Christmas was a nice family affair, with my sister, brother-in-law and nearly three year old niece and I spending it up at my parent’s house in Rupit.. Lovely sunny weather and we managed to go out for a walk everyday, although not too long ones, since everyone took it in turns to feel under the weather with a cold, and my sister is heavily pregnant.

Christmas day was great. We usually open our presents in turn, so it takes a long time, but everyone gets to see what everyone else got and you get to play with stuff before moving on to the next. So half-way through the presents we stopped to play the Elefun game, where we all had to run around catching butterflies which were being blown out of a plastic elephant’s trunk.

I got one of the best presents ever! My parents know that I love relief maps, so they checked on the Catalan Cartological Service web site and found that there are such maps available for La Garrotxa, the area we live in. I now have a 1:100 000 3D map of the area, with nearly all the flying sites on. I spent a happy afternoon looking at all the ridges, hills and bumps, planning flights and re-living previous XCs.

After rabbit for lunch we played daft games most of the day. Boxing Day had us walking along the cliff to Tavertet for a sumptous lunch at Faves Comptades (counted beans), before Geoff came back from the UK, to spend the evening with us.

And Johnny flew every day over Christmas. Two good days, one ok. It did look pretty good from where I was.

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