A great Calvin and Hobbes strip (almost all of them are great, but this one is really exceptional) shows the main characters chilling on a meadow under an intense blue summer sky, with Hobbes commenting that the sky looks really pretty, when Calvin suddenly declares that it “is too blue” and that it “needs some … Read more
It’s been a long time … the summer is never a good kite flying season, with the oppressive heat, with the air either standing still or whirling like a dervish, with storms springing up from nowhere in a matter of minutes. So when a semi-acceptable opportunity presented itself, we ran to our usual place in … Read more
There were two kites lying on the grass. Abandoned, almost done; the edges were reinforced correctly, the spars were taped down in place, the cover art just a couple of strokes from perfection – but the tails were missing, the bridle was not set yet, and they were both a bit crumpled. Say they were … Read more
“¡A lo mejor!”– Javi We were a couple of pints deep in Guadalquivir – well, in a discussion about Guadalquivir, having re-ignited the ancient debate of riverine salinity. It was late (or early); we were kinda loud while Javier was, as a proud sevillano, trying to keep a low profile, since we were closer to … Read more
This was supposed to be a poetic – or at least a not so informative – article, since we flew our kites here more than we care to count. We told you pretty much everything about this beautiful place in the Ljubljana Marshes landscape park and the river Ižica meandering through it. But … A … Read more
Cyclops were never cool. Κύκλωπες, circle-eyed, one-eyed monsters, relics of a strange and magical past, giants different and bizarre, quintessential Others. Polyphemus of the Odyssey was a Neolithic man, a pastoralist, dabbling in sheep transhumance, having nothing in common with Bronze Age long-distance trading farmers, artisans, boar-helmeted warriors. Cyclopes inhabit strange, scary, inaccessible places – … Read more
Ljubljana is a funny city. It is one of those instantly recognisable Austro-Hungarian towns that can be found all over Central Europe, from Lviv to Linz, from Brasov to Plzen. Cozy, nice, clean, clear, ordered, disciplined, boring, shallowly happy. But Ljubljana has a different feel – something southern is in the air, something Adriatic. Ljubljana can be seen … Read more
So, Caly the wiener dog had an appointment with a hairdresser. Since it takes a lot of time to further beautify the already beautiful wire-haired dachshund, Janez had some time on his hands – it was a windy late afternoon, and Ljubljana Marshes were calling. He went to the place called Ižanske toplice – “the … Read more
No, not that mushroom … and testing, not tasting … Dr.Agon – Janez – was busy with his sewing machine yet again, and, having a lot of rather suboptimal fabric, decided to make a simple mushroom laundry kite. We went to Ljubljana Marshes, to our regular testing grounds, to see how it would behave in … Read more
“I will BURY your kites!” – the bora wind, on Sunday Jesolo Kite & Beach festival is huge. Enormous. The largest in Italy, one of the largest in Europe and in the world. It’s an incredible aerial show with huge crowds, thousands of kites, fantastic flying monsters, awesome aerial masterpieces … … and we chose … Read more