Worcester Park balloon floats hundreds of miles to France
6:00am Saturday 25th August 2012 in News By Jamie Henderson
Balloon floats hundreds of miles to France
A balloon released during a Diamond Jubilee street party in Worcester Park has been found hundreds of miles away in the Alsace region of France.
Maryse Doux-Boussiron, who found it last month, informed residents that the balloon, with a tag bearing a return address, landed safely in the garden of a friend of hers in the town of Bains les Bains, in the Vosges region of France near the German border.
The balloon, which had completed a journey of around 400 miles, was one of dozens launched in a balloon race by children in Longfellow Road on June 4 as part of the street's Jubilee celebrations.
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