Just been reading your very interesting blog – especially the computer related parts 
Just published my writeup of the trip, with some pictures:
https://n5296s.blogspot.com/2023/08/flight-to-croatia-my-first.html
That was a truly amazing meal – three whole fish. The very best, one of the best fish dinners I’ve ever had, was the salt-crusted sea bass, whose remains are to the left. An extraordinary dinner.
As for who’s who, I think I recognize the guy at the right in the stripey shirt. The rest are a bit of a blur, even though the staff have removed the wine bottle – or was there more than one?
Graham wrote:
The EuroGA fish destruction club :-)
2 dinners times 4 kg of fish plus significant quantity of seafood-based starters plus side-dishes probably more than 10 kg of food. I’d say respectable achievement.
The EuroGA fish destruction club :-)
Good pic – now who is going to work out who is who 
The other stuff was well done in previous threads.
tmo wrote:
One word: Revolut. There is a free tier and the fees, if any, are reasonable. I believe the company itself is UK based, although in the EU they operate under a banking license from one of the Baltic countries.
Absolutely. Last month I had to make instant payment to account in UK and I did it with Revolut and money reached the other side within the minute. Same applies for practically any account in Europe for a very small fee. Plus superb exchange rates and no-charge cash at many ATMs across Europe. I told Peter to apply for Revolute to solve his credit card issues while travelling.
And last but not least the picture from one of our dinners.
Peter wrote:
they email you an invoice, which is harder for UK visitors because they get hit with a big bank fee for foreign payments
One word: Revolut. There is a free tier and the fees, if any, are reasonable. I believe the company itself is UK based, although in the EU they operate under a banking license from one of the Baltic countries.
On my JAA IR checkride I would have much preferred a VOR approach over an NDB approach, but EGHI had both. Luckily the NDB was notamed INOP so I got the easier one. I still made a bit of a hash of it
In the preflight briefing I told the examiner (a well known ex RAF – but very nice; looking at his last RAF job he had no reason to have a chip on his shoulder – CAA staffer) about this notam. He showed just a faint glimmer of surprise, for about 200ms, but I will never know if it was real
As we discussed before, the LFMT 3 days’ parking PN is outrageous. I’ve emailed them and told them that they are basically closing the airport to GA. Except, evidently, French pilots who just make a phone call and get the “Oui”
Cue NOTAM endangered species video. NOTAMs are truly absurd. Every time I want to fly from Cannes to Cuers (about 40 nm) I have to plough through dozens of the things about not overflying North Korea, 5 foot high fences 3 miles off the end of the runway at an airport I’m not going to, not flying Belorussian aircraft, interruptions to weather services 1000 miles away…
