The Glorious Sky of Jesolo, Italy

We’ve had a kite club for what, almost 6 years now? We’ve seen a kite festival or two, even organised one, we follow kite flyers and kite festival organisers from all over the world – but this was … beyond anything we could imagine. A master kite designer, builder and flyer, Mr. Filippo Gallina, outdid … Read more

Where the Mountains Meet the Sea

Fold your legs, let’s roll … When the inimitable Sandro Macchi, KAP master, inventor, kite designer and a member of the illustrious 30 kite club from Genova asked us if we’d drive for 1.350 km just to fly kites for a couple of hours, we said – yes, of course! But we weren’t going to … Read more

Kite Adventure in Gujarat 2023 – Chapter 7

… in which we do some math, taste a tikka from heaven, follow some strangers into a dark basement, stage a home invasion and promptly meet a prosecutor, contemplate our sins at an ashram – and stare at the most incredible sight in the world. KAP Jasa – kite team Slovenia was invited to the … Read more

Kite Adventure in Gujarat 2023 – Chapter 6

… in which every rule gets broken, most things are white and salty, many trilobites fly, a few guys have a fight, and one well gets … well, desecrated. KAP Jasa – kite team Slovenia was invited to the great International Kite Festival Gujarat 2023. From January 6 to January 16 we rode planes, buses, … Read more

Kite Adventure in Gujarat 2023 – Chapter 3

… in which we dodge deadly obstacles, finally fly kites as we like, get neither tea nor coffee, witness a birth of a new life, ride camels, and enjoy an impromptu corrida. KAP Jasa – kite team Slovenia was invited to the great International Kite Festival Gujarat 2023. From January 6 to January 16 we … Read more

Island at the End of Summer – Part 3

“KAP” in the name of our kite team stands for “kite aerial photography. And after all the kite workshops (part 1) and kite flying (part 2) you bet we did a kite aerial photography session on the beautiful island of Prvić! Alas, as we learned in Part 2 of our kite adventures on the island, … Read more

Island at the End of Summer – Part 2

One evening while listening to poetry reading in a cozy konoba on Prvić island, a sudden realization dawned upon us: Kites are poems of the wind. … So let’s see what aerial rhymes the wind poets of Zmajoljupci – Croatian Kite Association and KAP Jasa – kite team Slovenia can muster together! After all the … Read more