Turkey superfinal

We are in Turkey now for the PWC Superfinal. We arrived early yesterday at Dalaman airport after an overnight flight. A haggleing session with the airport Taxi drivers resulted in a ride to the hotel.
The hotel is good- it is the location used by the organisation last year- with good rooms and a large pool. 
Today is Tuesday and is the official practice day. A lorry turned up at 10am and took the gliders, now we are on the transport bus up to take off. 
Today's forecast looks like the possibility of storms later so a fairly quick fly with a keen look out at the clouds is in order. 
Pamucale (where the competition is based) is a small tourist town at the foot of the hills. On the first hill is a magnficent series of pools created by calcium deposits. On top of the hill are some roman ruins. All very scenic. I am looking foreward to flying over them later ;-)
Update: we went up to the top take off. The wind was switching and coming mostly over the back. Conditions looked interesting and some pilots took off. Many of us thought it looked a bit dodgy and elected not to fly. We drove down and stopped at the lower take off. I go ready to take off but yet again it looked marginal with most pilots having an 'interesting' take off. Again I elected not to fly. It's a long competition ahead and to take an injury on the practice day would be catastrophic. 
We got back on the bus and it promptly broke down! We walked/hitched back to town and registration/ opening ceremony. By this time he wind was blowing hard. Hmm 

22nd- first task day
We awoke to very light winds this morning and are now on our way up to take off. The extended forecast is showing strong northerly winds (aparently) which is not good when take off faces south! We shall see but I am optimistic for. A task. As long as the southerly wind created by the thermals is stronger than the north metio wind we are in business. Fingers crossed......