{"id":333165,"date":"2025-08-10T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333165\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:59:11","slug":"hot-air-balloons-fly-over-bristol-for-international-balloon-fiesta-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333165\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot air balloons fly over Bristol for International Balloon Fiesta | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of hot air <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/balloons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balloons<\/a> have filled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/skies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skies<\/a> above <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bristol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city<\/a>\u2019s annual fiesta.<\/p>\n<p>It is the largest event of its kind in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a>, taking place over the weekend in Bristol to mark the 47th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/footage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Footage<\/a> shows around 90 balloons of all shapes and sizes floating above Bristol on Sunday (August 10).<\/p>\n<p>The activity has been part of Bristol\u2019s culture for many years, with the first recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flight<\/a> in the city dating back to the 18th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of hot air balloons have filled the skies above Bristol for the city\u2019s annual fiesta. It is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-333165","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\/115004595584502953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333165","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=333165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}