Great first day / The weather for the following week looks tricky... I bought maps for Germany, western Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Austria. I will go wherever the weather window tries to hide :-) ... for the next days Czech and Slovakia seem to fit. Hence I decided to go to Vrchlabi.
OLC-Flight-Route
... but first packing needed to be done....

Our new sting is towing at Riesa Canitz airport, piloted by Wolfgang

Ready!!!

my heart beats for "traveling by glider"


22km into that direction lies Vrchlabi... but how to get there?

.. finally at the mountains...

... after two hours I arrived in Vrchlabi... very easy with 35km/h tail wind... weather was still good ... so here is the cloud street against the wind... 50km with no circle.... but got washed down at the end... so had to find a way to cross the Riesengebirge for the second time

home for the first night: Vrchlabi airport



Very friendly.... it feels like being home very quickly :-)

In the restaurant next to the flight school where I will sleep, there a group from the Netherlands is playing "Always look on the bright side of life" ... I do....

Vrchlabi is a great place for gliding camps.... thermals start early and end late... plenty of beds at flight school... fair prices, two restaurants and very friendly people..