It was in 1993 on this very day, the 14th of August, when I fulfilled myself my biggest dream to date: My first flight in a balloon. Coming from a family without any background in ballooning, things hadn’t been too easy for me, and I had put aside the money for the flight all by [...]

After a wonderful week of ballooning, we’re almost home – tired but happy :-) Greetings to all our (new) friends we couldn’t say goodbye to in person… and see you soon, somewhere in this crazy world of ballooning ;-) [...]

Morning mood on our last flight on Sunday… with a sunflower, of course! :-) [...]

It doesn’t often happen that we’re lacking words when flying… but when we do, you can bet it was special! ;-) [...]

After the beautiful flight on Thursday evening, the wind speed increased again, forcing the LMAB organisation to cancel all flights on Friday morning, Friday evening and Saturday morning. So finally, we found the time to have a great party with our nice campsite neighbours from Slovenia… with a magnificent sunset, lots of beer, delicious snacks [...]

Some pictures from the flight on Thursday evening! Just one more magical experience above the fields of Chambley… :-) [...]

What the hell is he doing there? We don’t know, but he’s gonna come up big time one day… Note: This was in fact featured in the French movie “Party Girl” one year later ;-) [...]

The last 24 hours have just been amazing! On Wednesday afternoon, we had a stroll through the town centre of Metz, including a visit to the impressive cathedral. In the evening, we could finally resume flying, with the new world record of 408 balloons taking off within one hour from the air base of Chambley. [...]

Yes yes yes, one more flight! :-) [...]

What a phenomenal view! =) [...]