• Day 2 - Swansea to Carlise

    Today was an arse-breaking day of 251 miles over more than 5 hours of flying. Left Swansea 1135 and took the coastal route all around Wales. Passed Aberporth, flew past some stunning scenery and landed at Caernarfon at 1359. That’s an interesting place to land at with the approach for runway 26 over a caravan park. Had lunch, refuelled (a long long walk from pumps, to office to find refuelling guy, back to refuel, then back to pay at office and back to ‘plane) and departed just after 5pm.
  • Day 1 - Kemble to Swansea via Devon/Cornwall

    Visibility even worse than yesterday - barely 3 or 4 km. Decided not to go all the way down to Land End and opted for a gentle jaunt for some sightseeing. Departed Kemble 1058 after receiving bollocking for not following appropriate procedure which included stopping the ‘other’ side of a holding point. Oops. Routed via Charmy Down then Frome (Somerset) were Bob’s father has a farm, so plenty of circling overhead, waving etc and dropped into Eaglescott for some fuel.