The last few weeks have seen too many broken and lost pilots :(
I can't find words to say how I feel about it all, so for now I won't.

I'm now in Bayramoren, Turkey for the next World Cup. Its been tough already.
Last year I arrived in Istanbul with Mr.X and was metophorically rowed across the Bosphorus by an Ottoman Warrior. Xavier didn't realise/didn't care that the Ottoman army didn't use water for transport, nor was he perturbed by the fact we were on the ferry ... in his inimitiable style we crossed the river with him mimicing rowing whilst 'discussing' the fascist dictatorship v the democracy.

1 year on the FAI v PWCA arguement may become more relevant and now the emotional black-hole left by the most aggravating yet loveable rogue I have ever known gets ever bigger as we face a World Cup without Xavier.

So ... "stiff upper-lip" and all that British malarkey and back to work trying to squeeze 130 pilots into a third of that number of beds here at the 'Thermal' Hotel - great name for a paragliding competition HQ!
This could be a very 'cosy' World Cup here in the raging heat of the Anatolyan Plains!

Hot 'n sunny!!