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Tuesday August 19 I woke
up at six and peeked outside. It was foggy. It remained foggy until nine.
Useful information to a competition director.
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| KEILA TOWN HALL ON FOGGY TUESDAY MORNING |
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The first part of the day was spent in fetching the prize trailer from a sponsor, collecting all necessary things from Alo's office and from the town hall basement, loading everything in two cars, meeting two bigshots in Tallinn at the company that sells propane to us, and driving to Viljandi, two hours to south. My trusted senior officials, Deividas Pinkevicius and Darius Mikalajunas had arrived by night bus from Vilnius, Lithuania. After settling down in our headquarters,
the Culture Center of Viljandi, all four of us embarked on expedition with
the purpose of locating the place to be used as our propane refueling site
(hot air balloons carry about 80–90 kg of propane as fuel). In Tallinn
we were given a map with a star that located the place. We are used to
taking maps seriously and had been careless enough not to ask for a name
or address or phone number. First we found just a ruined factory, then
we found a gas station where nobody knew about us or ballooning. By phoning
the source of the misleading star we learned that the right place was gas
station Traffic Oil, which we had passed many times. A smooth start...
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| VIEW FROM THE ORDER OF BRETHREN OF THE SWORD STRONGHOLD ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF TOWN. FOR THIS VIEW ESTONIAN TOURISTS COME TO VILJANDI. |
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At dusk Valdur took us up a hill on southern edge of town. Impressive ruins of a medieval castle and a view that in Estonia is exceptional. Remains of another bygone military presence. [WEDNESDAY] [ALL DAYS] |
