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This post is not about yet another Eurozone emergency summit, it's about hot air balloons! If this sounds somewhat interesting to you, you're spoiled for choice this weekend: there's not only the World Balloon Trophy in Echternach (with the spectacular "Nightglow" and fireworks Saturday night), but also the much larger Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons near Metz (where a new world record was set when 343 balloons took off on Wednesday).

Update August 7, 2011: If you haven't had enough yet, there's also the MoselBallonFiesta near Trier from August 19 to 21.