Yesterday was not a great day and Pete only managed to get a little way into the mountains as the conditions deteriorated. He was also concerned by the poor visibility, only 15 - 20 km at best. Talking to the locals it seems that this is normal when there is a high pressure over the area.
Today Pete has company in the sky, a Discus 2T. The pilot flew at Corowa (in Australia) earlier this year.
Earlier today we needed a small electrical component for the glider, the sort of thing you would normally pick up at Dick Smiths. In the first Auto place we tried they shook their heads no, no when I showed them what I wanted. "Kde?" I asked in my best Slovakian (where), after a long discussion between the shopkeeper and a customer the customer told me he would drive me to the correct shop (shades of the lead saga in Rieti). The driver spoke German and I have a Bissen (little), so we 'chatted' about floods and his son whilst Pete followed us in the bus. He took us to an unlikely looking shop which had exactly what we needed. Nice people the Slovakians.
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