LEZJE, IRISH FAMILY GROUP FOR WEDDING!!.

9 JUNE 2012 LEZJE, IRISH GROUP FOR WEDDING!! A fairly quiet, busy week when life has been complicated by our everlasting road repairs! Access to our house has been more than difficult at times and we are very hopeful all will be finished soon! The road is completed with 'cutstone', quarried out in the Balkans and, very specialized artisans are occupied matching the stones! Lalini went to Lezje to a meeting of Religious yesterday. It is six hours journey, each way, from here. I attended that same meeting organised two years ago, when, to my amazement, every word of input was in Italian. I passed on attending again! Yesterday, Ana, my teacher, told me they have Irish guests at the Life Gallery Hotel - our only Five Star Hotel in Korce. She had told them I was here and they said they would like us to meet. I called to the hotel last evening and met more than 20 persons!! At first, I met a man from Belfast - he had two aunts in the Mercy Sisters and both lived in Sussex Place. I told him that we bought that house and that I too had lived in Sussex Place!! A number of the others, including his wife, had been born in Clare Street, Limerick!! They had the real Limerick accents, even though most of them live in England. All are here for a wedding and I hope to go along to the Orthodox Cathedral to be there later this afternoon. Had a lovely chat with Sr. Kevin, Belfast, though I was a little late for her feast. I am always amazed that St. Kevin does not make it into the calendar - we have so much about him in Glendalough! All the best for the weekend - every blessing!