{"id":329581,"date":"2025-08-09T03:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329581\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T03:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:48:20","slug":"bristol-balloon-fiesta-watch-the-friday-mass-ascent-and-night-glow-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329581\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Balloon Fiesta &#8211; watch the Friday mass ascent and night glow again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We love coming to Bristol\u2019published at 19:19 British Summer Time 8 August<\/p>\n<p>19:19 BST 8 August<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3fbe8ef1-f419-4836-8dbc-e174d0a4c4a3.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Tess De La Mare<\/strong><br \/>Reporting from Ashton Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as balloons, the fiesta is also all about food. Dozens of food trucks surround the site for those feeling peckish between events, and vendors get a good view of the action too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caroline Morley, who runs her Strawberro coated strawberry business with colleague Jay Graham at different events all summer, said: \u201cWe love coming to Bristol. We were here a few weeks ago for the harbour festival and now we\u2019re back again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were here bright an early for the mass assent, and have been enjoying the attractions in the arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a bit quiet this afternoon, but we think business will pick up this afternoon for the night glow,\u201d Ms Morley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked what was special about the fiesta, she said: \u201cIt\u2019s just a really good family event. There\u2019s lots going on and it\u2019s a great day out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jay Graham is on the left standing next to Caroline Morley. They are both wearing red aprons and are standing isnide of their strawberry business food truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1a1a008b-a354-42b4-ba91-aa7a6f7514d8.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1210\" height=\"908\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8216;We love coming to Bristol,&#8217; says business owner Caroline Morley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018We love coming to Bristol\u2019published at 19:19 British Summer Time 8 August 19:19 BST 8 August Tess De&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-329581","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\/114996766725789034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329581","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=329581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}