YES, one holiday over , with, as you can see on the picture [town of Middelburg] , a few days of great weather and the next is upcoming; Uvalde Texas.
The Dutch gliders have been send and will arrive nicely in time to fly the WGC. It is a huge job for all those who have to send their own glider to Houston or another harbour. They will travel in containers or roll on roll off ,what ever is chosen by the country sending them.
I organised those roll on roll off and container  trips several times; Benalla , Uvalde 1991, Finland and the UK. Paperwork….carnets and ….it is so easy when you have no experience to make mistakes. But, as we all could do it in the past, the pilots/tc’s now can do it as well.
On the picture from Jeroen Kroon, who will be in Uvalde as crew for open class pilot Peter Batenburg,you can see the trailers ready for shipment.

For Marina and Giorgio Galetto, life in July/August looks different. Marina was supposed to be TC for the Italian team in Uvalde , but has resigned as expected and Giorgio , who surely was a top favourite in 18 m. has to use the time to recover from his accident in the French mountains. The good news is that he will be “fresh and new” in about half a year. It could have been so different/worse. Next time he will be flying in the top of the list again, with a new experience, he surely would have loved to miss, but should be seen as a lesson in life not only for him but also for others. As Marina said : “We can carry on our gliders all the tools made available by the modern technology, but the real safety is in the head of the pilots. ”

The Euro glide-race has at this moment the openings briefing. 133 Pilots forming 22 teams in self-launchers, 20 in turbo’s and 11 gliders and from 6 different countries are ready to go for it. Here is the schedule again for those who missed it, [courtesy Euroglide site] ;
—“Starting in Eindhoven to the south east, to the Wustweiler (abandoned) airfield in the Saarland. Then heading east, crossing the Rhein and passing Nurnberg to enter the Czech republik in the south. Maintain heading east along the Czech-Austrian border into Slowakia, to the second turnpoint Ruzomberok. After that to the north, into Poland and back into Germany to the airfield Pasewalk Franzfelde, north of Berlin. From there to the south west, back to the Netherlands, to the glider field Malden. This task totals to 2350 km.—“

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