Wine-tasting in Svätý Jur, Thursday May 17th, 2012

On Thursday evening, my nephew and his wife came by my hotel sometime between 6 and 7 in the evening. The plan was to go to Svätý Jur to visit A.'s parents. There had been a glitch, however. That afternoon Slovakia was playing Canada in the hockey championship and Slovakia was losing, the score was 3 to 2 for Canada. When my niece was making the arrangements, her father asked "And where is she from?" "Canada" she said. "I don't know" he said, shaking his head, "I don't think she can come."

In the meantime, my nephew had been working on a plumbing job which turned out to be much bigger than he anticipated. As soon as he fixed what he thought was causing the problem, he discovered a much bigger problem that was causing the first. R. and A. had planned to pick me up at 3 but arrived at least three hours later. By then Slovakia had won the game and my niece's father magnanimously declared "Yes, yes, she can come!"

For my nephew and his wife's two grown sons, I had brought several hockey jerseys and T-shirts, each with a big logo of Canada across the front. As I was showing these to my nephew, we got the idea that each of us would wear one to Svätý Jur. So we donned our Canada shirts and off we went. A.'s father got a good chuckle out of our outfits when we arrived.

After stopping at the house and having some cake and tea, we went wine-tasting. I tried each of the 10 or so different wines, from white to red and an ice wine in between. They were all excellent. I didn't have a headache the following morning, which speaks to the quality of the wine here. Afterwards, we strolled through the beautiful town and saw the church where the "kids" got married. All in all, an enjoyable evening.