![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/271209.jpg\" "\\"Oriol")
Christmas was nice with the family but everyone departed yesterday, when it rained solidly most of the day. Today was a gorgeous sunny day and it might be the nicest day for a while, so I went out to make the most of it before picking Geoff up from Girona airport.<\/p>\n
The forecast said north at the coast, but south in the interior. Then the 11.30am forecast changed to south everywhere. I got to Santa Brigida<\/a> and it was NW. Some people were already there and so I drove up with Joan to have chat and distribute some of the leftover Christmas biscuits. John, Pepe and a pilot from Ager<\/a> were already there. We all decided it would be worth the wait to see if the sun would bring the wind on, and after 20 minutes it started to switch. I didn’t want to launch first as it was still very west and I didn’t want to risk going down, what with an appointment at the airport. The guy from Ager<\/a> went first, but he ignored a lot of the lift over the monastery and made up for it with some too-close-for-comfort scratching. At one point he brushed the trees by the monastery with his wing!<\/p>\n Given that you could see there was lift around, I went off second and got a lovely little thermal to 450′ ATO. I flew for a while and then top landed when it got more scratchy, to let others have more room. As I packed up to go to the airport it turned NW again, so only a short window of about an hour to be had in the day. Still, nice to be in the air again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christmas was nice with the family but everyone departed yesterday, when it rained solidly most of the day. Today was a gorgeous sunny day and it might be the nicest day for a while, so I went out to make the most of it before picking Geoff up from Girona airport. The forecast said north […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}