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! :-) [...]

Are you familiar with the mobile game “Pokémon GO”? It’s one of the first (and certainly the most famous) mobile games that blends reality and virtuality, letting you hunt virtual monsters (Pokémons) in the real world. Team Rocket, kind of the antagonists in the game, try to steal back the Pokémons from the players. To [...]

Wonderful gas balloon flight with the Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart e.V. last weekend from Stuttgart to Weissenburg in Bavaria. Good to finally sniff some hydrogen again! ;-) [...]

On Thursday, June 25th, we were invited by Kubicek Balloons Deutschland to take part in the inauguration flight of their all new H&H Flüssiggas balloon – oh and what a wonderful evening that was! =) The new 6000m³ Kubicek BB60Z features inner silver coating in the top of the balloon for reduced fuel consumption and [...]

In mid June, we spent a nice week at Flaggl’s Apfelwirt at Stubenberg in Styria, Austria. Apart from relaxed countryside tours, we also did three balloon flights to explore the nice landscape from a higher perspective. If you’re ever on holidays in the Graz region, make sure to to drop by! Many thanks to the [...]

A visit of my parents last week was a welcome opportunity to get our 3000m³ Kubicek out of the bag again! 18 years, 620 hours and still flying exceptionally well. What a nice evening! :-) [...]

Lake Schwaltenweiher, just a stone’s throw away from our hometown, is certainly one of the most idyllic ponds in our region. The north-easterly winds of the last weeks invited us to do some evening fly-ins to the surroundings of Seeg, and this was probably the most beautiful one! :-) [...]

Unfortunately, as almost any other events this year, the Gas Balloon Cup at Gersthofen (originally scheduled for this weekend) has been cancelled. Nevertheless, we decided to take off from there last Thursday, with the plan to fly home to Seeg with our Gitzenweiler Hof Bodensee Balloon – and that worked very well, with a landing [...]