Friday, April 13, 2007

Paragliding - Easter weekend, 2007


Diana and I spent Easter in Devon and on the way down we stopped for some flying at Westbury. It was a beautiful day but the winds were light. The flying was very 'scratchy' and I probably managed about an hour of flying in total that day (Easter Friday). Met up with Jim Mallinson, Mark Russell and Eddie Colfox who were all flying 'hot ships'! I was flying my old Gradient Topas (1-2 glider).

On the way home we stopped in Dorset to see the parents-in-law. After lunch, I dragged Di up to Batcombe where the skies looked epic. Very light winds again, however, and persevered ending up with four top-to-bottoms. Mark Russell was there with his tandem and so was Tony Farthing from the Devon and Somerset Condors. I returned home dreaming of flying more this summer!
On May 11th Olu Deniz bekons in Turkey where we shall be flying with friends for a whole week! Bring it on...

1 comment:

Stefan said...

Hi Tom!

I'm back from South America. I did expect Scandinavia be a bit closer to spring than to winter at this time but noooo...

How are you guys? I've been looking for you online lately!

Hope you talk with you soon!

Stef