“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
As we told you in the previous article, IKF Mangalore 2025 was organised by kite flyers – the illustrious TeamMangalore India. Organising a kite festival is hard … Once a budget is set, the balancing begins. On one hand you have the kite flyers, on the other the sponsors and the crowds. If the sponsors’ … Read more
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
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
“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
So – were you as good this year as our kites were? Then surely Santa (or Grandpa Frost, or whatever chthonic creature of the night that judges you) will be delighted with you and shower you with amazing presents! Because this year our kites really went above and beyond their usual. Eleven kite festivals visited. … Read more
. Funny. These views shot with a camera attached to a kite are pretty much exactly like what our hearts see – and feel – when we stroll around this amazing place. . The island itself is at first sight deceptively unremarkable. Deceptively. Once there you realize immediately why the noble families of Šibenik – … Read more
“No.”Antonia, when we asked her to call us a boat taxi so we could go home Oh Prvić, the Island at the End of Summer, protected by mysterious powers of both Prvin the God of Spring, and the Ministry of Culture of Croatia – what song shall we sing you this time? The island is … Read more
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
“No, no, put the kite down …”– Patrizio, at the height of the kite festival in Urbino Imagine a kite festival – an international kite festival! – where kite flyers – international kite flyers! – play the second fiddle … if that. Where in the middle of the second day of the festival (usually the … Read more