Lots of us and lots of stories so this is just the basics about the actual flying and where to stay. See the video for some very typical flying. Other photo’s may emerge…. The stories may not. To be clear, no one was deported.
Abiding memory
Every corner of this foreign field will turn your glider forever Brown.
The Overview
It was a right good holiday. Best time to go is January, February, March and maybe into April. October, November less good but people do go. More chance of Fog off the sea. Check with Damian who owns the hotel. Sunsoar, Jerry from Slovenia, tend to go early March. Its about trying to get the balance between longer days and more sun for thermals, and it getting too busy. It can indeed get too busy especially Fridays. And even busier if it was just a ridge soaring day with little vertical separation. Only one day really caused busyness issues where I didn’t fancy a white-knuckle slalom along the ridge.
A typical day was a proper holiday flying: lazy breakfast at 9 ish, go for a walk, go to the beach, buy a rug, then maybe head to eagles’ nest for lunch and fly mid afternoon or late afternoon for typically an hour or two. Back for a sundown beer, dinner at 8 ish, sleep, repeat. Easy to manage for a week or two. Only one day did we fly till after the sun went down.
Longest duration flight, 3 hours. Shortest duration flight 7 minutes ttb. Maximum height gain at the coast was as video and about 500ft above the ridge. Not really an xc place but Damian flew, or almost flew, a 20 k out and return. And on the day we went to Reggada it was a bit of pushing into the flats for a few k with topping out at 3 or 4000ft.
Warm and sunny during the day, cool at night
Where to rest your head
We stayed at the Abertih Hotel in Mirleft, owned by Damian, who is a pilot and very useful. You can stay at the eagles’ nest but it is the middle of nowhere. Our hotel was just fine and we liked it very much. Nice people. The food was good too. Mirleft is a small Moroccan town and interesting. Mine and Linda’s bill for 13 nights, and hire car, and breakfast and dinner, and drinks, was £525 each.
Going back?
For sure: middle or second two weeks of Feb ’26 for Linda and I.
Fred
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