Hot Air Ballooning

[audbarn]

Does anyone know if there is somewhere in department 17 the gives hot air balloon flights. (montgolfier)

It's my husband's 60th this year and I know he would absolutely love it.

[Alex H]

Try here

http://www.portail-montgolfiere.com/france/

or Google translatified

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.portail-montgolfiere.com%2Ffrance%2F&act=url

Seems this one is near you ?

http://www.atlanticmontgolfiere.com/

[Dave&Olive]

hi ok

           Do not know how far inland you are in 17  but there is one not far from us in 79  might do you look here

  http://www.clesse79.fr/commune_clesse79_english.html

                 Dave

[Loiseau]

Hello Audbarn, and welcome to the forum.

I have been in a balloon over the Vendee with this outfit:

http://www.la-montgolfiere.com/mongolfiere.php

which also covers Deux-Sevres, and it was a great experience.

We were lucky, and the flight happened on the day booked, whereas the pilot had had to put off lots of other people in earlier weeks because of bad meteo. It was magical in the post-dawn light, wafting over the red-roofed villages as kids were walking to school; and everybody waves to you. It's delightfully hands-on, in that we helped to hold the balloon open as it inflated, and afterwards had to give a hand folding it up.

It wasn't exactly "champagne flight" style - which I found rather endearing. Once all was packed away, our pilot - Damien - produced a folding table which he covered with a decorative tea-towel. Then he opened a thermos of black coffee which we sipped along with some slices of "industrial" Vendee brioche !

Angela

Angela