Life goes on! ;-) And instead of flying over endless landscapes of sand, we’re now enjoying the last days of winter in our beautiful Allgäu. No less spectacular, yet so much more familiar! ;-) Thank you Daniela and Harald from Ballonteam Himmelsriesen for your beautiful pictures! :-)   [...]

In the meantime, we and most of the other teams of the 4th Tunisian Balloons Festival have returned home, extremely disappointed, but safe and sound. Some teams have stayed in Marseille on their own expenses, hoping the Tunisian organisers will get things straight and book spaces for the next ferry on Sunday, March 18th. We [...]

It is with great shock and consternation we had to learn that we have all been betrayed. No ferry has been booked for us. The organiser of the Tunisian Balloons Festival, Raji Ben Abdelmalek, will have to clarify in the following days what went wrong. For the moment, 40 balloon teams are stranded in Marseille. [...]

On the road again! Not without visiting the Montgolfier monument one more time in the morning, of course ;-) We even saw two hot air balloons gently hovering over the town. Shouldn’t have emptied the cylinders for the ferry at home! :-D   [...]

It’s a little town well known among balloonists: Annonay in the Département of Ardèche, France, where the brothers Joseph and Etienne de Montgolfier discovered the lighter-than-air principle back in 1783. And as it lies close to our route to Marseille, we decided to have a stopover on our long way to Tunisia. The statue of [...]

We have left the beautiful Allgäu this morning and are now crossing Switzerland. Tonight, we will stay in a little town in France on the route to Marseille… can you guess where? ;-) [...]

The weather surely could have been better yesterday afternoon at the Frankenballoncup near Nuremberg… but it was a nice flight and an enjoyable event nevertheless! Thank you Frankenballon e.V. for your great hospitality!   [...]

On February 15th, we managed an amazing flight over the Alps to Italy with two balloons! :-) Taking off at Bad Feilnbach near Rosenheim, we soon hit the speedy winds in FL170 and enjoyed a magnificent colourful morning sky. We had a terrific view of the Dolomites with the rising sun in our back, while [...]

…with freelance journalist Adelheid Wanninger! The passionate traveller was with us for one of our flights at the Kaiserwinkl Alpin Ballooning and has now published her photos and a nicely written report on her website www.lastsecrets.de. Definitely worth a read! :-) [...]

Last week, we had two fabulous days at the Kaiserwinkl Alpin Ballooning event at Kössen, Austria – this nicely organised balloon meeting is just worth a visit every year! :-) Two wonderful flights – one aboard my own ballon, one alongside it in one of the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. – the famous ‘outdoor evening’ and [...]