Off To The Dentist in Belgrade to Be Crowned!

Well, that was one long protracted work of patience to get this far...

That is to eventually have the 3 door shed repaired enough that I can finally go and receive my long awaited crown!

Make that 2 crowns...and add Dentist to the mix...not so posh after all.

Am going on Sunday afternoon train to Budapest and will just wait a few hrs for the 10pm train to Belgrade, arriving 7am.

Am not going sight seeing or anything on the way down but will spend the full day in Budapest on the way back in 10 or so days after arriving in Belgrade.

Will check in to my hostel, opposite the dentists where I have an appointment at 10am Monday next.
Will be glad to have the big back tooth fixed so I can get rid of the gaps she left for the crowns to slip over the existing teeth.

This will be my first 2 crowns, so have no idea how it all goes.
Looking forwards to catching up with friends down there, visiting my castle there and having a champers with Jelena and Venos at the beautiful Astoria Hotel, just near the train station and about 100 mtrs from the dentists!

My fave room...Hotel Astoria, Belgrade

Not sure if I should go for the bubbly before or after the crowns!

The best room in Belgrade to have a long, cold glass of champers...poured for you from your own piccolo bottle...yaahy. All for under 2 dollars!

OK...just booked my bed and got the last one where I wanted it...all for 5 Euros a night, plus a 1 Euro visitor tax a night. (an Euro is worth 1.52 Ausd), so that's about $9 Ausd a night all up.

Not bad for a lovely fully equipped kitchen, full bathrooms with real baths, wifi and right in the heart of Belgrade. This will be the 4th time I've stayed there now.
Home Sweet Home it's called and Damir, the owner and his staff are awesome.

A really great place to stay in Belgrade. It is a posh 4 bed room apartment in the heart of Belgrade and in each bedroom they have put some bunks. It takes only 18 people, so it is an amazing hostel. Better than any hotel for miles around...at 5 Euros a night plus the Euro Govt visitor tax.

It will be great to mix with interesting and excited travelers again, kids on the go from here to there.
I love them telling about their trips and have had so many ideas I've followed since first starting this journey in Jan 18th 2011.

So,..The 3 door shed is looking good to-day, Tuesday...well, I think it does!

After weeks of on and off rain, the work begins again on the 3 door shed. Tuesday 14th June 2016

Will do a bit of blog each day and post pics of the transformation as for me it is very exciting to change from this....

End April 2016, before the repairs began...

Sort of looks romantic in its own way...the poor neighbours! This was their constant view...

So, after the guys took off the roofand knocked down the remaining bits of wall, this was my wild west wall remains!

Footings down and the rebuild begins...

Ewwwhhh, well at least the 2 inside divider walls are intact! This should be before the one above...oops!

Lovin' it! Up she goes...Hahaha, recycling to the nnnth! The aim of this place is to show how resourceful Hungarians/Aussies are!

Completed...one boxed up 3 door shed, about to become a workshop with 2 rooms instead of 3 rooms.!

So excited...the reconstruct begins after weeks of crazy weather...similar to what we had in Australia in 1988, 1989 and 1990....Finally, the entire 960 people in the village will have something nice to look at again!

Went to Eger on Wed to check out the tour areas and this is what it was on Wed when we left at 9am...

This is what it was when we returned! Now the guys do the backside with battens today, Thursday and tomorrow., Friday..the roof tiles go back on!

Getting there...

Then I go to Serbia for a week now, not 2 weeks as previously told. The dentist has fast tracked me to get it all done in 5 working days! Yahoo!

When I come back, on the 26th June, the guys will knock out one of the 2 dividing walls inside the shed, put in the floors, make a real door in the right door hole, render the end mud wall, fix the extra width gap in ceiling space and then, later on, render the out and insides to make it look nice.
The back wall will be rendered when the big room is built, so it can all be done in one hit.

Just went out to check the angles of the pitch on the roof...which originally was about 80 degrees, but only noticed now that they have made the new one only 100 degrees , which is obtuse, not an acute angle to the 90 degree point.
Drat them.
Hopeless.
I kept the 2 old angles for them to use, which were perfectly OK...but, "naaah Mairey, nemm, neemmm, shork prob-lem, faa(wood) nem OK"

I'd make them pull it all down and fix it back correctly, at their own expense if I was a better foreman, but as it is the end shed...and this is a test drive for the next 2 main building renos, I can let it go.

It does alter the height of the new big room to be though... by about a foot or so at the apex...
But, I'll cope with that challenge when we get to that point.
Will really let them know I must have the angles correct in future...

Happy with this so far...

The garden is coming along, but no pumpkins, melons, cucumbers or zucchini came up! Dud year this one for all of those crawley plants.

Lookin' good...

Not one seed shot, except one lone zucchini seed. We dug up the mounds when we laid the gutter drainage pipes...the day after planting the seeds...dohhh...and buried the seeds under mountains of dirt and one little plant popped up a few weeks ago.

White mulberries...

But I have white mulberries???, never heard of them before and heaps of tomatoes, which seem to thrive here.

The fence extension quickly became integrated with the rest of the house garden area & looks as tho' it's been there for eons!

No marigolds or alysium either...really weird, but I did buy some petunia and mixed flower plants last week and the rain has shot them along.

Lookee what I found at the hardware shop yesterday! It was behind a door, not for sale, slightly the worse, paint wise, for wear, but perfect for my goals. I asked the girl could I buy it...she laughed...I said, really I do want it, must have it...(as she did not speak English, lots of sign language happened) and she asked her boss and he said yes! $25 later, I was one very happy chappy! Saved me heaps of implementing other things to make an amazing arch like this for the big outdoor deck!
Awesome huh?
Puuuurrrfffffecccc.

Next, the curved stairs/steps will be done and lastly, the right side of the deck after the guys complete the exterior of the summer kitchen next month. Do you like the rubble edged gardens? Have to put more soil in yet, but I can't believe I did it all on one cool overcast, non rainy, but drizzly, day this week.

Had to dig under so much undergrowth and find the gardens, then pull out all the creeping vines that must grow about 6 inches a day...honestly. The Amazon jungles have nothing on this place!

Also, have to find someone to come and feed dog every day I'm away too...which is a nuisance...
Am just weighing up the value of keeping Dog and going through all the dog sitting dramas, as opposed to just going whenever I want without all the stress of arranging dog watchers etc.

Stop press...The Mexican family has just contacted me to ask if they can come back as their plans did not work out well in Maria's home in Split, in Croatia, with the little girl.

She becomes hyperactive with food colours etc and the mother's sister took power over Maria and gave the child sweets etc which ends up in screaming matches against discipline...

Anyways, we had some episodes here and I quickly got them sorted out with eating real food, not junk, rubbish and poisons and the kid was a delight the last week here...saying "thank-you, sorry for my bad behaviour" etc - which she had never said in her entire life.

She said this by herself when she felt boundaries enforced and felt secure. Her Mum kept shaking her head, saying, what is going on? She is saying sorry! I never hear this before...where she get it from?
The child is very clever and amazed me too with her actions(non junked ones, that was). She is a genius child indeed. She only speaks Polish, but understood other languages somehow.

So now, the story evolves!

Bring on a live in caretaker ASAP!
Any takers?
Accommodation, electricity, groceries for one person, milk, bread, wifi, water, garbage, mower fuel, all supplied, in exchange for mowing the property twice a week, feeding and talking to dog, weeding, watering and maintaining the gardens and property.

Hahaha...I may have some takers before this even hits the street today!

Cheers for now...will do the Eger blog in the morning before I go...
Mary
xxx
PS...the Volunteers can't come now as they have no money to get here.
Shame.