Now In Greece!

We packed up in Slovenia just as the weather turned - storms, lightening and rain! We were very lucky with the weather for the competition, poor weather the week before and great during the competition!
After a lot of thought we decided to take a ferry from Venice to Greece instead of driving the 1200km to Greece. I would love to have done the drive, through some amazing scenery and interesting countries - Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria - but it worked out that the ferry would be quicker and the cost about the same. iVan (Wendy's 16 year old Talbot Highlander) is pretty underpowered and struggles up anything other than a gentle incline. No, that's not true - a gentle incline is a problem too ;-)
The ferry was great, sunning our selves and swimming in the pool as the world went by! It leaves and sails through Venice so we got to do some sight seeing too!
We arrived in Igoumenitsa in the evening and set off on the nearly completed motorway towards Turkey. Being incomplete meant the toll booths were not completed and the journey was free! The bad news was the price of fuel. Due to Greece's terrible economic situation the government have put fuel prices up dramatically. A staggering €1.46 (cheapest)!! That's £1.22 a litre. It was recently as low as €0.80 a litre!!
We travelled to Olympic Wings at Neos Panteleimonas and stayed a day. Wendy has borrowed an old Swing Arcus to fly - she has had so little air time in recent years she is not happy flying her new Niviuk Artic 2. Shame as it is a superb glider. So she is looking at a trade in or to sell the glider;

Niviuk Artic 2,
http://www.niviuk.com/eng/glider_product.asp?prod=artik2
EN C/ LTF 2,
Size XS (60-80kg) in 'Skate' colours (red),
7 hours
New in November
for sale, offers in the region of £1995 please!!!! She may part exchange for a 1-2.

From Olympic Wings we drove on to Drama. I am competing in the Greek Paragliding World Cup round here starting on Sunday. Unfortunately, as I write the rain is falling, lightening is flashing and the sound of thunder is almost constant. Doh :-((
Fingers crossed for some better weather for the competition. At least we can watch England thrash Algeria tonight in the bar!