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99 Luftballons
13/08/2016; There would be mass ascents at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta on Thursday morning and evening, and on Saturday morning and evening.
The ones on Thursday were already cancelled because of the hard wind, and so was the mass ascent on Saturday morning. Then the estate where the fiesta was held turned out to be nothing more than a huge funfair and food shed, and with all of that in mind I went to the observatory of Clifton Suspension Bridge on Saturday late in the afternoon anyway.
At 18:00, when the mass ascent was supposed to start, nothing happened again, so I told myself to pack my stuff and go if nothing is still happening at 18:30. However shortly before 18:30 some people standing next to me said it was about to start, based on updates on Twitter. So I decided to stay for a bit longer.
Nothing was happening at 18:45, at 19:00 still nothing was happening, other than that I started needing a loo. But on 19:15, it finally started. Still not all 100 balloons, about 40 took off in the end, and unfortunately the wind wasn't favourable enough for the balloons to head in my direction, but I'm glad enough with what I saw.
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99 Luftballons
13/08/2016; There would be mass ascents at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta on Thursday morning and evening, and on Saturday morning and evening.
The ones on Thursday were already cancelled because of the hard wind, and so was the mass ascent on Saturday morning. Then the estate where the fiesta was held turned out to be nothing more than a huge funfair and food shed, and with all of that in mind I went to the observatory of Clifton Suspension Bridge on Saturday late in the afternoon anyway.
At 18:00, when the mass ascent was supposed to start, nothing happened again, so I told myself to pack my stuff and go if nothing is still happening at 18:30. However shortly before 18:30 some people standing next to me said it was about to start, based on updates on Twitter. So I decided to stay for a bit longer.
Nothing was happening at 18:45, at 19:00 still nothing was happening, other than that I started needing a loo. But on 19:15, it finally started. Still not all 100 balloons, about 40 took off in the end, and unfortunately the wind wasn't favourable enough for the balloons to head in my direction, but I'm glad enough with what I saw.
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