{"id":328570,"date":"2025-08-08T18:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328570\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:44:20","slug":"bristol-balloon-fiesta-shapes-take-to-the-sky-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328570\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Balloon Fiesta shapes take to the sky &#8211; in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dozens of hot air balloons have taken off to mark the start of the 47th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mass ascent at 06:20 BST on Friday saw balloons take off from Ashton Court, on the edge of Bristol, before landing in various spots towards Bath and around Keynsham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Ashton Court Estate for the event, which runs until Sunday, to watch balloons take to the skies and witness the iconic night glows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many avid watchers have sent in photos via WhatsApp of the balloons taking off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you want to send us photos of the balloons, WhatsApp us on <a href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send\/?phone=%2B448003134630&amp;text&amp;type=phone_number&amp;app_absent=0\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0800 313 4630, external<\/a>. Please remember to include your name and where you are from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can also follow our live coverage of the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cj3lxg137x3t\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of hot air balloons have taken off to mark the start of the 47th Bristol International Balloon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114994627779930720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}