Flying Adventures – Discovering Eagle

Day 7: La Roche to Vichy

Florian — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:03:37 +0000

The Surprise! As I wrote yesterday Isabelle of the La Roche glider club had a surprise for us. For breakfast she made us a very good coffee and invited us to show us her other hangar. So we drove around to the south side of the airfield to a company named TOP GUN Voltige were […]

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Day 6: Guiscriffe Scaer to La Roche

Florian — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 19:18:41 +0000

It was another night with lovely people at Guiscriffe in Brittany. But as always, it came the time to leave. The airport manager Laetitia was so welcoming. Despite having all hands full with a holiday event to fly disabled children, she insisted to say goodbye and wave us of! The almost two hours long flight […]

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Day 4 and 5: Avranches to Guiscriffe Scaer

Florian — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:27:31 +0000

Avranches was such a nice place that Hugo and I decided to stay a little longer. And it was worth it. Besides swimming in the Baie du Mont St. Michel we met many nice people! Thereunder Micheal from Germany who is flying around in his RV-6. But always comes the time to say goodbye and […]

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Day 3: Berck sur Mer – Grandville – Avranches

Florian — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:12:35 +0000

Berck sur Mer to Grandville Yesterday was another great day for flying. Almost no clouds in the sky! Just some annoying 20kt headwind… After breakfast we departed Berck southbound along to coast until Dieppe were we than cut inland and around Le Havre and Deauville. The flight than continued along the cost again along the […]

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Day 2: Charleville – Berck sur Mer

Florian — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:13:22 +0000

As we woke up in our tent at Charleville the sun was shining already and it was beautiful flying weather. After breakfast we said goodbye to the Aeroclub of Charleville and departed westbound, destination Berck sur Mer. Berck is actually kind of the GA airport of Le Touquet and definitely closer to the beach. The […]

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Day 1: Celle – Dahlemer Binz – Charleville

Florian — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:20:53 +0000

We are on the road again! Yesterday we departed our airfield Celle-Arloh in the late morning and headed towards France. Plan and Replan! Originally, it was planned to remain in Germany for the first night. But unfortunately my friend couldn’t accommodate us in the end. And so we decided to fly all the way into […]

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Information Evening at Celle-Arloh

Florian — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:42:50 +0000

Almost two weeks ago I gave a presentation in the clubhouse of the Flugsportvereinigung Celle about my flight around the British Isles this summer.

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Day 10: Time to get home!

Florian — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:00:48 +0000

What did Helmut say? You have two or three days left until the weather catches up with you… (Day 9) Awesome breakfast After a good nights sleep in the heart of Brussels Hugo and I woke up for a very good breakfast with Valerie. After chatting a bit more and getting some tips for my […]

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Day 9: Back to the Continent

Florian — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:00:18 +0000

As Helmut has told us, we had only about two or three days left to get back home because another low pressure system was moving in from the Atlantic. Changing the plan, again! Originally we had planned to continue southbound from the Isle of Wight and to fly to Alderney in the Canary Islands. Then […]

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Weekend in Auschwitz

Florian — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:01:13 +0000

Things you need to see There are things you have to see at least once in your life. The Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland is one of these! But why? I assume by now it is well-known that the Nazis did horrible mass murder on the Jews and other minorities. And since it has happened […]

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