Geoff writes: trying not to do too much this weekend, since the conference proper starts next week – though even the reading week has already been pretty busy, with lots of live events, in Second Life mostly.

We decided to to to Belmunt (Torello). Not somewhere we go that often because it used to be a really long, slow drive over the local mountains. But then the Catalans very kindly built a tunnel for us, and it cut the drive to about 30 minutes, rather than double or triple that. So we decided to try it out – we have flown there before, but not that often. We got there, and as we got out of the car some local pilots turned up. We went to the launch, and we thought it was windy and, possibly, rotory. Some of the locals thought that too, some didn’t. So we made some phone calls, checked out the wind near Amer, and quickly drove back to Santa Brigida – where it was absolutely fine.

Not epic, but pleasant flying, and some more people turned up, having had a top to bottom at Puig d’Afrou.

Joan turned up too – he’d had an accident in summer where his foot was more or less parted from his leg, by a very sharp rock when he misjudged his landing. He’d managed to phone the ambulance, and sent them a picture of the foot – some inches away from his leg – to encourage them to get a move on. Incredibly, they stitched it all back together, and he is walking already, and will probably recover more or less fully. It was good to see him.

In spite of not flying today at Belmunt, we will go there more often. It’s a nice site, and a pleasant change from Santa Brigida. Though of course, it won’t work as well in winter.

See photos of today.

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