The year is 2019 A.D.. The ballooning world is entirely travelling to Chambley. Well, not entirely… one small group of indomitable people still holds out against the mass. And life is indeed easy for the 66 balloon teams in the heart of the Umbrian countryside… ;-) After ten days in Italy, we can say that [...]

Past weekend, we visited the Friendship Balloon Meet of the Ballonsportclub Hellenstein e.V. at Heidenheim. Weather allowed one flight, however, the aerial meeting with the glider plane club Fliegergruppe Giengen e.V. at sunrise made this morning a true highlight! :-) Many thanks to all the club members at Heidenheim for the excellent hospitality and catering! [...]

We’ve just returned home from some relaxed days of ballooning at the Gitzenweiler Hof camping site! Despite weather wasn’t quite with us on Friday and Saturday, we had some pretty good flights and a nice glow yesterday evening :-)   [...]

For some years already, we’ve been looking forward to visit the balloon meeting at Kiel, which takes place during the famous Kieler Woche, one of the biggest sailing ship events worldwide. And this year, we teamed up with Kubicek Balloons Germany and turned that dream into reality! =) We couldn’t have chosen a better year. [...]

Just as the year before, the destination of the annual Youth Camp of the Balloon Club of Stuttgart was once more the little town of Seeg, Allgäu. The weather forecast was even worse than in 2018, but again, we managed to carry out two flights, one swimming pool visit, and spent nice evenings singing around [...]

Every year in May, the Balloon Club of Augsburg holds a gas balloon meeting with about ten balloons, following a long tradition of gas ballooning in the towns of Gersthofen and Augsburg. In 1931, Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard and his engineer Paul Kipfer launched there to be the first men in the stratosphere – in [...]

About last weekend… flight two of two! :-) Sunday evening brought another chance for flying, after it had finally cleared up during the afternoon. Fabulous hop alongside the Gitzenweiler Hof Balloon from Seeg to Lechbruck.   [...]

Sometimes, not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck! ;-) And after two lovely flights at home this weekend, I am truly happy that none of my planned trips worked out… things do happen for a reason. Flight one of two was a nice passenger flight with Bavaria Ballonfahrten on Saturday morning [...]

The weather in Southern Germany is all but flyable at the moment… good for nature, bad for ballooning. So we’re enjoying some memories from two weeks ago… :-)   [...]

We’ve just returned from an unexpectedly nice weekend at the Slapy Balloon Fiesta in Chotilsko, Czech Republic! Although the forecast was quite pessimistic, the weather allowed two beautiful flights over the Vltava region south of Prague. After the Friday morning flight had to be cancelled due to rain showers (a welcome opportunity to catch some [...]