An alarm worth setting
At Lake Bled, Lauren took the early start further: a hot-air balloon above the lake, its island and castle, with the Julian Alps beyond. She names the flight as a highlight of her travels.
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There are mornings when getting out of bed feels like the hardest part of the plan. At Lake Bled, Lauren Juliff chose one with a particularly good reason to get up: a sunrise flight in a hot-air balloon.
From the basket above the lake, the familiar landmarks took on another shape. There was the island church below, the castle set high on its cliff and the Julian Alps stretching beyond them. Instead of walking toward a viewpoint, she watched the whole landscape come into view from the air.
Lauren’s own account includes the flight among the highlights of her travels. It is easy to understand the appeal of giving one morning its own plan, especially somewhere already worth seeing from the ground. The alarm was a small part of it. The view was the reason.
One morning, another perspective
The lake was already there. Lauren went up to see it differently.
How this story was made
Lauren’s accounts, retold in our words
This is an original editorial retelling based on Lauren Juliff’s publicly available writing. It is not a FIBI interview or an endorsement by Lauren.
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