Updates, Albuquerque Balloons, and Bristol's International Balloon Festival 2018

Problems
Albuquerque in America in autumn - Balloon Fiesta in the Fall
1 Am I in time for Albuquerque balloon Fiesta? What are the 2017 dates?
2 If yes, and if no, what else can I do in Albuquerque?
Bristol
3 When's the next British Balloon Festival?
4 What else can I do in Bristol, before, during or afterwards?

Answers

1 The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is at Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA October 7-15 2017. 

When you go onto their website you can see whether they still have any tickets for the day you choose. 

2 If not, you could watch from afar and visit the Balloon Museum. (See my previous posts.)

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Hey - I was thinking of inserting a row of stars to indicate a change of subject and I tapped on insert special characters and found these. I think they are the symbols for male and female but they look like balloons when they are small. How appropriate. So cute!

3 BALLOONS IN BRISTOL IN BRITAIN

If you are thinking about going to next year's balloon International in Bristol, England, the dates are Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th August 2018.

So, you could see balloons in Britain in Summer, in the Autumn or Fall in America.

4 Your trip to Bristol is to a very English place, famous for 

1 Bristol English. I bought the humorous local book Let Stalk Strine.

2 Banksy, the world's favourite graffiti artist, has decorated Bristol.

Here's an aerial view of the show ground, surrounded by trees.

 It is at Ashton Court Estate, Bristol.

What's international about it? The people. The companies sponsoring the balloons.

From the last show, here are pictures of 

The red Virgin balloon. 

Champagne Taittinger, from the region of Champagne, the town of Reims, in France. If you go to Reims you can pay to take timed tours at many Champagne houses in the busy summer season. Check in advance.  

Hardy's wines, established in 1853, run guided tours for groups of the winery and tell you about wines and spirits, such Bristol Cream Sherry. Sometimes, given notice, a winery which only taken group bookings can add you onto a larger group.

Balloons at Bristol. We have lift off!

See you next year!

www.bristolballoonfiesta.co.uk

www.visitbristol.co.uk 

tel:0333 321 0101

For more on Bristol see next post.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. See my other posts. Please share links to your favourite posts.