad thing is, that I am always so careful not to be unfair to others, but now, having realised that I do not receive the same consideration from others, I will have to start being selfish myself. Such is life!
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| The wild pear tree at the top |
The baths were gorgeous, although I always have to be careful, due to my heart condition, not to be in the hot water for too long. I did the usual 5 minutes in, 10 minutes out routine and that worked. When I was out, I sat on the side of the pool, so that my knee was in the water, but the rest of me was out. Later on, I realised that I should have been completely out, as the water at Bükkszék was too strong and made my knee worse. In the long term it probably does good, but initially, it was a bit drastic for my poor damaged ligaments.
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| Mediieval chapel |
The B&B was lovely with an old fashioned, friendly, chatty and extremely helpful nice lady owner. There was tension here as well, as Gyuri took exception to me taking the other downstairs room, next to Mariann and Gabi. He demands mollycoddling, which Mariann gives him, but I don't even mollycoddle my own husband, so why should I do that to him? He would have had the heart to send me upstairs with my dodgy knee, just because he is the alfa male and feels that is his due. Also because he favours Mariann and Gabi and wanted to be next to them. Funnily enough, I only took the room because the owner said that the mattress is very hard there and I like hard beds and wanted to spare him the agony. When I offered it back to him, seeing how upset he got, he grumpily said: "You are the oldest, you have it!" I feel the end of a beautiful friendship coming on here, which is sad, but again - Such is life!!
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| Fishing lake |
On Saturday we got up early and arrived at the Geocaching Festival among the first people. We got our T-shirts, had chats with several people and then departed for the day's geocaching. Unfortunately, my knee started hurting a bit, so I decided that I will only go up to caches, which are not too far or too steep to get to. I missed out a couple, but the first one I went to was really worth it. About a third of a mile out of a village, on top of a hill were a large cross and a lovely wild pear tree. The views were to die for. Shame my new camera doesn't take panoramic pictures, but I took a few nice ones all the same.
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| Medieval decoration on a church |
There were some interesting rock formations, some lovely lakes, which were really reservoirs, but over the years the vegetation had grown up round them and many little weekend cottages were built, so they al looked very natural. My favourite on this day was a gorgeous medieval chapel, which looked rather too drastically rebuilt, but I loved it all the same.
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| The Hungting Lodge as our base |
We finished the day at a cache by a round cemetery chapel, which looked cute, but was locked, so we couldn't see inside. This cache was found by Gabi and me, as both Mariann and Gyuri stayed at the car this time. The atmosphere was electric when we got back and an extremely grumpy Gyuri said that he had enough and we are going home. Never mind their promise to come with me to mend one of my caches which wasn't very far, he decided and that was that. Roy and I are going for a 3 day away trip at the end of October to Gyula, which is right by where Gyuri lives, but I very much doubt that I will talk to him or have anything to do with him then. I think I had enough!
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| Gyuri at the church door |
Back in town I had a restful Sunday, trying to get over the privations of the trip and also nursing my knee that was pretty stiff and painful again. It could have been the walking, or the baths, or anything else, but what was funny was that it hurt in different places and in a different way from how it has been so far. Unfathomable, knees, and as it is the first time I had something like this, I was a bit stumped. I decided that I must have an ultrasound of it, as it might need some special attention and it is time that it had it.
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| Linnmon IKEA table for £15 |
On Sunday afternoon we also went to IKEA and bought a computer table, which was ridiculously cheap and easy to transport. Once the computer arrives, we will need some rejigging upstairs between the bedrooms and the bathroom. This is basically the landing, which isn't large, but I think we worked out how we will both be able to have a computer desk/table and not be in each other's way. Where Roy is now, I will be at, with the new table and another piece of furniture from downstairs which has always been in the way there anyway. Roy will move to the other end of the space, with his computer and desk. The only extra we will have to buy is an external WiFi card, like the one he has in the village, so my new machine will be on the cable and he will be on WiFi. Hopefully this will work, and I will report on this next time.
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| One of the funniest episodes with the two Whitehalls |
On Monday morning we left very early, as the car was due for its yearly service and MOT. While waiting for the car, we watched some more episodes of Who Do You Think You Are, which is back again. The bill was £300, which considering it was combined service, MOT and the cleaning of the air conditioning unit, wasn't too bad. Another £100 worth of Tesco shopping latter we were back home quickly.
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| Holliday Grainger is brilliant in The Capture |
In the afternoon I managed to book a couple of appointments for my knee ultrasound and an abdominal ultrasound as well, as I have been having some strange gurglings in the nether regions, so while on the phone I booked that as well. Those two came to nearly another £100, so the day was shaping up to be one of about £500 worth of stuff. Such is life! (This is becoming repetitive!!)
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| Apple Harvest no. 3 |
I also had an e-mail telling me that my new desktop computer is done, but I won't now have time to fetch it before next Monday, as I also had another phone call, telling me that Pityu's grape harvest has been brought forward by a week, so we are off to Monoszló on Friday. This, unfortunately, will make us absent while Rosa has her yoga camp at our place, but that is OK, as she is very competent and will cope on her own, I'm sure. The other downside is, unfortunately, that I will miss two concerts as well: 1. a free one in a neighbouring village and 2. the season opener at the Palace of the Arts with Bozsa. Shame, but such is life!!! (this is getting irritating!!)
This morning I have watched the 3rd episode of BBC's The Capture which is brilliant. I am not sure how true all this stuff about digital manipulation of video evidence is, but if a tenth of it is true, I agree with the presumed purpose of the mini-series, (other than to entertain), i.e. putting it out into the public domain, that you should take all so called "incontrovertible" evidence over anything with a very large pinch of salt. In brave 21st century England you should consider that whatever you are watching with your own eyes, could still be lying. I think there are 3 more episodes and I await them with bated breath, it's that exciting. The script, the acting and the direction/photography are all excellent and I wonder how they are going to wrap it up. We'll see!
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| Another gorgeous lake on our caching trip |
The rest of today will be taken up by gathering and burning of walnut leaves, harvesting the last two apple trees, wrapping the apples and putting them away, plus sorting some clothing, as we ended up with too much in town and need a bit more here. Anything that is superfluous, will go to charity.
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| Small remnant of ancient castle |
Tomorrow Rosa is coming to clean and set up the Bunkhouse for her yoga group and we'll have to show her the tricks over opening, locking up, turning the water off and such things as she will need to know in our absence. We'll leave about 4pm tomorrow, so that we arrive late enough not to have to pay for parking, but early enough to be in for Bozsa who is coming for my concert ticket for Árpi, whom she can now take with her to the concert, while I will be in Monoszló.
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| Circular chapel in an old cemetery |
Next week in town I will have the medical appointments, the picking up of the new desktop computer, buying a few other bits and bobs for the computer and finally, going to the Blood Transfusion Centre with Feri, so that he can give blood and I can find the geocache hidden there. I will report about all this next week or the one after (depending on the hectic nature of life around here).
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