We had a complete day in Lisbon and managed to cover the main sights. Rather longer would be required for a full exploration but home beckoned. We would have a last night away in La Rochelle, meeting up with Paul and Sally Turner, one of the two PPL/IR pilots whom we failed to meet up with on Gran Canaria, and have a good fish dinner at Andrées.
The en route weather was generally good but as we flew north, we ran into a weak cold front moving east into France. At FL120, we were comfortably on top but the latest LFBH metars showed that an ILS to minimums would be necessary and so it turned out to be.
Phil was first, having taken off from Cascais some time after me, I was next, then Paul in his TB21 and finally Ryanair flying in from Stansted, all landing in the space of about half an hour.
Miranda and I then got stuck outside the “sterile area” which some rather tedious security guy insisted we keep clear off (we had to park on the hard standing as grass area G was waterlogged) until Ryanair departed, so we took refuge in the control tower and texted a by now worried Phil assuring him of our safe arrival, which he had not seen.
Eventually we all met up and so into La Rochelle and later to Andrée.
Cascais to La Rochelle: 666 nm in 4 hours 40 min