The forecast promised to be promising, but we woke to grey skies and the tops of the hills around were all clouded in. Hmmm… so much for the plan to go to El Mont today. Wayne went for a walk and explore round the village and by the time he came back the cloud was breaking up and we thought we could get in a cheeky flight before taking him to the airport.

There was only time to go to Santa Brigida, and the wind was on and there was lots and lots of sun. Geoff went off first and stayed up. Wayne was close behind and although the thermals were broken they stayed up. One of us had to stay with the car, because if all of us had gone down Wayne would have missed his flight, so Geoff top landed to give me a go. The thermals were better formed when I was flying and there were cumulus popping all over the place. An hour later the conditions would be fantastic. Thanks to Ryanair changing Wayne’s flight times we were never to find out how good the day would become. Geoff took him to the airport and I headed home to catch up on urgent work. It was a difficult task driving away from a flying site under the best sky we have had since arriving here.

This is the worst luck Wayne has had with the weather in all the times he has come to visit and predictably, the weather is going to get really good from tomorrow.

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