Yesterday we went up a near-by hill in search of a breeze to fly our new kite. We didn’t find a strong enough wind, but we did find good views of the London Eye and the Millennium Dome.
We decided to head off and find the Newbury Kite Festival at
Thatcham, figuring these guys would probably have picked a location for a festival where there’s likely to be a good wind. Actually, the wind wasn’t that great for us beginners, but we did get our kite off the ground.
The first picture, above, shows some formation flying. We saw quite a bit of this… all set to music, of course.
The second picture is of one of the music structures placed around the festival. It’s a statue with strings, and the strings sound as the wind passed through them. Cool.
We also saw huge parafoil kite (tied down to a car), stacks, kite buggies, kites fighting, and … that’s all I can remember.