Another long day

Wow. Where to start... today has been a real mixture of emotions. After going for a run this morning Luuka and I were dropped at the Main road by the British head Coach, our journey back to the broken down car was to begin here. Only moments later we were approached by a Spanish Man and his dog, the man (Andreus) had a kayaking t-shirt on but did not speak much English...Andreus and his friend then took us all the way to Luuka’s broken down car. Last night Eurg(The British Coach) had very kindly used his French skills to converse with our mechanic and we had arranged to pick up the ‘fixed’ car today. However when we arrived with Andreus today we found no mechanic and a still very broken down car! I was so gutted...soooo gutted! So we decided to take our kayaks and gear back with Andreas to Seu, another 1hour 30min of driving! When we arrived back in La Seu Andreu very kindly offered us to stay in his place in town! We were bought in and sat down and had various dishes of cheese, chocolate, bread, fruit, carrots and custard presented to us!!Wow! We were a bit overwhelmed and in disbelief of how lucky we are right now and just how kind Andreu is. Although the last few weeks have been a bit stressful and not easy we have been amazed at how generous people can be. The British have been really helpful as well with words of encouragement and letting us borrow their boats on the flatwater (Thanks esp. To Lizzie, I used her kayak). So our situation here has not turned out too badly! We are staying with some friendly people in the middle of town, have our kayaks so will be able to join into one of the white water sessions of either Czech, Slovak, British or French. And the next plan of attack is to train here on the course for the next few days and then on Thursday we will fly back to Prague, this is where the other Kiwis will be too.
I am sitting here now and still can’t quite believe how well it all turned out for us. Although it is really unfortunate about the car it has still all worked out pretty well. I think we have come out of the situation with luck on our side! I definitely think that there are some people in the world that are really sooo nice and will go so far out of their way to help other people.