Horses needed to be fed, stalls needed mucked out, hooves needed cleaning, shoes needed tending, and general chores didn't stop.I walked in and noses ...immediately popped over stall doors to say hello, I patted a few as I walked down the main aisle."Morning Nick." Hello Kat. How's it going?" Nick was pushing a wheel borrow full of manure by."Just fine, Billy in the office?" Nope. Out back."I did and about face and headed back the way I'd come. Turning the corner of the building I spotted him on. And Marcus appeared to be right about the zealots that lived here. The man preaching in the market place was not alone. I saw more like him in each of the villages we passed. In one of them a shouting match over some obscure religious point ended in a fist fight. One of the riders who had joined us as an escort recounted a battle several days before that had resulted in half a dozen dead and more than 30 injured. He assured us that that was not an isolated case. Incidents like that happened. The third saw the scene and took him into a woods, followed by us and four other colleagues.They all spoke a foreign language, Romanian I think, but two words came back often, bitch and whore.I stayed a few meters helpless, and Jordi was going to negotiate with the five men.He came back with 600 euros and a big smile.You're going to have fun, and she especially, he left in a great burst of laughter.The 5 men surrounded my wife they were rather fat and not very fresh, the first came out his tail. For a long time she didnt answer. I waited and knocked it again. After sometime she came out in half sleep and was too surprised to see me. She was wearing her nightgown. I told her that i was there to give her company and connected my laptop :) she told me that she was yet to take bath. I told her that lets save water by bathing together. She laughed and told me that i looked pretty fresh and doesnt need bath. Actually i had taken bath in the morning :). I told her that it was good for health.