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
It’s ok to brag, they say, if you have something to brag about. And we do! 🙂 When we were striving to get KAP Jasa – kite team Slovenia recognised as a NGO working in public interest, people who were to approve our status were a bit baffled. What are kites? To which category should … Read more
It was a rare moment, a perfect alignment that almost never happens. Three wind apps; the illustrious Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat, Hungarian meteo service; EMFCW and EUMETSAT, and even the Slovenian ARSO, plus all good and bad weather sites across the internets were all saying the exact same thing: Wind is from the south-southeast, 13 km/h. … Read more
This is the the second article 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
“I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.”– Pippi Longstocking Marjan Marinšek was the managing director of the Cultural Centre in Velenje, Slovenia. Astrid Lingren was … well, Astrid Lindgren. Marjan and Astrid were friends. In the late eighties Astrid brought Pippi Longstocking to Velenje – … Read more
(This is the first 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 forštats: Saint Peter’s, Poljane, Carlstadt, Trnovo, Krakovo, Gradišče, and Capuchins’ forštat. This one is about Saint Peter’s.) This kite aerial photography session started … Read more
This KAP session started rather innocuously … It was a somewhat sunny day at Ljubljana Marshes; the wind was nice, the bugs and mosquitos were active, the swallows were chasing them around the sky, the crops were blissfully ripening. A typical middle-augustian Saturday afternoon. We were at a place we rarely visit – because we … Read more