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Tagged With: balloon flight

Warwick Castle

I have previously mentioned our new launch site at St Nicholas Park in Warwick.  Russell did his first flight from there just the other day and managed to catch a quick piccie of the castle from the balloon.  STUNNING!  What a treat he and the passengers had on this evening flight with such beautiful light.  … Continue reading »

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New launch site

From the beginning of April we will be scheduling flights from the beautiful St Nicholas Park right beside Warwick Castle!  The launch site should prove to be very popular considering the spectacular views and photo opportunities passengers will get upon take-off.  With Warwick being so accessible from both the north and south on the M40 … Continue reading »

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New launch sites for our 3rd year with Virgin!

We are now entering our 3rd season flying the Virgin Balloon and Russell having checked out on his C group last year will be taking on a bigger balloon later in the 2014 season.  With a bigger balloon comes a bigger franchise area, which is great news.  So in addition to our current launch sites; … Continue reading »

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Mondovi, Italy

We  finally managed a ballooning holiday.  With 2 small children overseas holidays are something of a distant memory, but with some on-hand babysitting we have managed to bring our pride and joy G-PMSL to Italy for her first winter ballooning meet.  With only 1000 miles to travel each way we left UK with a team … Continue reading »

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Lovely to get a winter flight in

We took the opportunity to put together a flight today from Stratford Upon Avon.  It was a bit on the cold side but with a few layers we were set to be just fine.  I was super thrilled today as this was my first flight since April 2011 – which I know sounds rather spoilt … Continue reading »

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Autumnal flying:

With the official start to Autumn upon us we look forward to some more stunning balloon flights.  This is my favourite time of the year for flying.  Warm and rich colours reaching far across the countryside with the landscape looking well settled in.  The spring is also awesome for colour but I always think the … Continue reading »

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Amazing testimonial and Blog post…..

“Hi Russell, Just wanted to say thank you to you and the team at High Road Balloons for the hot balloon ride experience that you provided for me and my girlfriend, Nina.  The experience was thoroughly enjoyable and is certainly an experience that will be memorable for the years to come…….Also, I posted a blog … Continue reading »

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Our new joy….

After many years of hopes and dreams, well perhaps 9 to be precise, we have bought a new balloon!!  Hurrah. We have had some lovely balloons over the years and have enjoyed flying each one of them: But we are thrilled to bits to be the proud owners of custom built G-PMSL: If you see … Continue reading »

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Nice media coverage….

Russell did a lovely flight the other day and wrote into the Virgin Balloon Flights office to tell them about his wonderful sighting of the abandoned village Middle Ditchford, near Shipston on Stour.  The Cotswold News have decided to print the fantastic story with a couple of photos too :)  Sometimes these wonderful things happen … Continue reading »

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Wow! Hello March

It’s the first weekend of March, the first weekend of the ballooning season and what a weekend!  We got 3 flights up and away from Stratford, Shipston and Cheltenham.  Amazing and so many happy passengers.  Please, let’s keep our fingers crossed for more days like this in spring and let’s hope 2013 will be a … Continue reading »

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