Saturday, 12th March 2011
Posted by Geoff on 12 Mar 2011 at 06:51 pm | Tagged as: Other
Geoff writes: rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain ….. you get the idea. Wayne and Mick left this afternoon. We’ve had a great time, ending last night with dinner with Debi at our local bar, having the traditional Catalan meal of calçots – followed by a meat course, desert, bread and lots of wine, all for 20 euros each. Great value!
Today, we had hoped to get a last day flying before going to the airport, but no chance. The forecast proved all too accurate, and it has been raining continuously since the middle of the night. The only good thing is that this means a lot of new snow in the mountains. We decided to have a look around Girona, but in the end that meant wandering round an amazing toyshop, then coffee, then the airport.
The forecast is a little better for tomorrow, then another three days of bad weather. Lucky they aren’t arriving today, rather than leaving – though the people on the incoming flight will get a shock, when they deplane in not so sunny Spain.
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Cracking day at the Mynd. Well at least it was for some – I left just as it started to calm down for others to launch. I had at least 7Kg of water ballast which did the trick and I got past Wentnor on the north side. Had to race back to get home for tea, so cut short my southerly triangle point and it fell below the 15Km minimum for national league, but has squeezed into the LMSC league. Funny being nearly two miles out in front, not having too much difficulty penetrating, yet no-one else flying as it was blown out on launch. No major evidence of wave as low pressure, but some sailplanes were higher than I, so there must have been some about. DaveJH, Mark L and Martin had all had to land due to cold hands – I was fine. The sailplanes of which there were many did a great job of marking the house thermals which were pumping regularly in the blue sky. They were coming out of the valley to the west of Wentnor like clockwork – yet to the south I never found anything on the way to black knoll. The ground is maybe too flat and windswept and wasn’t heating like up in the sheltered valley. See you both soon. Graeme’s back by the way.
Dave, was this on Saturday? I thought you all flew at the Mynd on Sunday?
Yes it was Sunday – sorry I hadn’t looked at the date on your posting. By the looks of other’s posting I missed some good flying later, which is a shame for me as if I’d been able to hang around down at the south end I might have been able to extend my flight at that end. Triangles are so hard but it is good having no long distance retrieves involved.