Photos from Romanialand

Ok attempt to load up photos is underway..can't work out how to get the lay out how i want but you get the idea


This is the Danube...the land you see is Serbia!!
We passed this as we were on a long hot train journey back from Timisoara





Below left: Zoezoe and I in the rose garden
in Timisoara. Beautiful!

Adventure One (Photos to the right):

On top of the mountains in Busteni! Yes we did cheat...we took the cable car!

Summer

After a brief return to normal Cardiff weather- coinciding with the start of Wimbledon as is tradition- the halcyon days of summer continue uninterrupted.

Germany have just beaten Argentina in the quarter finals of the World Cup, much to mine and Lou's satisfaction and Andrew Murray is through to the 3rd round at Wimbledon. As can be seen from this we are spending much of our time in front of the TV.

I actually had to do some work yesterday as I lead a seminar but it was all over by lunch allowing me to carry on making my dress (now finished.)

Vix has started working 3 hours a day (just about, she finishes early most of the time) and Lou is back in the hospital of doom. Vix and I shocked her earlier by coming down to say hello to her LUNCHTIME visitor in our pyjamas... Rachel loved it!

I feel an explanation of the nightwear worn in this house will clarify why Lou was embarrassed, Victoria was sporting a very lovely bright green t-shirt saying "make trade fair" and some pink dotty pyjama bottoms. I, the picture of beauty and elegance, was wearing huge baggy surgical scrubs bottoms not quite tied up enough and a grey vest. Lovely!

On a trip to shot in the dark last night I discovered where many of the people we see in church socialise, I recognised a fair number of the people in there. Obviously as it's a coffee shop rather than a pub or bar it is ok to visit with friends, especially ones of the opposite sex.

Fran
xx

Adventuring and Doctoring

Well no one appears to have blogged for ages!! Obviously having way to much fun without me!

Weekend: Overnight train trip was very exciting - triple bunkbeds on the train!!
We had a lovely weekend in Timisoara - its an beautiful city with a fairy tale church right in the centre of town!

(Look!! I've managed a picture!! i'm in shock!!)


Then we went to stay with some contacts of zoezoe's who run a charity with street children in Arad (1hr from Timisoara). We went to meet the woman at the train station - she was surrounded by a mass of gypsy people (its probably very politically incorrect to call them that)! It was awesome! We later went and played with abandonned babies in hospital and went to a gypsy "village" (about nine houses) built around the above ground gas pipes. We went with the woman's daughter who is a medical student and was treating some of the gypsies who had cuts and burns. So i got to hold bandages and stuff which was exciting! But it was sad at the same time to see the conditions in which the families were living - never seen anything like it before in Romania.
We are thinking about going back up to Arad to do a bit more work with the charity there in one of our free weeks at the end.


Doctoring quote of the week:
Consultant "what are you doing?"
SHO(very proudly) "I'm talking to the english students about Eminescu" (Eminescu is a famous Romanian writer)
Consultant "Why aren't you working?"
SHO (very very suprised) 'Working!!??!!"

Hilarious the SHO seems to have an aversion to work - he never quite seems to know what he is meant to be doing or which patients are his! That's going to be me soon!! Haha - Hospitals beware!!!

Anyway our consultant guy is away for the next two weeks...so two weeks free to er...uh...Work on our projects of course!!!

We had a lecture this morning on Cystic Fibrosis from the world's number one CF consultant from Imperial College London, UK! It was truely informative and joyous! Zoezoe and I were proudly presented to him at the end, he asked us what our project was on and I was like "er well its just a project i don't know er...um... we're just writing a load of rubbish really" then we ran away!

Think thats about all for now.
I'll love you and leave you.
Hxx