Corrected; thanks!
Nice pictures, just for accuracy your photo of Biarritz is in fact Saint Jean de Luz, Biarritz is a few miles up the coast. This harbour is SW point for Biarritz and E point for San Sebastian.
Simon
6 months and what seems a lifetime later, here is the trip report
http://peter2000.co.uk/aviation/burgos/
Any corrections appreciated, as always
Peter wrote:
Someone important, I guess..
Yes, indeed :-)
Carlos III (Charles III) was the King of Spain between 1759 and 1788
A video, truncated because I forgot to clear the SD card so it filled up
This is the Ile d’Aix, Peter, scene of a British naval victory in the Napoleonic wars, a car-free zone today.
Burgos cethedral, full frontal
El Arco de Santa Maria
The Pena Alta crest separating the Pais Vasco from La Rioja, Logrono in the distance
Simon
My final instalment of pics…
Final LEBG
A Commander 114 arriving
The catherdral
Everybody is out in the evenings, as usual in s. Europe
They like their meat
Very deep blue sky – this is ex-DSLR and not photoshopped
A view from the castle
Someone important, I guess..
A number of these statues around
Not sure what this symbolised
The river – lots of great scenic spots
The cathedral again
Inside the cathedral… various forms of christian suffering and torture depicted in accordance with standard practice
However, the cathedral was nothing like the one at Salamanca where you could go high up and get amazing views. This one was just a ground floor walkabout. Everything else was closed off.
Soup! We found an excellent restaurant (posted earlier) but there weren’t many around; mostly it was bars. Prices were also mostly very low, presumably due to virtually zero tourism into this part of Spain
Nice haze pics on the way back, FL090
The Pyrenees
San Sebastian
Near La Rochelle, I think
La Rochelle and Ile de Re
La Rochelle airport, with TJ’s SR22 down there somewhere, refuelling. I was the first to arrive and the only one who got fuel! I think after their 25-litre bucket marathon they didn’t want to do any more…
The N French coast
Nearly home
This was the first long trip with my older son, who really enjoyed it, taking masses of photos with his newly acquired Sony A7 and talking about fast cars
I have emailed everyone who turned up with a dropbox link with some pics – group pics and some other stuff. So if you didn’t get this, check your spambox and then let me know.
I often don’t connect the EuroGA nickname with the real person Especially if someone turns up who never posted on the forum.
I would have got home today only marginally; thankfully possible on runway 02
EGKA 011420Z 02010KT 4000 HZ BKN006 12/10 Q1022
Weird how such an apparently similar air mass can produce such different wx
The temperature inversions were spectacular too. I have just been editing the camera footage and from my comments on it I see it was 0C upon arrival to the plane, +8C at the runway holding point an hour later, and +18C minutes later, at something like FL60-80. That was in totally clear air too, over Spain. At FL090 it was +10C in SW France, reducing to +9C near the UK.
Just got back – a 4hr flight, calm winds mostly. Really weird temperatures: 0C at the airport and +18C at 9000ft, dropping to +10C over France.
@Loco turned up in his new TBM930. Sadly I didn’t see it because I was parked miles away, near the (broken) avgas pump, and most people left on Sunday morning. In fact I didn’t see anybody’s plane except TJ’s.
Not TBM_driver I suppose
No; the nearest that “Vanessa” ever got to a TBM was to take a photo of one Yes that was a crafty nickname because posters with a female identity get a lot more help on forums.
A few pics:
A view from the castle:
A number of these funny sculptures:
The river
This was the really good restaurant
The museum of humanity – very well done but in every detail a testament to a former astonishing ability to collect EU regional development grants
This morning’s departure
A really rugged part of Spain
San Sebastian and the runway – apologies for the terrible colours
The long beach of south western France
It was great to meet you all