Gabriele Steindl: Professional Kitesurfer & Freelance Writer - Action, Lifestyle & Travels
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Desert Sabbatical
Yeeeeeeeeeeew, it’s this time of the year: Days and days of packing, looooooooong hours — in fact days — of driving on endlessly straight roads, and finally: our outback paradise. Far away from any civilisation, internet… Just us, our bush camp, the whales, the waves, the stars, the sounds of the ocean, kangaroos, snakes, sharks, […]
My Film: “Wave of Life”
I’m suuuuuuuuuper pleased to present my film People who know me are aware that I gave up everything for kitesurfing almost two decades ago. For the ones who’ve never heard my background story, here’s the short version: Born and bred landlocked in the capital of Austria — Vienna — I had been dreaming of windsurfing, […]
#StayPositive – What’s your “why”?
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro 👣✨ I reckon most of us don’t know at the moment where the current path through this really strange world will be taking us. But not knowing must […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
I’m wishing y’all from the bottom of my heart: a very HAPPY and HEALTHY 2020 !!! I hope you had a great ride into the new year and that you’re planning on something exciting in 2020!!! May it be a trip that you’ve always been meaning to take or to learn something new, to change […]
NEW EXPLORER TRIP
I’m currently on a new explorer trip and it’s just E P I C !!! Can’t really spill any secrets for now, but what I can share with you at this stage is that the photographer Stephan Kleinlein and myself are hard at work and scoring yeeeeeeeeeew! It’s a magical place, with the happiest, friendliest […]
LIFE OF A GLOBETROTTER
For the ones, who haven’t seen it yet: I got a beautiful, brand-new article in the leading German kite magazine Kiteboarding.eu in which I reveal the lessons I’ve learnt in over two decades of traveling around the world, in tow my quiver bags full of toys to over 80 countries in the world! Most of […]
OUT OF THE OFFICE
I’m clocking out guys! It’s time for my annual outback mission…waves in the desert, camping, snakes, sharks, sea breezes, lots of fishing… nobody around and no internet, niiiiice a bit of digital detox is healthy 😉 Catch you when I’m back with lots of stories. Stay tuned & kite safely !! Yeeeeeeeeeew Gabi xx
COVERSHOT + 12 pages !!
COVERSHOT 🤘 — The April issue of Action Asia magazine, Asia’s & Australasia’s No.1 adventure travel resource has hit newsagents all across the globe. I’m stoked having a huuuuuuge feature inside the mag about a recent explorer mission to an incredibly special place. Plus, I scored the cover!! 🙌😄 (first ever “not kiting” cover of […]
I’m back!
I’m so very sorry for the long silence guys… I went through super tough, dark times… the saddest days of my life. My dad passed away on the 30th of November and I lost the ground beneath my feet. For the ones who follow me on Instagram, I wrote a little bit about my emotions […]
Follow me @kite_gabi !!
Hey guys, I’m aware I’ve been r e a l l y slack on my website recently – I’m sorry !!! Not an apology, but a kind of explanation for my long absence: First I went on a epic pioneering-explorer-adventure in September — stay tuned for articles in the mags in early 2019!! And then, […]