Bristol Balloon Fiesta 12 August 2007

Alarm wakes us at 4.50am. Dress and drive to David Lloyd, park car and walk to Ashton Court and join the passengers assembled for the morning flight. The weather looks ok but there is rain coming in from the south-west. We need to take off ahead of it.

Mark helps with the inflation of the balloon and we take off at 6.40am about ten minutes ahead of the approaching cloud and rain.


We fly over the Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Avon Gorge and have clear views over Bristol.

We land at 7.20am in a field north of Bristol. We are in the "front" and so end up below those in the "back" when we land. We crawl out.

We help pack the ballon away while we wait for the keyholder from Bristol City Council to be got out of bed and come to unlock the gate to allow us to get out of the field.

Our maximum altitude during the flight was 645m.