Return of the two headed beast

The girls are doing an excellent job keeping us all fed and clean and after brekky we drive a fully laden Lill Suzy up the mountain to take off.Nicky still a little low in airtime decides to stay grounded with Kate, Joe and Nat decide to fly the tandem.I decide to fly my new UP Summit and Adam as reliable as ever rolls a joint before joining us in the air.The Summit is a fantastic glider turning beautifully and to date hast lost a thermal yet...Joe and Nat have a fun if not epic flight on the tandem after Joe gets used to its huge momentum on launch. Travelling at night is definitely the way forward as we waste no flying time,have the roads to ourselves and obviously stopping for a sandwich and a bit of kip is no problem.The take off at Luchon in the northern Pyrenees is a large steep grassy slope at around 1500meters above the landing which is actually a light airfield the paragliders share with sailplanes cesners and the like.As the rules of the air go we as paragliders have right of way but having a twin engine turbo prop plane in your flight path will not suite everyone Im sure even though the landing field is huge.Conditions are fair and we all have reasonable flights over an hour long.Luchon is however a fairly narrow mountain valley and as such is subject to quite high valley winds on a daily basis rendering many afternoons unlandable without some difficulty if not unflyable.Nicky leaves on the train for Tolouse that evening to catch her flight back to Blighty and the rest of us decide to head over the Pyrenees that night for Casteon De Sos on the Spanish side where the valleys are huge and endless.There is massive cross country potential there with many world paraglider championship rounds held in the past.We load up the Skylark with water and beer and set off that evening along the winding mountain roads with Lill Suzy in tow and Adam and Kate following in their hire car.We cross into Spain after an hour or so and bid farewell to the French roads and their authorised highwaymen.The drive is only a couple of hours and we arrive with a fair amount of the evening left to get settled into the well equipped and very reasonably priced campsite which is again next to the landing field.