Balloons are in the air...

The hot air balloon festival of Château-d'Oex has started and until next weekend you will be able to see many, many balloons adorning our mountain skylines. Indeed if the wind blows right you might end up with a few in your back garden, as we did on Saturday afternoon. For the full program click here but make sure not to miss the special shaped balloons display always around lunchtime, and the evening night-glow event on Friday January 29 at 18:58 (don't ask us why it is not at 19:00...) After the jump a few more pics, one of them showing the value of a good satnav system: balloon support teams who didn't quite know how to reach the fields where their balloons were touching down.... quite amusing...