• Balloon tethered to the ground in front of a modern glass building
    Happy Place Happy Space,  Paris

    Up, up and away in Paris

    Of course if you want to see Paris from a high viewpoint you can do as many tourists do and go up the Eiffel Tower. Or you can stand on the steps in front of the Sacré Coeur on the hill of Montmartre. And once those obvious tourist boxes are ticked, there are still plenty of other options.

  • Balloon over a desert landscape
    Deserts,  Lens-Artists,  Morocco

    Reaching for the sky again in Africa

    Once you have been in a hot air balloon, and loved the experience as I did, you will seize any opportunity to fly again. Leonardo da Vinci had it right, even though he himself had never flown, when he said, 'Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.'