In a couple of weeks, I’m flying with my pilot-pal Maurice to Jersey and the channel islands. We’ll start on Thursday August 7 and fly from Luxembourg to Quiberon airport, which will take a couple of hours in our C172 (click here for the details)
From Quiberon, we’ll fly on to the nearby Ile d’Quessant. Thios will be a lovely flight via the coast line. At Ile d’Quessant , we’ll try the famous Agneau de pré-salé (in French: “Salt meadow lamb”), which is a type of lamb which was raised in salt marsh meadows of France, especially Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy and the Bay of the Somme in Picardy. The sheep graze in pastures that are covered in halophyte grasses with a high salinity and iodine content, causing their meat to have a distinct taste that is considered a delicacy.
If weather allows, we are continuying our journey to Saint Malo and the Mont Saint Michel and from there to the Channel Islands Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney
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| 3rd leg: Jersey |
It is an ambitious plan, reason the more to mentally prepare. That’s why last week I have been flying an hour at the EBZW Zwartberg airfield in Belgium, simply doing training exercises by myself: touch and go’s, precautionary landing, simulated forced landing ,landing with and without flaps, steep turns, kiss landings and precise landings
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| EBZW landing |
This evening, I’m going for an evening flight in Luxembourg with Maurice in order to discuss the preparation of our 4 day trip in August