Our poor summer weather has continued into the first weeks of Autumn and tomorrow shows some distinctly unsettled weather for the first leg of our trip. There are two principal ways to Split where we meet up with the first of the other participants on Sunday evening; either south through France and then eastwards over Italy or SE’wards through Belgium, Germany and Austria before turning south along the Dalmatian coast. This second route requires a crossing of the Alps with possibly difficult flying conditions in the event of any frontal weather. Forecast charts earlier in the week suggested a fair amount of this so the decision was taken to route through France to a first night stop at Avignon, an old favourite of ours. The forecast for tomorrow shows a couple of troughs and cold front en route with showers and occasional CB so potentially a tricky flight with a lowish freezing level albeit with some tailwind component. Life is made more complicated by the need to comply with a specified arrival time for customs at Avignon and an arrival slot time at Split on Sunday afternoon so last minute changes due to poor weather are difficult to manage.