Today the rest of the group leaves us to fly home to the UK with a planned night stop at Schwabish Hall in Germany and a refuelling stop en route at Baleton in Hungary which we visited around eight years ago.
Coming down to breakfast with the group, tables are covered with pc’s and tablets as the latest weather is perused. There is a cold front moving east from Austria into Hungary with forecast showers and possible icing with better weather behind it. We say goodbye and see everyone into their taxis and monitor their flights westwards; all arrive safely although there was some bad weather en route.
The spare magneto should arrive at RGV tomorrow and the plan is that Phil will fly it out on Tuesday morning with RGV engineer Geoff Broucke arriving around 4 pm local time. Assuming fair weather, the magneto should take around 2 hours to fit allowing a short test flight before nightfall which would enable a departure early on Wednesday morning – fingers crossed.
After a hectic few days, we decide to have a leisurely day wandering round Sibiu; the museums are open today and closed tomorrow so we will go to the History and Art Museums today and then visit the Catholic and Lutheran Cathedrals tomorrow. Both museums turned out to be well worth a visit with an intervening light lunch. In the central square, a massive marquee was being erected which we found fascinating so sat down to watch the operation for 20 minutes or so; Key Structures on a grand scale so today’s photographs capture that for Richard’s benefit.
There was a also a book fair going on in the smaller square and a miniature beer/food festival along one of the outer city walls and generally all the world wandering about in temperatures of 30ยบ C plus.
However not long after we returned to our hotel for a pause, a massive thunderstorm broke with very gusty winds and torrential rain (all in accordance with the forecast) so we delayed going out to dinner until it was past. Much cooler now and far fewer people around; luckily the forecast for tomorrow is fair.
