Holiday plus Road Trip 25th April to 5th May 2019

[mrbluesky]

Had a fantastic weeks holiday in Lanzarote which included a very good log between Thursday 25th of April returning to Manchester at 03:55 Friday 3rd May (Flight delayed 3 + hrs) finally got to my bed just after 5am getting up at 09:30 to prepare for our trip down to Southampton for two day's to visit friends and staying at the Premier Inn West Quay. Got down to same at 17:35 having set off from Runcorn at approx. 12:30pm. Meal and a few drinks with our friends in TGI Fridays before getting to bed at 22:30.

Up nice and early Saturday had breakfast before I set off for Popham, the wife was going National Trusting with our friends- Got to Popham just after 11am- it was freezing mainly down to the wind- so managed to stick it out until just before 13:00 when I cut my losses and headed to Farnborough where I managed a few nice biz jets and also did a drive by of the FAST Museum to see the aircraft outside some which I needed.

After Popham- went to Blackbushe where a almost full log was obtained. Then I headed to Lasham where I spent a couple of hours which included my second trip around the excellent Glider Heritage Centre- I had spoken to the head instructor from Lasham at Popham earlier together with another Lasham member who was handing out leaflets for the centre. The head instructor gave us a very informative but quick tour of both hangars which included the history plus registrations of the fifty odd gliders in the centre. After the tour which included a £5 donation shook the head pilots hand and headed back to Lasham- leaving at about 16:40. getting back to Southampton, where I went to our friends home for a meal and a few drinks before returning to the hotel.

Sunday -up early breakfast- and instead of heading M3-A34 did a detour with the wife's permission of course to Kemble- to catch up with some of the stuff which had arrived in the past few months. Then we went to the Waitrose in Cirencester to get a few odds and ends before returning home- arriving at 17:35 and an very enjoyable but tiring 11 days holiday- road trip. 

Albeit Popham was a bit of a let down- still made a few- Sunday was better at Popham- could have gone but chose Kemble instead. Overall over the eleven days quite a few hit the books in Lanzarote and on the road trip. Busy couple of months coming up- aircraft wise. Back to work Tuesday- but at least the blues won on Friday.

Happy Spotting

Bob