Bristol’s International Balloon Fiesta: ‘This will go down in history”
Next years Bristol international balloon fiesta will run from Friday to the 8th of august until Sunday the 10th of August. The 46th fiesta this year stayed true to its constitution and remained free for the people of Bristol and saw loads of beautiful hot air balloons both on the ground and in the cities sky
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00:00Yeah it was it was absolutely fantastic and that Saturday afternoon and afternoon ascent of the
00:05night glow were definitely went down in Fiesta history. We had that perfect southwesterly wind
00:12that took 60 odd balloons straight over the city. Some great footage from Troopers Hill that you
00:19might have seen on TikTok and Instagram of balloons coming quite close to the crowd and
00:25everyone cheering. So it was really quite special and I think after you know there's been a lot of
00:29uncertainty about a lot of events in the UK but Fiesta's not been sort of alone in that and it's
00:38been great to you know remind everyone why this thing's so special and why it's so Bristol.
00:44And why is it so special?
00:47It's a I always wonder really. I think there's you know there's obviously something about the
00:53history of the whole of the whole event. It's you know for something to go for so long 46 years
00:59and when you put lots of them together like we did this weekend it just becomes even more magical
01:05and yeah lift spirits gives kids a lovely lovely warm feeling and yeah we hope we did the city proud.
01:13And this year was a massive success does that mean we will have a balloon fiesta next year as well
01:20hopefully for many more years?
01:21Well we certainly hope so. We've got a little bit more bean counting and spreadsheet calculations to
01:28work out. It is it's looking more promising and I think you know the good news is that we are
01:34we've made a significant shift into a good place for the fiesta but there's lots more work still
01:40to do and you know as we hurtle towards the 50th anniversary in 2028 you know we're starting to
01:46think about all the amazing things we could do to really make it a complete and utter belter.
01:52But I guess the one thing I'm I'm worried and concerned about now is how do we top this year?
01:58I mean that's a challenge.