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Friday, 2nd April 2010
Posted by Judith on 03 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Other
We woke up stiff from sleeping upright and a little cold, and headed for the town of Montreuil-Sur-Mer, a walled town near Boulogne. After a big breakfast we had a stroll around, but our very outdated Rough Guide had the wrong times for the opening of the Abbey, so we couldn’t go into the museum. We settled for a wander round the ramparts and the old town.
We got to Calais in time to catch an earlier ferry and thanked our lucky stars that we were on P&O. SeaFrance were on strike and chaos was starting to slowly set in while cars backed up and people tried to re-book with other companies. Back on British soil, the disorder at the French port seemed like nothing at all. Dover was one big traffic jam, Operation Stack was in force and they were using the A20 as a lorry park, while they diverted the normal traffic off the motorway to god knows where. When we booked the ferry, we picked a random date, and we hadn’t realised it was Good Friday. We’ll check better next year!
We got to the Cotwolds and Geoff’s family some hours later.
Monday, 12th October 2009
Posted by Judith on 15 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Other
We got up early to pack the van, clean the house and leave. The sun was shining and looked like an epic day for triangle flying. We much prefer it if it rains when we set off to Spain!
We got to the Cotswolds late afternoon and spent the evening with Geoff’s family.
We’ve removed the live twitter feed from the right hand panel, since there’s no more comps, and we can’t update on UK flying conditions. We’ll bring it back in spring when we return to the UK.
Tuesday, 18th August 2009
Posted by Geoff on 18 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Other
Geoff writes: today we received the extremely sad news that the second person involved in the mid-air last week, Dennis Wray, died last night. This was a real shock to us, as we were under the impression that, though badly injured, it was nothing life threatening. We did not know Dennis, or Steve, but any death in the flying community is felt by everyone – even more so when it takes place on our local sites. Our thoughts are with Dennis’ wife, Carole, and his family, and his friends in the Dales Hang Giding and Paragliding Club.