From Singapore to Szeged, Hungary

This is our journey so far:

Friday, Saturday and Sunday

We finally arrived in Singapore Friday night and found our connecting flight had left without us, Qantas put us in a hotel for 20 hours until the next flight . After arriving in Warsaw via London we had lost a day and rushed out to Lezno the next day to pick up the glider

Monday 20^th July

Finally got to Lezno and de rigged the glider, it is an interesting place, the hangar is full of Polish gliders:

3 Puchaz, 3 Bocians, 4 Pirat, 6 Jantar of various types, 3 Juniors, and 3 Foka’s. The only non Polish glider is the ASW27 which we are hiring.

There is a hotel and bar and restaurant , a full time operation which has now been purchased by Thomas Gostner and is being redeveloped.

Tuesday 21^st July

Set course for Szeged with the glider, Ziggy decided he had to see his parents in Krackow, so we dropped him on the way. It took 12 hours of mostly difficult and slow driving to reach Szeged covering 4 countries. The Polish are the worst drivers in the world and try to kill you at every opportunity.

Wednesday 22^nd

Greg, who came via Cathay and Hong Kong left later than us but arrived in Szeged before us. We met up with him for breakfast, then rigged the glider and changed the instruments and did all the jobs required to get organised for a comp.

It was very hot but not much in the way of soaring, last week Mak (from Narromine) did a 1000km from here.

First comp day is Sunday.