It already feels a lot like Sziget, as the first people have started moving in over the weekend and are roaming around the city to take in the sights- great occasion to have a first glimpse at how this year’s bracelets will look. Which is of course totally relevant and useful information. And as we wait for…
Tales from the Seventh Month
Since July is the seventh month, here’s seven things I learned (well not, not really, I never learn) this month. 1) No matter what I do, I always get delayed with the monthly random, because I am doing random stuff instead. Maybe it will work better in winter, when instead of randomly freezing…
Bits and Pieces of a Budapest Summer
I might have touched upon the lazy co-photographer of the blog previously, although he has somewhat objected to being labelled so, yet is too lazy to protest forcefully. He has however spent some time sorting through his July (and as per our joint observations, late June) shots and here they are in all their splendour….
Look Who’s Coming To Sziget- Continued
This could very well be entitled the post I just had to come up with to shamelessly re-share our old Horrors pictures and be all smug about having guessed correctly they would join the line up as well. I can also express my elation at this having happened, and my bafflement at them…
Pocket Trippin’: Hunedoara Castle
The Városliget in Budapest harbours the rather intriguing architectural specimen of the Vajdahunyad castle, an end of the 19th Century fever dream combining elements of disparate historical buildings from diverse Hungarian inhabited lands. While it’s not all bad in its entirety, it has always given me too much of a Frankenstein feeling to feel completely…
The Red Bull Air Race Post
Thought we’d let a bit of time pass before posting the Air Race shots, since it caused so much emotion among the dwellers of the fair city of Budapest. Many went into full blown irate mode cursing everyone from the local authorities to the maker of the known and unknown universes over the (insert…
Belated June Random
I love summer but somehow also feel exhausted by it, by the need to enjoy it while it lasts, which is especially acute in June around the solstice. In English it’s called Midsummer, though technically it’s of course the beginning of summer, but the fact that days start to get shorter after this point always…
Budapest Essentials: Katy B
Upon my arrival at the Margitsziget main stage, I was greeted by two slightly traumatic events: the intense smell of onion and a loud group of slightly drunkish and obviously sunburned Brits. The two sensory attacks then united with said Brits consuming the source of the onion stench, namely the kenyérlángos which later proved to…
Budapest Essentials: Blahalouisiana and Austra
Last weekend Budapest Essentials turned two, kind of the festival version of ’that difficult second album’, and well, it was difficult. For a still small-ish and unestablished festival it’s bad enough if one headliner cancels, but Essentials had the misfortune of seeing both La Roux and Duke Dumont pull out in the last hours before…
Visit to Velence (Which is Most Definitely Not Venice)
Landlocked countries seem to be forever in search of a sea. Since today’s geopolitical framework, to the chagrin of some, does not allow for much territorial rethinking, they have to make do with what’s already there. Enter the lakes. Since Romania has been blessed with a coldish, darkish, algae infested body of salt water-…
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