Hot Air Ballooning in South East Cornwall

Photographs taken 2005

An evening taken up thoroughly pleasurably, chasing Hot Air Balloons across the countryside! Two of our guests, Phil and Chris, had booked a Virgin Balloon flight from nearby St.Ive, near Liskeard and on the southern fringes of Bodmin Moor. The wind was a little finicky, blowing northwest first, and then southwest later - but that seems to be the fun of ballooning, and choosing the best field to launch from, with least urban obstacles in the way! Launching was courtesy of a friendly Rilla Mill farmer, and we were there to watch...