The Gods of Winds can be generous around the Old year / New year transition, so we are usually able to head down to Cerknica and take some more kite aerial photos of this exceptional place. Because it’s never enough. And it’s never the same. So we honoured the tradition – and the first published … Read more
And thus yet another year of kites comes to a close. And what a year it was! The sheer numbers are well above our expectations laid out at the end of 2024 … We helped kids make over 1.500 kites! We were at 12 kite festivals all over the world, we had 23 kite aerial … Read more
Duality, that’s the word. The most vulgar tourism one can imagine (drunken stag parties of entitled overgrown children everywhere all the time) – and the most peaceful travelling through emerald rice terraces. Out.of-place “sport pubs” and neon-polluted “night clubs” – and the most intricately built temples. Four star concrete “all-inclusive” resorts with swimming pools and … Read more
So, you thought we’d forget this? The best kite festivals of the Summer? Forget Indonesia? Yeah, right. Here we go! This story started almost three years ago on a freshly harvested cotton field in Hubbali. Aji and Gregor were relaxing after they managed to convince the Slovenian trilobite to carry three Indonesian cobras into the … Read more
So we decided to visit Planina polje, the fascinating karst field southwest from Ljubljana to catch the Autumn colours that grace its edges, but we completely disregarded the Autumn rains that fell a couple of days before. The paths crisscrossing the Planina polje are off limits to cars (park at the edge and protect the … Read more
Sometimes we have nothing to report, no tale to tell. It happens. When there is no wind, there’s pretty much nothing we can do about it. Slovenia in general is … ehm, wind-challenged. And so are the best places here: for every great shot and for each successful kite aerial photography session there are tens … Read more
It’s so rare – too rare? – that a completely new word slides into your vocabulary. A delightful new word for a delightful thing? Even rarer. But it happens. Like a bird you never saw before flutters by and lands on a branch only for you to see, to admire, for it to bathe in … Read more
“Do I feel lucky?”– Harold Francis Callahan Days before the Creative Days of Faust Vrančić festival are the worst. Not only does every venture out of bed carry an inherent risk of breaking a leg or catching a disease (the world is a dangerous, hostile place), one has to take extra care of the loved … Read more
A long, long time ago there were the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and British Empires. Then a lot of things happened, and now there are Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, India, and the United Kingdom — among many other pieces of this long-lost, irrevocably shattered imperial puzzle. Andrea and Ľubica are imperialists at heart*, so they tried … Read more
Imagine: an autumn evening. It’s already dark – the night is again longer than the day. You sit down for a well deserved dinner, when your eyes catch a glimpse of something outside your window. It’s a monster. A creature of the night. And it is blinking. It has a special charm, flying kites at … Read more