My folks came back from a week’s holiday in rainy and grey Ireland visiting my sister and niece, so I picked them up from the airport and then Geoff and I rushed off to Palau-Saverdera to fly. We met up with Nani, Enric, Oriol and Jesus and headed up to Sant Pere de Rodes. It looked very, very stable and the inversion was solid. It was so hazy you could barely see the sea. No one was really optimistic until we got to launch and there was wind. A soaring flight at least!

Mathias came bounding up behind us and dashed off (he’d come for a lunch break flight) and he maintained, so we all followed him off. I briefly got above launch, but didn’t head along the ridge with Jesus, who landed near Roses. We boated about for a little while, getting lower, but I found a weak house thermal over the church and worked it in a lazy fashion, gaining some height, losing it again and then thermalling up to launch height again. Most of us ended in the bottom landing, where, for some inexplicable reason, there is now a giant shopping trolley (but no river for it to be abandoned in).

It was such a hot and sunny day that we were keen to get to the beach and try the inflatable canoe Wayne has lent us, but the sea was a little choppy, so I just went swimming. Then sunbathing with beer. Life’s good…

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