I came back from Namibia just in time to be in Vienna to greet Clare when she arrived for another weekend in Vienna. But before she arrived we had a disappointment as the impending BA strike had led BA to re-book Clare home on the Monday evening flight rather than the Tuesday flight she had planned to use.
Anyway we had been invited out to Fontana for ther races on Saturday with friends Elizabeth (who tried to teach me German when I first arrived here) and her husband James who is an architect who works with Magna Corporation the conglomerate who own, amongst other operations, the race course at Fontana - it is called the Magna Racino!
On Saturday the weather was grey and threatening but not actually raining. We drove out to Fontana in James's car and were seated in the prime table in the restaurant actually overlooking the finish line.
L-R: Peter, Clare, Elizabeth and James at THE table
The racing is alternately flat racing and trotting on concentric tracks, quite unusual for me to see as in Australia these are always separate activities at different venues. The meal was really good buffet witha superb range of dishes and we were able to graze all the aftrnoon between races ( and bets).
The start of the trots
The close finish of a trotting race
We bet on most events and despite some remarkable ups and downs the day ended more or less even. A really "grand day out" as Wallace would have said!
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