We seem to have messed up the flying today… The forecast was not particularly brilliant for the coast (or so we thought) and although it said it would be light and SE in the centre of the day, it said the same for Santa Brigida. We were hoping to fly with Nicky today, not just to be able to say good-bye, but also to collect some glider bits from her. There was no wind when we left home, but wind started to be in evidence from Olot. As we drove past the turn off to the tunnel to Bellmunt, it was howling, so we thought there would be no chance there.

As we got to Santa Brigida it was gusty and west. As we waited for Nicky to arrive, we saw Roger, but he had some proper flying to do (Girona – Granada – Girona and then Girona – Rome – Girona), so he didn’t stick around. The wind then turned NW.

We had a nice chat and sun bathe, but then Nicky had to go home to prepare for her trip to Brazil and the PWC. We headed into Amer, where there was a meeting of legionnaires. They came from all over Catalunya to compete. The criteria included dress, synchronisation, choreography, etc. There were hundreds of them, with drummers, standard bearers, little legionnaire mascots, etc. We only stayed for four groups, but the Mataro group, for example, had 80 members. The second group included what appeared to be vestal virgins, which Geoff got very excited about, until he realised they were boys.

And the flying news is that they had nice flying at Sant Pere de Rodes and Bellmunt was flyable until 3pm. Ho hum.

Geoff writes: I really like Roman stuff, and a few days ago we’d seen that there was this big festival in Amer. I thought it would be on the lines of battle re-enactments, or displays of armour, or something like that, i.e. something vaguely historical  – but what it turned out to be was a lot of marching bands, who just happened to dress up in Roman outfits. Still, some of the outfits were very nice. To be fair, we did miss some of the other events, so probably there was more of a historical context to those.

See photos of today.

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