Empuriabrava is home to hedonism of the adventurous kind. You come here if you want a home en soleil where you can park your boat out the front and have a car, motorbike or plane within walking distance.
Apparently it was a swamp until some seriously enterprising developer turned it into the Venetian canals. A comparison to Runaway Bay, Queensland, is probably not unfair.
Aside from boating and beaching, the primary activity is skydiving. They are leaping from 2 planes every 20 minutes or so and in their hundreds. As you would expect, youth dominates the environment. The pilots are all well under 30 (but bloody good- it is a short runway with plenty of wind),
the nationalities abundant, and the attitudes free.
One interesting character is a famous wing jumper. Look in YouTube for Breitling wingman. I had seen his youtubes even before coming here and embarrassingly when i met him squeaked "you're famous!" Bleuch. I'll be living with that like a teenage girl lives with her first words to her highschool crush.
Photo of him below along with the ding on the airtractor and Charly, Eckhardt's permanent sidekick.
It looks like you might have been throwing a few balls for Charlie. What a cute face. Read your comment about watching the weather closely on your previous post; now it feels like one of our trips around Australia.
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ReplyDeleteGiven that there seems to be a number of people from various locations watching Tony’s progress I’ve set the SPOT display to GMT.
Hopefully this will remove any uncertainty as to when he is.
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DeleteI should add here that this will apply to future reports. The existing ones will stay as they are.
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ReplyDeleteOn his way again at 0700 local I think.
ReplyDeleteThank you Peter for loaning Tony Spot. It is certainly providing nightly entertainment for all of us. i wonder whether it will rival the Olympics.
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