Great flying day!

Blue skies all day today, a light south-easterly wind and Malbec looked great.

Only one problem. The airfield was still much too soggy and wet to even think about using it for its intended purpose so the aircraft stayed in the hangar and the barn where they’ve been for the past few months.

And that’s where they’ll be staying for a good while yet. So only one thing to do on such a day as today – go for a bike ride!

Today was warmer than before so it was a good time to investigate the road that I discovered last time that I think goes to Fanlac. So having previously charged up my bike’s battery, off I went with the idea of finding out where it ended up.

I was out for about an hour including the time it took to stop to take a couple of shots using my phone, which is again why they are of such poor quality.

I didn’t get to the end of the road so I still don’t know for sure where it goes to. The reason was that as I got towards what I think is its end, it began to drop very sharply into the valley, curling back on itself the way the mountain roads do in somewhere like Switzerland. After descending quite a way, possibly a couple of hundred metres or so, I was worried that at this stage in my recovery I might be overstretching myself climbing back up again, so turned around.

In fact, although it did require a bit of effort to do so, riding back up again with the electrical assistance wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, so going the whole way will be something for the future. But as the road went from dirt in open country to hard surfaced with houses I think that my next foray will be in the Kia. Then I’ll know exactly what to expect when I do it on my bike 🙂