In the sky over Rocamadour
From the foot of this magnificent medieval town, built on three levels on the side of a cliff and a major pilgrimage site, around thirty hot-air balloons take off. Their number varies from year to year, as do their shapes and colours, but the show is always the same. There are two take-offs a day, one at 8am and the other at 5pm, because the balloons need special conditions to take off. The cool of the morning and the setting sun of the evening, combined with a light wind, provide these ideal conditions.
Every corner of the city was taken by storm. A crowd of spectators occupies every square metre of pavements, terraces, rocks and cliffs to get the best spot to admire the show and take the best shot to immortalise the balloons that swell and then climb noiselessly from the bottom of the city to the sky, where they fly away, at the whim of the wind, towards an unknown destination...
We were lucky enough to see one of the hot-air balloons flying over our guest house in 2016, and its silhouette above the Moulin made for a wonderful souvenir photo.
