There’s always that one Sziget day you have to grind your teeth and accept that someone apparently larger than life is gracing the main stage for your own good and the happiness of others. I say your own good because it’s clear as daylight that the festival needs big days to pull it along, make…
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Of Sausages and Rain- Sziget Day Minus 1
I had been pretty impressed with the way the new entry system works, which did not seem to get clogged in spite of the ID check- people who’d gone to the island earlier in the day confirmed that they had smooth sailing up to the first top up point and queuing at one of those, well, that’s the sweet sound of…
It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Sziget
I’ve never been an ace at maths (except scoring awfully well at a machine placed test once, which was either a fluke, or a serious reason to doubt the efficiency of AI for the time being), so I always count the number of ’my Szigets’ on my fingers- suffice to say, by now I always…
Freedom in Progress
The weather has been decidedly tropical these past few days, actually, slowly, it’s becoming weeks, so basically we’ve been enjoying a rather tropical summer, minus those two horrid rainy days which obviously coincided with a weekend. But otherwise it’s constantly hot and hair frizzling humid so you’re constantly looking for ways to convince your body…
Of Musical Contests and Village Fairs
As I am a person who always gets her priorities right, I spent quite a considerable chunk of my time a few days ago musing over why can’t I get the Eurovision vibe this year. For I must confess to being a total Eurovision fiend, and a proud one at that. The idea of guilty…
Monday Pleasures: New Names for Sziget 2016
I will be frank and admit I had two main hopes for the new Sziget line up announcement, which seemed to be pretty much in the cards based on the traditional beginning of year festival/concert schedule watch, namely The Last Shadow Puppets and LCD Soundsystem. Both are returning after a long(ish) hiatus and kept filling…
The Elusive Snow on Sziget Post
If you follow and read this blog you might now me as the lazy photographer, as I was labeled so by the not so lazy other one. The thing is, I am not lazy I just take it easy maann. Snow on Sziget, it all began couple of years ago when we decided to…
Names, Dates, Numbers: Sziget 2016 is Starting to Happen
The other day, as I was idling home on Andrássy avenue, I saw the Christmas lights being turned on, and suddenly I went all gooey and mushy inside: ’Awww, there, it looks just like Sziget.’ While this might seem a bad case of getting your priorities wrong, I daresay it isn’t. Sziget’s night lights are just as pretty…
Island in the Fog
One of the most exciting things about going to Óbudai island when it is not ’THE’ island is stop in your tracks, intently stare down some bushes and ferns, and over-excitedly go ’oh, this is the Colosseum!’. You might even shriek a little to accompany your discovery, thus scaring stiff the occasional random dog or…
Sunny September Random
Since I have an innate gift for the inessential, here it goes: I don’t tan well. I try to console myself with the thought of some possible Celtic or Germanic ancestry, but the thing is, I usually go through the cottage cheese turns roast chicken then peels back into cottage cheese cycle. And nothing in…
Pocket Diary Budapest 