Geoff writes: took Judith to Girona airport at 5.00am so she could fly to Malta to spend it with her extended family, who were flying in from Israel, Ireland, Spain and England. (No worries about carbon footprints here). Later on, went flying. The forecast is much better now, and getting warm again, with 18C forecast today. Took Nils and Sasha to fly their hang gliders at Puig d’Afrou. Nil wind all the way, until we arrived there, when it was howling. Backtracked 5k to Santa Brigida, where it was nil wind again. Odd place, this.

Stood on top for a while, with maybe 15 or so other pilots, who had originally gone to Puig d’Afrou. When the sun was out – though it there was high cloud some of the time – it was T shirt weather. Very light wind, then coming consistently over the back, so they all left to go for lunch. About ten minutes after they left, it came on the hill, and I launched about 15 minutes after that, but slowly went down to join Nils and Sasha in the landing field where they were checking out their gliders. Got a ride back up immediately with Joan, and the wind had picked up – basically, it was nicely flyable for the next couple of hours, easy to stay up. None of the luncheon people came back but 3 or 4 others did, and we all flew. A great day, not an epic Santa Brigida day, but a lot of fun, and proof again that you can never write off the site.

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