bristol balloon fiesta
I just spotted that this weekend is Bristol's Annual International Balloon Fiesta, Europe's biggest. The night glows are always good fun - check the video below from last year:
If the wind is in the right direction the balloons drift across the city and land somewhere between Bristol and Bath. Sometimes they don't make it - I remember when I was about 7 or 8 a balloon landed on my primary school field as we were walking to school in the morning (they take off twice a day, the first at dawn). Pretty exciting! I've never taken a hot air balloon ride but I think I'll have to one day. It looks like graceful way to travel, looking out over the West Country landscape.
If the wind is in the right direction the balloons drift across the city and land somewhere between Bristol and Bath. Sometimes they don't make it - I remember when I was about 7 or 8 a balloon landed on my primary school field as we were walking to school in the morning (they take off twice a day, the first at dawn). Pretty exciting! I've never taken a hot air balloon ride but I think I'll have to one day. It looks like graceful way to travel, looking out over the West Country landscape.
Labels: Fun, Landscapes, Miscellaneous
This work by James D.A. Millington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
posted by James at Tuesday, August 07, 2007
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