we got a silver medal!

well, one of our Portuguese guests did, as it turned out, our long awaited group consists of participants in the Pécs orienteering world championship. This is the first ever Portuguese medal in this event!!
We survived 3 days now in these large numbers, the atmosphere is very good.
I actually used our dry compost toilet... but there are no big queues or problems as such.
Alan reckons Hungarians aren't after all the world's noisiest people...

As we were so busy getting ready for guests, picking and processing apricots and greenbeans and marrows and looking after guests once they arrived,I had no chance to familiarise with the Kindle or with the Bicycle, but it is so nice thinking about them... tomorrow, definitely, now things are getting a bit calmer...

about the mayor fiasco ; the village knows less - except for the rumours which are this time tamer than the truth... our mayor was convicted to go to prison for 5 years for corruption. He told us at an emergency council meeting, that his company won a very (very!) lucrative contract from the customs authorities. (this is his version and I actually believe some of it) the competitor who lost brought the lawsuit and apparently had the better connection to the judge... so now that the new ex-mayor (he resigned to avoid embroiling the village in scandal(!) we are left with loads of cash his new scheme (manoeuvre with local taxes making companies to register here) making the life of a newly elected mayor rather easy. I wanted new elections for representatives, too, as 2 out of 4 do bugger all, and this would have been a better ploy to avoid that scandal, but alas, the deputy mayor who's going to be the caretaker mayor for a good few month until the mayor elections, wouldn't do it (he's worried he won't be elected again... he is on the thick side, but he is good organising events, maybe if he is elected he'll let people like the old ex-mayor think for him.

our potatoes were destroyed by some sort of weird bug, at least 2 inches long and half an inch wide, looks like something out of a science fiction... if any of you know what it is, and which eco-warrior super-hero can help it back to it's own dimension, we'll be grateful. Other pictures show Drew from last week with some pálinka, Éva relaxing in favourite corner in the usual company,and our Potuguese medalist.