Tuesday 26.4.2011 – Rainy resting day

It started to rain during the night and the sky was gray in the morning. We were happy that organization made a decision of non-flying day immediately, instead of waiting for some hours. We heard about yesterday’s saftey issues, as there has been some hazardous flying. I think (and some of the team thinks as well) that on safety there is a big role of putting 150 gliders flying on weather when cloudbase is only 750 m QNH. I understood that cloudbase would be 600 m above the airfield. Remember that there are some mountains around us, not high, but high enough so that there isn’t much space between the tops and the cloudbase.

It started pouring rain during the briefing and so a group of Finns left to the factory tour to Prievidza and we could put our plan in to action with Mia. Right after briefing we went to Centro Nitra and then walked to Mlyny – both are shopping centers’ – and we found nice things that we were looking for. And we also tried some ice tea, my lesson was that don’t have green ice tea without sugar.

At 14:00 we had a date with the rest of the team and had a nice lunch in Hofferka, close to the Mlyny and Tesco. Then it was a time for a nap, which I really needed after yesterdays drinks and the pasta I had as a lunch.

At 19:00 it was again time to eat, we had dinner with Francois Jeremiasse (he is form Netherlands). We ate at the pizzeria we had seen during our walk in Nitra earlier. That was really nice Italian restaurant called Pizzeria Boccaccio, they all spoke English and were friendly, service was also efficient and decoration pretty nice.