A strange stone structure on a strange hill. What could that be? This rather remote spot in Ravni Kotari, northwest of Zadar and south of Nin, at the north-western edge of Dalmatia, has accumulated so many stories that trying to unravel them all feels slightly unfair to the poor little hill. There are Iron Age … Read more
“Do you have those colourful crepe paper rolls?”“Sure, how many do you need?”“All of them!” This dialogue was repeated in all six discount stores we visited. We robbed four Chinese shops of every spool of thread they had. The people at Bauhaus probably thought we were building a hotel after seeing all the bamboo roll … Read more
This is the the third instalment in the series of kite aerial stories about the forštats (Vorstadts, faubourgs) of Ljubljana; now integral parts of the city that were built just outside of city walls. Ljubljana has seven of them: Saint Peter’s, Poljane, Carlstadt, Trnovo, Krakovo, Gradišče, and Capuchins’ forštat. The first one was about Saint … Read more
So, a solar eclipse was to happen, and as we always want to fly kites in unusual places and at unusual times, a solar eclipse flight was perfect for our interests. Unlike some, we did not travel to faraway lands like Spain to experience totality. Of course, a 100% eclipse is a completely different natural … Read more
Lake Cerknica. an intermittent lake which – as the terminus technicus suggests, and as you can see – isn’t always there. Summer is a tough time for the lake that is so magnificent in spring, mysterious in autumn, and ice-bound in winter. This marvel of Nature can cover almost thirty square kilometres at its greatest … Read more
Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine– Saint Marinus Land versus sea. Barren limestone versus fertile flysch. Forest versus stone. History versus bliss. Saints versus fiends. Light versus darkness. A locus of opposites jutting out into the Kvarner Bay in the northeastern Adriatic, a two-faced island. It almost touches the mainland, lying barely a nautical mile … Read more
WOOOOOOOOOOW!!!– everyone It was but a dream. Yet it was perfectly, unbelievably real. A kite workshop we could only dream of was happening right there in front of us, under the watchful eyes of Žuža and Žare, deep in the adrenaline forest of Lopar on Rab Island, Croatia. Unlike our never-ending, rolling, chaotic, death metal … Read more
Om nom nom nom nom …– trees in the Maribor City Park We just can’t help ourselves. We are like that scorpion who stings the frog carrying it across the stream: it’s in our nature. Long ago we stopped pretending that this time our kite workshop would be a relaxing, fun, well-organized affair, with a … Read more
A kite festival with perfect weather, perfect winds, and the perfect team? You know, the one where everything goes up effortlessly, all the flying monsters are airborne, the lines have absolutely no intention of tangling, and a weary kite flyer can finally sit down, relax, and crack open a cold one with a bunch of … Read more
Yeah, flying above the Ljubljana Marshes again. But this time we were in a place we have rarely visited over the past few years, because this target on the western fringe of the Marshes is difficult, hidden and elusive. After five or six unsuccessful expeditions, we had more or less given up. Yet the place … Read more