It's been a busy couple of days since arriving in Europe. We had to make our way to Brussels to pick up car and glider. The car turned out to be a brand new Volvo, only 33km on the clock when we collected it. An ideal way to run it in we thought, plonking a glider trailer on the back and hauling it to Spain and back. Once we got the car it was off to Saint Hubert airfield for the last day of the Belgian Nationals.
St Hubert is the main centre for gliding in Belgium. Somewhat off-putting is this derelict Blanik on blocks at the entrance. But the rest of the airfield
is nice; big, flat and green.
Overnighting in St Hubert was a treat. Mark and I wandered into town for a beer and a feed and come across this nice little bar.
We thought OK, that's reasonable, Eur 2.75 for a beer, lets go.
Yeah... no. That sign reads 275 different beers on the menu. For Morgy this is a challenge. But we only had one night so we had to be a bit selective.
Today we got to meet Francois, owner of the 29 I will be flying in Spain. Francois was flying the glider in the Belgian Nats. Fortunately for us, and I guess unfortunately for Francois (who was running third in the comp) at around midday it started raining heavily, the task was called off and we were able to de-rig the glider and take it away a few hours earlier than anticipated.
The glider looks good, very neat and tidy and instrumented almost identically to TF at home.
So, we have managed to beetle off a few hundred Kms to the south, pulling up stumps at a place called Langres, an old walled town which looks like it would attract a few gazillion tourists.
So far everything has gone really smoothly. We should get to Cerdanya by tomorrow evening, a day ahead of schedule.
Graham
25 May
St Hubert is the main centre for gliding in Belgium. Somewhat off-putting is this derelict Blanik on blocks at the entrance. But the rest of the airfield
Overnighting in St Hubert was a treat. Mark and I wandered into town for a beer and a feed and come across this nice little bar.
Yeah... no. That sign reads 275 different beers on the menu. For Morgy this is a challenge. But we only had one night so we had to be a bit selective.
Today we got to meet Francois, owner of the 29 I will be flying in Spain. Francois was flying the glider in the Belgian Nats. Fortunately for us, and I guess unfortunately for Francois (who was running third in the comp) at around midday it started raining heavily, the task was called off and we were able to de-rig the glider and take it away a few hours earlier than anticipated.
The glider looks good, very neat and tidy and instrumented almost identically to TF at home.
So, we have managed to beetle off a few hundred Kms to the south, pulling up stumps at a place called Langres, an old walled town which looks like it would attract a few gazillion tourists.
So far everything has gone really smoothly. We should get to Cerdanya by tomorrow evening, a day ahead of schedule.
Graham
25 May
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