A COUPLE from Austria have spoken about their remarkable discovery of a balloon in their village from a farm near Luton.
As reported in the Herald & Post, Robert Muller and his girlfriend Tamara Temmel, both 22, found the Woodside Animal Farm balloon in their village of Wettmannstatten in Styria, south east Austria.
The balloon had travelled 930 miles without popping.
Mr Muller, a salesman, said: “The balloon was in the grass in a field. My girlfriend went to pick it up and saw it was from England. It was a bit of a shock. We thought that it was far away from England here. It’s amazing that it travelled over the sea and over the mountains.”
The couple sent an email to Woodside Farm to let them know they had found the balloon. Staff at Woodside confirmed it was the furthest one of their balloons, which are given to children visiting the farm, has been known to travel.