Pöttyös

Sziget Festival 2007

Pöttyös (I have no idea how to explain its pronunciation to English speakers but it sounds like ”per-tier-yursh”) :) It is one of my favourite Hungarian chocolate. In my childhood, they called it Túró Rudi which refers to the sweetened cottage cheese inside and coated with milk-chocolate. On the SZIGET festival they have their own ”territory” since they are always one of the festival sponsors. They held a lot of funny games in that area where also a lot of chocolate:) automated vending machines can be seen.
The laying girls try to force each other out of the circle wearing this huge red “balls”. Its a bit like Japanese sumos.:)

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Sziget Festival DAY 3!

augusztus 10, 2007 SZiGET

I wrote about Day One experience to the Sziget Festival. Today we went again by HEV (a hybrid of train and subway) but it rained at about 10pm. It is forbidden to bring umbrella, even if you know it will be raining. This is something strange to me :) Since we were near a beverage booth that distributes free hvg printed plastic sheet, we went to ‘collect’ one each for ourselves too. The strange design about it is that it comes with a slit in the middle (a rectangular transparent piece of plastic for you to put over your shoulders so that your head protrudes out?) Again it’s strange because we thought it is supposed to prevent us from getting drenched. But this ‘design’ means we will definitely get wet at least our face, head and hair.
The above photo is the Sziget wrist band (the entrance ticket) for today (in Hungarian Péntek=Friday) – It is in Khaki colour (while Day One was BLUE, and Day Two was Grey). More photos about the event on budapest-guide.blogspot.com, with more details about my Day Three experience on SZiGET :)

Sziget Festival passes for 2009 already on sale!

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Beer in the sunset

Beer in the sunset

There is nothing better then a cold beer in the sunset during a hot summer-festival:) Today is the third day of the SZIGET festival in Budapest!

Sziget Festival passes for 2009 already on sale!

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