Ah, I'm confusing posting times. I see my original post was well over a day ago and so I can confirm what anybody with any curiosity and access to GE will already have discovered, it is Invermere airport (CAA8).
The valley can be very dry and parched at the end of the summer.

Concerning my aircraft rental riddle, it was a Super Cub on floats! In the early 90s, a friend of mine who had just got a float rating at Invermere, took me for a ride. I hadn’t flown floats for 15 years, but the flight rekindled my enthusiasm. A few weeks later, I was on a weeks holiday, staying in a cabin on Lake Windemere (bottom left of the picture). The first weekend, I drove up to the airport and enquired about how long a checkout would take. “Oh, about an hour” was the response, so we went flying.

After my checkout, which reconfirmed what fun floatplanes are, I asked if I could do some flying during the week.

“Well, we’re not very busy during the week so why don’t you take the keys and the logbook and settle up at the end of the week?”

So I had my own floatplane for a week. I spent a lot more than I had planned to!

The Super Cub was stored on a ramp by the road bridge, where the Columbia River flows north out of Lake Windemere. An interesting feature of the photo is the prominent valley. This is the Rocky Mountain Trench, a 1600 Km rift valley, which runs from Montana up to the BC-Yukon border. It is a very obvious feature from space:


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ab113e7d2d.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Trench

Asturias has control.

I thought "float plane" seeing how close it was to water....................

as for the Rocky Mt Trench any chance it could become a spreading centre and condemn Alberta to permanent servitude under the pinko leftish radicals of Ontario while BC drifts off to join Hawaii? Tho I see its Right lateral so BC is more likely to become part of the NT............................................

Here's another challenge.... I42 is a big glider man.....................


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....821a5fb5db.jpg

One remained at Bovingdon until about 1967; it was in the same hangar as our gliders (on detachment from 613 GS Halton until we were displaced by 617 GS moving in from Hendon) and I climbed inside it once.
Before Neil Willams flew it out, they drilled a hole in the tailplane and drained out several pints of rainwater; it returned in 1968 along with at least 2 other flying examples to film 'Mosquito Squadron'.

Looks like 'Daisy' at Lasham on the left.

It isn't Lashup ...................
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....77367beace.jpg

Could it be Swanton Morley ?

I resemble that remark. I assume you are referring to the 20m ship I fly and not my mass! :)

I recognized the T21b and Olympia (?) but I didn't think the trees and hills matched Lasham. Is it in Scotland?

Kent gliding club Challock ?

Daisy was the prototype T21, not a T21b and she was painted red when I flew her in '66.

It's NOT in the UK - and It's also a commercial airport with a limited number of International flights...............
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....be900d6b42.jpg

Is it Rieti ?

No but it is in Europe

Two languages spoken in the nearby city..............

Dutch....?

No - pretty flat around the challenge tho'....................
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9d0aa99398.jpg

Desperately trying to think of bilingual European cities where one of the two languages isn't Dutch...

They don't speak French and German in Liege, do they? (the airfield being Bierset if I'm correct. I'm probably not :) )

Looks like RAFGSA, with a T21....European, so Germany or Cyprus? Laarbruch?

It's not French or German and it's not Germany....................... nor Cyprus

Opened in 1938 I believe

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4ca2bf973b.jpg

Pretty flat - Denmark or Finland maybe.

Yes - you're right...................

The bilingual clue makes me think it's somewhere on the West coast of Finland. Where exactly, though? I'll have one of my occasionally-lucky punts, and say Oulu.