Tandem launching at Millau.After only 4 hours sleep in the front seats of the van we arrived in Millau with a view of flying. We have a somewhat poor history of flying there, because for the past 7 years we have been driving through Millau twice a year, but only managed to fly there for the first time last year and that was only because we refused to leave the UK until there was a passable forecast there. We were rewarded with two days of nice flying then. It was not a feat we would repeat this year.

The forecast we looked at on Saturday was was good for Monday. We stopped to buy some lunch in the supermarket and saw people launching, so we headed up, thinking they were doing top-to-bottoms because it was so light. Wrong. On top it was howling and people were flying out to get away from the ridge. Within 15 minutes of us being on top it was completely blown out, although a tandem launched and one brave soul followed him. He flew out and the spiralled down pretty much straight away. Everyone else drove down.

Geoff didn’t have the energy to rig the hang glider, so we decided to do some tourist stuff. We drove to the Cirque de Navacelles, a huge crater with a stunning little village in the bottom. A walk and snooze in the sun later, we headed home to Spain.

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