After a break of two days, weather was flyable again on Thursday evening at the Kieler Woche – our fourth flight there! The fifth and last flight followed on Friday evening, leading us over the Cheshire Cat, a giant maize maze near Sieversdorf south of Kiel. On Sunday, we embarked on our way back home, [...]

It was indeed a sad moment when we learnt earlier this year that the Kieler Woche would be postponed to September and the Balloon Sail would be cancelled. But as the city of Kiel just couldn’t imagine their sailing event without balloons, we followed the invitation of the Ballonteam Ostsee and are now enjoying the [...]

With the summer slowly leaving, our most beautiful time of the year begins: In autumn, the thermals are not that strong any more, and we can fly all day again. The first flight of this kind took place just this week, 9:30 hours from Stuttgart to Pfaffenhofen/Ilm in our new “Stuttgarter Hofbräu” gas balloon. Oh [...]

Our next gas balloon flight with the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. turned out to cover almost the same distance as the last one! Again taking off from the launch site at the “Cannstatter Wasen”, winds gently pushed us eastwards, flying over Schorndorf, Aalen and Öttingen. The first landing took place near Spielberg, the final one just [...]

Of course, it didn’t take long until we took to the skies again back home! Wonderful fun flight with an awesome scenery and fantastic light. Thanks Thomas Köck from einfachabheben.de / Kubicek Balloons Deutschland for the additional photos! [...]

In the meantime, all balloon teams have returned home safely from the Italian International Balloon Grand Prix. Making our ways back to our everyday lives, our minds and hearts stay in the skies above Umbria, still dreaming of the wonderful times we had. Altogether, we spent over 15 hours in the air over the beautiful [...]

After two lazy mornings with no flights (too gusty conditions, but finally some time to sleep, yay!), we’re finally catching up with posting all the photos – so here are the pictures from flight five to eight! =) [...]

A balloon meeting, finally! We’re in Todi, Italy for the International Balloon Grand Prix, formerly known as the “Todi Sagrantino Cup” – and we’ve already done four lovely flights in the beautiful Umbrian countryside. Evening buffets, pool parties and a lot of friends, new and old, are making these two weeks a fantastic holiday. Watch [...]

Nice morning flight this Tuesday with our friends from Bavaria Ballonfahrten and einfachabheben.de. We’re so blessed to live in an area where we basically fall out of bed in the morning and find ourselves on the launch site! :-) [...]