Airborne

Just before I'm off again to another weekend packed with soothing boat rides, I hereby provide you with a nice set of pictures to enjoy, accompanied by only a small preface:

Imagine you're planning a hot air balloon ride on a day with a brilliant blue sky, both of which actually happened to me yesterday morning. This is England though, so the blue sky soon wrapped itself in its dressing gown (with lots of gray stains) and started taking a shower. And again. And again.

There's a saying about a region of France which goes "En Bretagne il fait beau plusieurs fois par jour." ("The weather's fine in Bretagne several times a day."), but the UK manages quite well to keep up the same flexibility.

Take this photo tour if you want to know if my story ended well!

Oh, this is for Peter: The square fields in the west of Oswestry are waterworks providing Liverpool with fresh water. The flat hill in the north is a fort from the Iron Age. The people who once lived there put wooden walls around it to defend themselves and only kept a small opening. Must have been quite a cozy village kind of way of living.

If you ever happen to be in Shropshire and want to do a balloon flight, I can truly recommend Espiritu Balloon Flights. They made the trip to be the wonderful and enjoyable experience that it was.