Geoff writes: I took Judith and the others to Birmingham airport this morning, to fly out to Slovenia for the comp. I was going to go on to the Malverns, but though it was a good sky, I thought it was probably too windy, so came home to do some work. A big mistake – looking at the League now, the longest flight from there so far is just over 70km, with some other smaller ones – so it obviously wasn’t blown out. Stupid really, I should just have gone.

Judith writes: Bumped into every pilot under the sun at the airport. I assumed that paying £40 each way for sports luggage meant that we could carry unlimited weight, but Cris and I learnt differently from the others. A major repack of my gear meant that half the pilots present were transporting some of my stuff. Cris ended up having to wear his sandals round his waist. A bit of fancy knee work propping up my glider on the check in belt had it down to 17.4kg. I shouldn’t have bothered re-packing!

We arrived in Trieste without incident and then travelled into the mountains and Slovenia. It’s a breathtakingly beautiful little country with mountains and picture postcard villages. Our accommodations is lovely too. We are on the top floor of one of the houses just on the outskirts of the town, with only a two minute walk to the bars and restaurants, but with the forest starting just up the road. I have my own little apartment, with the lads and kitchen adjacent. Lovely venison and crayfish dinner tonight.

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