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sziget festival, hungary
sziget was better than we could have hoped for. It was the absolute most perfect festival. I miss the ambient tent, where you take your shoes off and lie in a tent covered in sarongs and beanbags and rugs and cushions and drink chai tea and sleep; the jazz tent, the night with the benny goodman band and when it rained and it felt like world war two; the roma gipsy tent; playing with clay in the pottery tent; shisha and sangria and henna at the afro-latin village; lying by the danube, sun setting on the last night; getting the boat to budapest and exploring, walking over the chain bridge and buda with its pretty streets and churches and galleries and pest with its huge long roads and seeing the mummified hand of st stephen which lit up if you put a coin in the box! and going up the tower and heroes square and the market and the immersing yourself in hot water and being spurted water at by gargoyles in the turkish baths; the open air theatre and dance stage; the lanterns strung in the trees that lit the paths; the travelling funfair with its mad fish in a box and giant skeletons; the supermarket and revelling in air conditioning and unbelievably cheap everything; map-reading and guide-reading; playing cards in the ambient garden; the last night and going on that bungee thing at 4am that catapulted you so high you could see the danube and budapest all lit up and the whole island beneath you and you felt you were flying the in the stars; the sun and the rain, the dust and the mud; the metro and trains in budapest, how the whole city is red and yellow and green; everyone being from all over the world, there being hardly any english around; etccc.
results were also better than I could have hope for, everyone got what they deserved, and now everything's about to change.