UK Day 2

Another lecture in the morning. It was pretty interesting and the bloke giving the lecture spoke amazingly good and fluent Esperanto.

Spent some time on the lawn where a young Hungarian bloke was leading a group of Russians in singing Russian songs. It sounded superb. Better than those crappy Esperanto songs that usually sound like gospel songs.

The banquet and the ball were both in the evening; the banquet went so long that it was impossible to go to both. I'd heard that the banquet is usually pretty boring. In any case I was never going to fork out the 100 or so dollars that it cost to take part.

The ball was completely informal with no-one dressing up for it or anything. I popped in for a while intending to come back after something to eat but by the time I got back it was over.


Here's one of the churches that brings the tourists in droves. Yes, it is impressive; in fact all you can do is stand there and stare - it is breath-taking. Must have been even more impressive in the days when you could appreciate this and still afford to eat and drink in the vicinity.