We did it again! One of the most important task of a kite club is nurturing and spreading the culture of kite flying. So we were very excited when the Ivan Cankar Instutute of culture, tourism and sport in Vrhnika – a town some 30 km southwest from Ljubljana – called us and asked if … Read more
Zaplana is a hilly karst plateau southeast from Ljubljana, above Vrhnika. It is a remote, peaceful and wild part of Slovenia, where small settlements and lone homesteads dot the meadows, and deep forests are covering most of the hills. There is an ongoing effort to revitalize an old farming homestead, preserving ways of life as … Read more
As experts in kite making and kite flying (ha!) we were called to assist in shooting a video of a beautiful project: a virtual global kid choir under the auspices of the famous choir conductor Stojan Kuret performing a piece by composer Tadeja Vulc. This global virtual choir is composed of three choirs, a girls … Read more
Vinica is a small, cozy town in the extreme southwestern corner of Slovenia, in the beautiful region of Bela Krajina – White Carniola, perched on a cliff above the border river Kolpa that separates Slovenia from Croatia. While the town is sleepy today, it has had quite a tumultuous history … and so it boasts … Read more
So we are really into archaeology, and we are thrilled that a kite can be a really useful tool for discovering and monitoring of archaeological sites. Aerial archaeology has been a thing for a couple of years now, and we gladly jumped aboard the hype train – uncovering a Roman villa, documenting a prehistoric landscape, … Read more
Well, that’s not quite true, to be honest – we launched a cool kite project that will be the subject of the next post – but our last KAP session was on April 2nd … and we were experiencing severe withdrawal syndroms. It was an unpretentious, nice, cozy little KAP session on Ljubljana Marshes; the … Read more
This. An empty kids playground in Tivoli City park, Ljubljana – on a sunny spring afternoon. “Social distancing” is such an ugly – and wrong – expression… sure, we maintain the physical distance. But socially we probably have never been so close! Intricate landscaping north of the Tivoli pond We here are taking the measures … Read more
We are lucky. The social distancing regulations in Slovenia still allow people to go out – provided they do it individually and keeping enough distance. But … … we are lucky not just because we can still go out and fly a kite. We are lucky because we have you … our friends, kite flyers, … Read more
Ljubljana Marshes were once a vast and shallow lake, and in late neolithic humans came to make the lake their home. They built houses on stilts called pile dwellings in the middle of the lake, enjoying the protection of a difficult access and the abundance of resources like water, fish and edible water plants. Ljubljana … Read more
A part of Ljubljana Marshes northeast of the village if Ig towards Škofljica is a truly fascinating place … Mainly because thousands of years ago the Pile-dwellers lived here in houses built on stilts over the ephemeral lake. As much as eight distinct pile-dwellings were discovered here in an area just 1 by 0,5 km, … Read more