Alphen aan den Rijn    Wednesday August 25 2010     ritzdeluy@hotmail.com

Last Monday is a day to quickly forget! Not only here in Holland but I guess as well in Germany, the UK, Belgium and the N of France. Some places in Holland had 54 mm of rain in one morning while normally 60 mm falls over a month. Sadly some people were wounded and the famous tree in the garden of the Anne Frank house does not exist anymore; it blew over from a wind gust. Even the steel frame around it to keep this sick tree straight up , was blown away. More wind in a small German town where several houses were ”beheaded”  by a huricane. And…it is not even autumn yet! On Tuesday this weather moved up N to Scandinavia.
Still great soaring weather in Fuente where Pepe managed to fly 946 km flying the ridges on Sunday.
Rieti still has good weather as well with frequent- Rieti -flyer Alfredo Giretti topping the list last Monday with a 640 km flight.
2 Islands close to Spain, Majorca and Ibiza have huge fires!

Some of the young pilots from Germany move over the world as if life only exists out of soaring. The Musbach pre junior worlds are over and Alexander Spaeth and some friends are back in Vinon to fly MORE! But…the weather is not really flash there as well. Today was quite a nice day here but lot’s of rain again later in the evening.

And then this…..
—- a 3 kilo weighing piece of ice falling out of the sky  smashed the front window of a car. According to an astronomist from the University of Groningen this must be a piece [looking blue from and smelling after soap and detergent]  fallen out of the the toilet from an airplane!!! This seems to happen once or twice a year???
—- A private jet crashed in bad weather in Nepal. The plane was on its way back to Kathmandu,  after it was not able to land close to the Mount Everest due to bad weather. It never reached Kathmandu either. 4 People from the USA, 1 Japanese and UK passenger were under the victims.

Short news today as I have as guest,..sorry
Ritz