Bristol Balloon Fiesta

Well, like I said in my last blog, I was really keen to see the balloons at the fiesta which took place at Ashton Court in Bristol. We were pretty busy at the weekend, I was out on Friday night celebrating my birthday with work friends and we had friends to stay over on Saturday night so time was limited. But I was determined
to go so yesterday chap and I got up before sunrise at 4am to travel the 12 miles into Bristol to watch the early morning 'mass-launch'.

I don't know how many balloons went up but the announcer said that 95 balloons had launched the previous morning. It was magical and I have to say the highlight of my summer so far! Breathtaking.



After catching up on some sleep after the fiesta (we were home by 8.30am!) we went to Bath as a family for the afternoon. We had a picnic in the park and Chap chased the pigeons! P and I lived in Bath for a few years and we always like to go back and re-visit it every now and again. Its nice to view it as a tourist would do on occasion!