For this week’s writing prompt I’ve decided to feature a photo I took a few years ago at Bristol’s Balloon Fiesta. The gentleman in the balloon basket is Scottish ballooning pioneer Don Cameron of Cameron Balloons.

The ragged-looking balloon about to carry him away is the Bristol Belle, the world’s first modern balloon, which don and his buddies at Bristol Gliding Club constructed in the 1960s – it first took to the air in 1867!

There are countless directions you could take this story in – you could draw in the history of this ballooning legend and his first balloon, or you could disregard that and focus instead on what you see – an old man in the basket of a torn and frail-looking balloon about to set off on what may be their last adventure together…