Pöttyös

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Zsolt

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!

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Zannnie

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

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Zsolt

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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Sziget Festival 2007 DAY ONE!

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Zannnie

Beyond words. This place is full of FUN! There are over 20 stages for live concerts throughout the entire island in Budapest. Mainly live concerts running concurrently by popular bands and groups! This is a yearly event since 1993, and finally this year I get to experienced being here personally. These guys were really great sport (they posed for me;) so spontaneously) click on this photo to link to my Flickr and you’ll see lots of photos about SZIGET FESTIVAL. On the Main Stage, Manu Chao which is a french group, rocked the entire sziget (sziget also means island) until there were two ‘bursts’ of black out! You can imagine how crowded it was >>I was almost ”crushed” being at the front of the stage where their fans were (lots of French were there too). And since I am so small (Asian) where all the other guys and ladies were mostly Europeans/Americans….but still it was totally FUN!

Here’s video of the Japanese group called Gocoo which I took on Day ONE of the Sziget.

click here: sziget festival 2007

SZIGET FESTIVAL passes for 2009 already on sale!

Halloween in Hungary?

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Zsolt

Day of Nándor in Hungary. Its an old Hungarian name which refers to the nation we called: Danube-Bulgarian.

This post was inspired by Kris. She posted yesterday about a flower store too and she mentioned that children were learning how to celebrate Halloween in Hungary lately. Its really like this…but somehow I feel something strange about this Halloween stuff.

When I was child until 1989 we celebrated 7th of November as the anniversary of the great soviet revolution which has started on this day in 1917 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). I do not doubt that it was (is) an important event for Russia but has obviously nothing to do with Hungary…

Nowdays we do not celebrate 7th of November. Moscow is not a “big brother” anymore we have to follow. Buuuut…we started to celebrate strange events I never heard about …..before. Valentine’s day and Halloween. Now it is rather for commercial then political reasons but still has nothing to do with the local culture and traditions here.

Dont get me wrong..I dont mind Valentine’s neither Halloween…they are very nice, “exotic” events to me. Even I dont mind 7th of November in Russia. But I dont like this attitude copying some cultures which we find “fancy” at a certain moment. What is going to be the next one? Will we celebrate Chinese New Year in 10 years pretending it is something we always celebrated just because soon China will be the “leading country”?:)

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