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  • The European Balloon Festival. Shot of the sky from below, with many balloons silhouetted in the background. The foreground shows a balloon with the Catalan flag.
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    TRAVEL | 22nd European Balloon Festival, Igualada, Spain

    July 14, 2018 /

    The 22nd European Balloon Festival, held in Igualada (Spain) was easily one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. There is just something so fascinating about seeing huge man-made globes of air rise off the ground and begin to float away, hanging on the horizon as if it were magic. I have wanted to ride in a hot air balloon for a while. My grandma loved balloon rides, and I can imagine why. Watching the temporary inhabitants of the balloon baskets grin in helpless exhilaration as they watched us become ant-like below them made clear that the experience was worth any fear that it might entail. Did you…

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