6th Balloon Meeting at Tegernsee

For four years already, the model balloons are an inherent part of the Tegernsee Balloon Meeting, and this shouldn't be any different in 2006. Seven model balloonists and about 40 big balloons had come to the "Tegernseer Tal Montgolfiade".

The night glow at Tegernsee Castle on Wednesday evening marked the start of the event. Matthias and Bastian, of course, were participating with their model balloons.

On Thursday morning, the balloons took off from Bad Wiessee for the first time. A special attraction were the two airsphips from Linde and Ratiopharm, which majestically hovered above the snowy village.

For Thursday afternoon, the organizers around Peter Rie had planned something special: We hiked up to an alpine hut, had a fine "Brotzeit", lots of music and even more wheat beer, and then walked back down to the valley with torches.

Group picture with a lady: Matthias (middle) and Basti (right) swaying and having fun

Though the party afterwards at Bad Wiessee took until the wee hours of the morning, the pilots felt fit enough to fly on Friday - some of them earlier, others a bit later... ;-)

Matthias could enjoy the magnificient view over Lake Tegernsee from Birgit Reichart's "Linde"-Balloon...

...while Bastian was lucky enough to fly with Leo Ersfeld from SCHROEDER fire ballons with the big cat balloon.

Bye, bye: This fellow obviously didn't like it with us in the basket. Sure - he's a sky diver and loves the fast fall rather than the slow flight.

The cat with Basti and Leo on board has landed safely.

Also on Friday evening, we had great fun at the party in Bad Wiessee. Unfortunately, we can't publish any photos from that... the are definitely too wicked! ;-)

Penguin in danger?!? After we had entertained the spectators with our model balloons on Saturday, our Penguin and Bastian's "D-OABS" formed the setting for the fire show in the evening.

But don't panic: Our bird of course survived the spectacle ;-)

On Sunday, the model balloons once more were a special attraction for young and old. After the goodbye party, we set out on our way home again - dead tired, but sure to have experienced an absolutely fantastic balloon meeting.

We want to say thanks to the organizers and sponsors of the "Tegernseer Tal Montgolfiade" - and we're already looking forward to next year's event! :-)))

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