NEWBOLD WOMEN’S GROUP
While our Leader Ruth was enjoying warmer weather on a cruise, the group welcomed Stuart Watkinson to our meeting in March. We always enjoy him talking us through pictures of his holidays. This time we started in Hungary, in Budapest, and made our way through Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the Danube. We were all moved by the Holocaust Memorial in Budapest – a haphazard line of boots and shoes in cast-iron, by the river, as if the Jews who had been ordered to take them off before being shot into the river had only just done so. The talk was very interesting, as Stuart’s photos and words brought home to us the conflicts in the Balkans up to quite recent times. We saw the vast contrast between the buildings (still showing the signs of shelling) of Vukovar, a Croatian town that suffered due to its position close to the Serbian border and Ceausescu’s Palace in Bucharest, Romania.
At our next meeting on 3 April John Grubb from the RNLI will talk about Flood Rescue. `
Beryl Malcolm