Bristol Balloon FestivalThought this one was coming in for toast and coffee
By Bjs
- 11 Aug, 2017
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In all we saw about 60 of the 100+ launched this morning aroun 7 am. Tonight they won't get off the ground we have low cloud and rain
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Jen
Yes Cameron Balloons Manufacture many of the ones you see flying,they employ about 20 people making them
12 Aug, 2017
Brian, thought you were going to tell us you were in the balloon.
12 Aug, 2017
Thanks Brian, glad I remembered right. It was about 30 years ago that I 1st rented in Bedminster then bought my 1st house in Clevedon.
12 Aug, 2017
Green finger did go up in one many years ago but was not over impressed I think mainly because some months earlier I had tried paragliding off a speedboat in Cyprus and that was exhilarating.
12 Aug, 2017
That's a great photo! Paragliding? Not for me thanks I can't swim, but hot air ballooning? yes please.
12 Aug, 2017
Tom & I went up few years ago above the clouds over a mile high - it was amazing gliding silently, windless over flocks of birds.
13 Aug, 2017
Oh, Gf that sounds wonderful!
13 Aug, 2017
Green Finger
They have a height limit well below mile high as they are on the flight path to Bristol international airport ,where they take off is only about five miles from the airport.
13 Aug, 2017
Our pilot did say it's not usual to go so high but he needed to find a current, he said we could now claim to have joined the mile high club...... so I did (some days later my son explained to me what that was, innocent that I am I hadn't realised it was a joke)
13 Aug, 2017
I think I saw this on TV Brian was there a very old one of the first hot air balloons there ? Ha ha Mari I hope you didn't go round telling too many people ...
13 Aug, 2017
Unfortunately I did, Amy; my exuberance knew no bounds.
13 Aug, 2017
Lol Green finger........
14 Aug, 2017
lol the mile high club! :D :D
17 Aug, 2017
Well I did go a mile up anyway, lol
17 Aug, 2017
But you didn't do the thing that qualifies for the club :D Well, not up there, anyway. I don't want to know if you did anywhere else :D
17 Aug, 2017
No, Pamela, I can assure you we did not, I just unwittingly told everyone we knew that we had. No wonder I got some surprised looks.
17 Aug, 2017
lollol
17 Aug, 2017
Hilarious......GF. as bad as us booking into a swingers hotel!!
19 Aug, 2017
Oh NO, Angela, did you really!
20 Aug, 2017
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Gosh I remember them from when I used to live in Bristol. Think there was a Rupert the bear one, one year. I seem to remember that there was a factory in Bristol that made them?
11 Aug, 2017