Week-end in Plzeň

The first week-end of the folks stay with us, turned out by chance, to be a very social week-end with a dinner invitation on the Saturday night; and an afternoon tea invitation for Sunday.

My Boss, George, was celebrating his birthday, and so invited a number of people around for a Saturday afternoon braai, and had his new HD TV shipped in just in time for us to watch SA beat Wales. George in true South African fashion laid on a feast of a braai, with boerewors, sosaties and even the grilled tomato/onion sandwiches.

One of the other couples, a Czech colleague, has daughters about the same age as Amber and Sarah, so they took to the garden instantly and played games all afternoon, and the lack of common language was no problem at all.

Motherdux enjoyed the opportunity to get to know the Czech couple and plied them with questions the whole afternoon about life growing up in the CZ, under communism and out of it. Mom was in her element!

On Sunday, Granny spent some time playing games with the girls:

while the boys spent time discussing important matters downstairs:

After I got back from my run, we headed out to the local parks to let the girls ride their bicycles and get out of the house for a while.

We first went to the park a couple of hundred metres from our apartment, but when I saw Grannie on the distant horizon, eager for a walk, I suggested that we take a walk further and go to the "witches hat park", that has a nice forest as well for the folks to enjoy.

Even though it was a 2km slog uphill, it turned out to be a successful outing: Motherduck propping up a tree






On Sunday afternoon, we were invited to Michal & Štěpánka's house for afternoon tea. They have a huge mansion on the outskirts of Plzeň with a swimming pool and all.

Michal has built his house right next door to his parents, whose garden is a little bit more established than theirs. Michal is also building a pool, but the whole garden is a building site still, so the parent' pool is it.


Mom & Dad surveying the scene:

While Dad works up a sweat:


After swimming, Michal's mom invited M&D to join her for some coffee, so the old folks enjoyed a good chit chat on her patio - while she could speak no English and they could speak no Czech. Needless to say, the conversation was short lived and they soon came strolling back over bearing cakes.

Back home again, and the family enjoying supper in our kitchen.