Thursday 24 July 2014

Official Practice, Day 3 (Steve)

Leszno Market Square

The airfield is turning from dust to mud (in the areas of much vehicle traffic anyway) as it has rained all day today. At least this means it will be easier to get the glider pickets into the ground as up until now it has been like concrete. So the morning was spent getting registration completed and the afternoon was some airfield relief for Lisa in the local Galeria shopping mall. Life's essentials, beer, food and clothes, are all cheap here (generally about 1/3 of what you would pay in NZ). A great example is our favourite beer, Tyskie. A four pack (4 x 0.5L cans, 5.5% alcohol) that you buy at the petrol station is 11 zloty, which equates to $1NZ per can!

The weather briefing said only a chance of flying in the afternoon tomorrow which will be the last chance to fly before the competition gets under way. My bug wipers don't work yet, so may be tomorrow I can get these going before the comp starts.

Saturday 6pm is the opening ceremony in the town market square. I'm looking forward to seeing what this will be all about.

Checking out the market square


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