Things are Happening

There are a few more pilots milling around at the moment. I imagine there will be a lot happening over the next few days because there is a lot to still set up it looks like.
Today looks quite good and the boys are going north into the big stuff. Water and Oxygen has been fitted today.

Cumulus in the northern mountains.
You may notice all the hangars have their roofs loaded with solar panels.
If you look closely on the hangar to the left a couple of guys are washing the panels.

The famous French Poppies have been popping up all over the place in the last week.
You see them appearing everywhere from the fields to the lane divisions and even poking out of walls.

Things are done a little differently here to OZ.
A lot of apples, peaches and apricots are grown in the area. These are apple trees in the pic. As you can see they prune them pretty hard and shape them into thin rows and planted pretty close together. The nylon netting over the trees is to help protect them from hail damage.

The testing continues to find the best French beer.

You can see the results have changed since the last entry on the subject and we have more samples in the fridge so the data gathering is not yet complete.

Went for a walk up the big hill across the valley from our Gite. If you look really really close you can see our Gite in the center of the picture.

According to the Nano trace we walked about 5kms and climbed 600ft in elevation during the walk.

no wonder I needed a couple sample beers went we got home!

Along the way I became a bit tired from the up hill and down dale on steep stony tracks.

Graham found something that may have helped but it wouldn't start!

We don't know how it got there but it wasn't the only vehicle we found up the mountain in peculiar places.

On the track down we found that some of the track was now down in the river bed so a little stepping softly was required. No 4 wheeled vehicles will be using this track again I think.

Mark