CHATEAU D’OEX, Switzerland, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Tucked in a valley surrounded by snow-capped peaks, the sleepy Swiss city of Chateau d’Oex emerges from its slumber to host a hot-air balloon pageant that pulls hundreds of spectators and flying lovers.
Throughout a nine-day celebration ending on Sunday, 60 brightly-coloured sizzling balloons from 15 nations will soar by means of the sky over the valley, recognized for winds that make for notably good flying.
“The particular factor about flying in Chateau d’Oex is that we will take off within the morning, fly in a single course … and within the afternoon the wind simply turns round,” Thomas Spildooren, a sizzling air balloon pilot, mentioned from his balloon’s gondola on Tuesday.
Some sizzling air balloon flights needed to be cancelled on Monday resulting from unusually robust winds however festivities totally resumed the subsequent day.
“Each hassle in each day life simply appears so small whenever you go up within the air,’ Spildooren mentioned. “You go along with the wind, you waft.”
Reporting by Denis Balibouse; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Modifying by Tomasz Janowski
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