Still sunny :)
Another fab day here after a dark, dismal start. I had no enthusiasm for crawling out of my sleeping bag into the fog but Merlin wasn't having any of it and demanded to be let out for a morning walk far earlier than I wanted.
We finally got to see through the cloud at launch to the valley at 14:00 and then flew until dark under lots of wispy little clouds and a few bigger, blacker beasties clinging to the high parts of the ridge.
The sky was stuffed full of thermals though many of them were pretty spikey - there is a theme emerging here! After strong cores to launch height the climbs disappered into small bullets firing in all directions and trying to take the glider with them, so lots of up, more than enough down and some pretty frisky side-to-side stuff too. Its really good fun though to be able to creep along very close to the rocks and into the scary gulleys without fear of imminent disaster.
The invasion by the French has begun - this week is the French school holidays - lets hope they leave the dodgy French weather on the other side of the Pyrenees. During dinner with some French pilots I learnt of the flying saucers that supposedly pass through the valley on occasion - though judging from the source of the rumour I suspect a quantity of vino tinto was involved :D