Euro Day 45 - SOW Day 3

Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Today we were back at the same arena, with the same 20 minute hike straight up the hill to get there.  We seemed to make all the train/shuttle connections a bit better today, so the overall travel time was thankfully a lot quicker, and without the bonus gondola trips we got home closer to 3 than 7pm.

Our courses were shorter than yesterday - although some of us managed to make them longer anyway as the navigation was much trickier, some of the controls were small depressions in the midst of rough, thick and steep forest which made it easy to lose lots of time (which I did).  Doh. This is the day's event video.

These photos are from the event web site - below is a good example of the visibility in some areas.

It was a beautiful sunny morning so I went for a swim in the lake after I finished which was great.  Then I went and bought a new compass as my brand new silva compass has a bubble in it that's so big it needs its own compass.  This makes the needle swing around constantly, which in turn makes it very hard to navigate to the bingo control sites hidden in the almost impenetrable forest. I bought the cheapo brand, but it will still be much better.

And everyone else was very happy with my purchase simply because they wouldn't have to listen to me whine about the bubble any more. 

Jon bought a nice running top, and the kids got new small o-gear bags.   Speaking of shopping, Switzerland is very very expensive for food shopping (and probably other things, but we're mostly looking at food).  A modest supermarket shop costs us well over $200 dollars, and of course it doesn't help that the exchange rate is so bad at the moment.   At least we won't get such a shock when we get to Norway next week!

As I write this we're having a thunderstorm, and earlier this afternoon we had our zillionth hailstorm of the summer.  Tomorrow is the rest day, but the forecast is equally terrible. We have modest plans to visit a few indoor locations after a sleep-in and leisurely breakfast.