Now in Portugal

We are now in Portugal in a lovely but quiet town called Linhares on the edge of the Siera de Estralas mountain range. We are both entered into a local competition which started Monday and finishes on Thursday. The local organisation is excellent with packed lunch provided. There is free camping in a nice shadey area with electricity, showers etc. 
We flew a task on Monday which was great fun. A very hard first turnpoint upwind along the ridge was the tricky bit. The winner had basically won the race by the first turnpoint after only 10km!  I chased hard but got stuck in an area of burnt land, black ground looked purfect for a good thermal but nothing! A navigation error at the end (not knowing where the goal was and flying in the wrong direction!!) cost me 10 mins and second place. Came into goal with 1000+ meters! Still got 4th though. 
Wendy had a great day, enjoying her flying more than she has done for a while. This showed as she flew well, landing high on the mountain and finishing top women! Our team of 2 are in 5th place, great as the top 3 in any team score. 
Tuesday was blown out so no flying. We sat on take off then went down into the valley for a swim in fantastic cool river water. Great. 
Today (Wednesday) looks better with less wind but he military look like they may throw a spanner in the works by activating a massive no fly zone :-( We will not know until later on take off so we could be looking at a classic day we cannot use!
This competition finishes on Thursday then I have two days off before the Portugese PWC which is a 7 day event.  Enjoying it here and a great relief to have good organisation for a change!!