Judith's blog

There is always a period of adjustment when we change countries. We need to do what the Spanish call ‘change the chip’. One of the things which always takes a few days is to re-learn to interpret the forecast. In the UK it’s invariably worse than the forecast. Here it is almost always better. Even on a bad forecast, there is some part of the day, or some place where it is flyable. The same happened today. The forecast was for rain. There were a few spits this morning, but then the sun came out and it was lovely. I checked the 11.30am update and they were forecasting strong winds at the coast (perfect for Santa Brigida), but big cloud development in that area.

Geoff is still not 100%, and I decided too late that I wanted to go out and fly. By the time we got to Santa Brigida the clouds were already looking ominous and were causing gusts on launch. Had we been there an hour or two before it would have been a nice day. We read our books for a while, had a beer and a snooze. As we set off down the hill we could hear claps of thunder and see sheets of rain in the distance.

At home,  it was a cloudless sky. What a difference 14 miles can make!

See photos of today.

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