11th Balloon Meeting at Bad Griesbach

As every year, we visited the Balloon Meeting at Bad Griesbach also in 2004, though the weather mostly showed us its nasty side this year.

Friday evening was the only chance for the "big" balloons to fly. The night glow and the fireworks could also take place that evening.

Saturday and Sunday were mostly dominated by rain, but we model balloonists could use a hole in the clouds on Saturday evening to show the audience at least some "small" balloons.

Despite the bad weather, there was no danger to get bored - the thermal baths of Bad Griesbach, the "Moststüble" and a number of bars kept us in quite a fine mood :-)

Even our go-kart race had to be rescheduled due to the rain, so we did that on Sunday :-)

From left to right: Werner and Matthias Schlegel, Bastian, Jessica and Wolfgang Schwarz from the Balloon Club of Landshut.

As we got to know afterwards, a report about our launch on Friday was published in a local newspaper - Thanks to the Passau New Press that we are allowed to show it here.

It is, of course, in German, but if you like to read it anyway, click on the article to enlarge it.