Thursday 19.11.2015, Going to Narromine
Time to leave Sydney, fly to Dubbo and then have a drive to Narromine. At the airport shuttle I met some German guys and we talked about gliding, the hot weather as the day was going to be super-hot, driver got to talk about refugees etc.
When I told to people that I was going to Dubbo, they all we’re “oh, it’s gonna be hot” or “what a girl like you does in a place like that”. I got my chance to tell them about gliding competitions, and giving them lectures that the extreme hot temperature and strong winds aren’t what we are looking for.
Surprise at security check was that unlike in Hong Kong, here nobody couldn’t care less of me having a 0,5 l water bottle with me, go figure.
Just after short one hour flight I arrived to Dubbo. You know the feeling when you are travelling and getting out from the plane and facing the local weather which would be totally different than home? Well, when I am travelling from Finland, usually I get to face hotter weather quite often. This was exactly that feeling, as the day was really hot, it felt like I would have walked in to sauna. I just had to laugh out loud, since it felt really promising. Remember that it’s November and last walk I had before my flight on Sunday around 17:00 afternoon, it was +5, totally dark and raining a bit. Here I was, just the opposite weather – well I was opposite side of the World as well.
Beryl came to pick me up, we had met at Lezsno JWGC2013 and I was glad that she recognized me. We drove to Narromine, I got to see my hotel room for coming few weeks and then we went to the airfield.
In the evening Beryl and her husband Arnie fixed us dinner, we had chicken skewers and salad. Simon from Danish team had arrived already and his team mates are coming lot later, so he joined us. There wasn’t any reason for me to complain; good food, nice people, outside at really nice temperature. I could get used to this.
I had to walk to the toilet (don’t have private one) at night, I had a quick look of the kitchen we might be using here. One huge cockroach was staring at me between the cereals. It looked at me and waved its tentacles and I stared at it. When I turned my back to find something to catch it with, it saw its opportunity and disappeared.