Wow, this was a real treat! The mayor messaged Daniel one afternoon simply saying "If you want to go up in a balloon come and see me at the town hall in the morning". We knew multiple balloons would be taking off from behind the village castle in a couple of days as part of a tour of the region, so we went anticipating that they would be selling tickets on some of the balloons. We were actually being invited as guests of the village to go up in one of the montgolfiere (hot air balloons)!
Unfortunately the minimum age was 12 years old so the kids missed out (again great timing that Mum and Dad were here to look after them). We met outside the castle and were assigned a pilot. One of the other villagers then let us swap pilots to a team that spoke English, a very kind gesture (they must have seen us looking a bit lost). We flew with a team from Belgium who had driven here for the week for the balloon festival. We flew at about 10km per hour over to Jamestown (Selles-sur-Cher) and landed in a random field about 45 minutes after take off. The views were incredible, the experience like nothing we had done before and we felt so privileged to be there.
Wow, what an experience. Would like to do it one day, maybe for my 60th birthday, gives me 5 years to save and get ready for it
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