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 [...]

From time to time, we visit the Kubicek balloon factory at Brno, Czech Republic – and often we even get to fly there! :-) Last weekend, on Sunday afternoon, conditions were nice at Kubicek Castle at Radesin, some 50 kilometers north-west of Brno – the perfect opportunity to try out some new Kubicek stuff in [...]

It’s been a fantastic weekend of flying here! Wonderful spring weather, many many friends and the big opening party of Thomas Köck’s new Kubicek Balloons Deutschland base on Sunday – what more could you wish for? :-)   [...]

Yesterday, we were on German television SWR in the show “Kaffee oder Tee” (“coffee or tea”) featuring our latest gas balloon flight to Spain! :-) Click here to watch the interview: https://www.ardmediathek.de/…/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzEx…/ or here to watch the entire show: https://www.ardmediathek.de/…/Y3JpZDov…/sendung-vom-26-03-19 [...]

Spring is coming, snow has almost completely gone and it’s getting warmer from day to day! We’re saying goodbye to a great winter with some really enjoyable flights – one of my favourites is surely the one from January 19th, when we launched from Oberstaufen and flew back home in an easterly direction. Great sunny [...]

We’re just too busy at the moment! So here are some pictures from one week ago… lovely winter flying with Bavaria Ballonfahrten and Kubicek Balloons Deutschland alongside the all new BB120P “Allgäuer Büble Bier” balloon. There are worse things than working on a Saturday… ;-)   [...]