Italy

Beautiful autumn road trip through the northern part of Italy, starting in Varenna, then via Bergamo and Verona to Venice.
Each of the four cities have its own beauty, amazing food and history.

Rome – birthplace of the western civilisation. Once you have visited the ‘eternal city’, you will be overwhelmed with its history, the archeological witnesses and the endless number of ancient buildings. You can almost feel the former power of the Roman Empire and you will get an idea of its rise and fall – and […]

Great weekend on Lago di Como at 414 Kiting. Two days good wind for 12m kites. We spent nonstop 4 hours on Saturday and 3.5 hours on Sunday on the water, doing the downwinder all the way back to Gera Lario! On that weekend, we did 140km in total – measured with Suunto Ambit3…..

Another kite weekend trip to Lago di Como! We were not so much on the lucky side with he weather and wind this time. On top of that, our car broke down on the Italian motorway in eh middle of a tunnel. We rolled unbelievable 2.8 km the slightly downhill motorway and could reach a […]

After months of persuasion, I finally talked a fearless bunch of IBMers into kite surfing! We spent a great weekend at Lago di Como and the three guys took a two day course. They all turned out to be quite talented and – who knows – might continue to get proficient!

First weekend this year on Lake Como. Great conditions and great company – men only with Thom, Flavian and Markus. Superb wind on Saturday, stron 12m fully powered, 4 hour session! Thom’s jumps are getting higher and higher, Flavian ripping with the Bandit and Markus fully in charge! A low pressure system on Sunday killed […]

Weekend trip to Monforte D’Alba to by wine at the Conterno Fantino in the heart of the Barolo area.

Another kitesurfing weekend in Italy at Lago di Como. The wind was okay for big kites, but eventually died off in the late afternoon on Saturday. To keep up the good mood, we pulled the kite with the zodiac and had some fun…