Latest News by Ritz
The Netherlands.
Wow, it took more time then expected to keep in touch with you. Luckily Mike Mike is active enough with great stories about competition flying and I hope you enjoy them !!!
What happened with me!? First I could not get into my stories anymore, but DOWNUNDER I have my friends Tony and Phill and Phill got me back into action.
Then I stayed for 1 month with a friend and she HATES computers , so no luck to do something there. I am back “home” now and thought before you all forget about me , I better write straight away , so here we are.
Life is a bit complicated , when you have to travel around. For that reason I was happy to go and live in my OWN brandnew house. But….instead of being ready somewhere in the end of September , the house will be ready mid November. Reason to change all my plans again and move to Australia before moving in. So I will leave in a week for Tocumwal again to say farewell to ALL my friends , which will be pretty sad as I loved them all.
It is also a farewell from a great life- style I had, with my friends wo were running the Gliding Business in Tocumwal with me and with lots of fantastic people , pilots, friends who came back and back again to fly with us and who supported us till the end and still now.
I will miss EVERYBODY, so you can imagine that the last couple of weeks were not easy. It hurts to see the truth!
But…life goes on so do I.
From Tocumwal I will keep you informed.
The big auction from gliders, tug’s and everything we used in the bar and restaurant, workshops and office is for sale now, in a big auction and though I hate to see that the “owner” who sells, earns money in such a way , you might be able to find something to your liking.Info will be soon at www.sportavia.com.au
I will stay in Australia for only 1 month! But I will make time to talk to the webmasters to get this soaring.eu blog in a more fashionable way to you.Plans are “cooked”at the moment.
I have been also invited by the Dutch Gliding Association to attend 2 seminars about promototion of topsport .
Will keep you informed about that too. This will be on November 25 and December 2 as far as I know now. This Wednesday I will visit the KNVvL in Papendal.
In between I try to pack to have my removal straight after coming back in November. Luckily I had great help from George and Diana to organize my removal in Australia.So hopefully before the new year starts I can live in peace again, this time in Holland.
The last 5 days were filled with an Art fair in Haarlem.Antique paintings and modern ones , ONLY on paper and unica’s, were hanging in a great old building in a very small street were you could only enter, when the owner of the house opened a gate.
Though we have a few nice days with temperatures around 20 again, which is high for the time of the year,summer is over and great flights in Europe are rare.So we are going to look what’s going to happen in South Africa and Australia as lots of pilots are planning on disappearing the cold ,to enjoy the summer in those parts of the world.Corowa in Australia is expecting 4 containers with European gliders this season and everything is packed and on its way.A few of Sportavia glider pilots will fly there this season and I am sure they will have a good time.
That’s it for now. Next news will be from sunny Australia ! See you then, Ritz.