Opening Ceremony

The so-called solemn opening ceremony of the Universal Congress of Esperanto. Somehow I got in even though I haven't signed up for the UK.

One particularly boring speech which was impossible to follow. A couple of ok speeches and some boring piano music. The final bit was a greeting, one by one from a representative of each country present. That would have been ok but some of them took the opportunity to make a mini speech.

I snuck in to listen to one of the lectures later on and finished off going off drinking with the Germans. Somehow, somewhere, I ended up paying 15 dollars for a beer. No, it wasn't a round, it was one beer. Insanity!