Here's a tenuous link to the previous post - about 4 years ago we were waiting for the ferry from Royan across to the Gironde to Pte de Grave (of Cockleshell Heroes fame). Another UK registered car pulled up and after the usual British several minutes of ignoring each other, the other driver and I fell into conversation. They were on the way back to their house on the Haute-Medoc, and I explained that I was on the way to an RAF Association meeting near Bordeaux. "Did you ever fly Avros?" he asked. "Only once, my first flight aged 13 was in an Anson. Why do you ask?" "Only that A V Roe was my Grandfather" he replied - and was pleased that I knew it was the centenary year of A V Roe's first flight.
Have a nice Monday, all.