SWK wrote:
However, a back up plan may be to just do some local flying with an
instructor (as per Kees suggestion), although I had hoped to do a short
cross country.

read your posting on fr.rec.aviation and found out you
were a glider pilot! if you get a chance, try to
get to one of the large glider ports there, i.e.,
Vinon, Sisteron or Fayence (in the south east, near
the Durance); really worth the detour, and might be
quite nice if you could spend a few days there (lots
of pilots from all around Europe converge there during
summer, and the locals are quite used to foreign
pilots)

---Sylvain