In Awe: Jesolo Beach & Kite Festival 2025

“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

Impostor Syndrome: IKF Mangalore 2025

Why us? The Mangalore kite team invited a truckload of kite legends to their festival. Kosta. Bob. Andreas. Andres. Antonio. Axel. Jan. Claire and Dave. Sandra and Guilherme. Team Magnetik from Greece. Raymond, who drove his bike all the way down from Mumbai. The trio of fantastic Indonesians. And the Indian masters: Hanna, Rauf, Ashok, … Read more

Gujarat, Recurring

A huge problem the author had with this piece: how to write it without veering into pathos? When it became clear it is impossible, it was a bit easier. How could one write about friends and not get emotional? On the first night people from all over the world were dropping in one by one … Read more

Gujarat, Distilled

“It’s the alternator.” These are not the words you want to hear in the middle of the night on a remote stretch of a highway near Middle of Nowhere, Gujarat. “Please sir, help – push the bus off the road, ok?” So we did – it wasn’t even our bus, as Manoj would never let … Read more

Pirates Of The Wind: Kite Festival Sprintkite Cervia 2024

It was – tough. From the very beginning. Roberto said that unspecified consequences shall befell us if we don’t show up at his festival. Then the weather went all crazy with incessant rain and, for the first half of September, clearly illegal temperatures. Then the weather kinda backed off (it was still way too cold; … Read more