Back in May when down in Newquay with Flora and Dave, I had a go on their kite. It was a two stringer and way more sophisticated than the "single string wraped in a spool that was big enough to fit your arm into and wear like a sleeve" system that I had known growing up. It turns out it was much harder to fly as well. I was rubbish. However, rather than just give up and declare kite flying childish and stupid. I took a step back and ordered a single string panda kite online. Some of you may have seen me flying it in Shoreditch Park. The results had me bragging about my awesome new kite and my abilities to keep it flying for more than 3 minutes continuously on facebook. Shelly, a friend from Bristol, let me know about the annual Bristol kitefest and suggested that, now that I was a kite enthusiast I might want to check it out. She was right!
Even though it was largely, almost exclusively geared towards entertaining children, a grown man with the beginnings of an awesome beard wandering around taking all kinds of photos and time lapse videos did not seem to bother anyone. Thankfully.
Also they had a cool shop selling bandanas which, I thought, would really complement the beard nicely so with some awesome photos in the bag, a new bandana and some great tips on how to fly one of those really cool 4 string kites called the "revolution" should I ever be adventurous enough to get one, I declare my mission to the Bristol Kitefest a success.
2 comments:
Dave,
I am pleased to see that you have decided to include your beard in your blog. As chief beard measurer (as seen on facebook) I look forward to reading more about the adventures you and your beard have.
Safe travels.
Sean
I happened to have the opportunity to fly a 4 string kite in the whitsunday islands, on a pristine white sand beach.. after about 4 seconds of training I had it down pat.. and fortunatly was not rubbish. I had that puppy doing the slalom back and forth, un and down.. the whole 9 yards.. does that make me a kiting enthusiast?
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