Spent the rest of my holiday in Dorset apart from a weekend in Shropshire visiting rellies. First day in Dorset was sunny, and we went to the beach, which sported lots of people enjoying the sunshine wearing swimming gear. Trouble is the wind was freezing - I needed my fur coat! Weather was hot later on by UK standards - 32 degrees C and they were warning everyone about the dangers of heatstroke! I must have got acclimatized because I actually braved swimming in the sea one day.
On one weekend we visited Dorset Gliding club, where Peter Robinson allowed me to fly his cirrus. It was a quiet weekend there, so the winch was not operating. I took an aerotow to 2000 ft, and glided down to cloudbase at 1500 ft. Some circling in zero lift extended the flight to about 20 min. Then Peter derigged his glider again and put it away and that was that! We don't know how lucky we are here both with weather and hangar space. John had a flight with an instructor in a K13, and we had a good yak to the club members.
Time went all too quickly, and I was soon on my way back to Aus. Slept most of the way again, and didn't really suffer much from jet lag at all.
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