SZIV SZIGET!

From where I last left you I have...

Hit the zoo and seen bears for the first time up close!!

Had traditional Hungarian Goulash x2 YUM

Seen Snoop Dog live (10/10)

Crowd surfed to Sum41 (8.5/10)

Got up close and personal with The Killers (10/10)

Party rocked with LMFAO (7.5/10 - better then I thought)

Discovered a few more interesting bands

Finally got a taste for Unicum 

Tasted traditional Hungarian wine and realised I am a wine snob

Been to the National museum

Sziget was sick.  I can't begin to describe what it was like being at an international music festival - if you have been to one you will know but otherwise just wow you have to do it!!   So crowd surfing yeah?!  I did it!  Not only was I scared I was going to lose everything I had on me, my phone my camera my recently purchased Sziget hoodie as the weather was shit for awhile there, but how the hell was I going to get down.  After being separated in literally the first few seconds of Sum41 playing - due to being so close everyone decided to push and mosh !?!?! - I spent the rest of the time rocking out with the hardcores boom lol! Some English dudes who had spotted me alone ever so kindly asked if I would like to go "up" i quickly debated in my head - would people hold me up?- with nothing to lose (ok so I could have lost all my stuff but I am talking my friends had already disappeared I was only going to get closer) I gave them a "hell yeah!".  Two seconds later I am being thrown left then right up and down hitting people on the head with my shoes - apologies to those at the end of my feet - but I could not knock the smile off my face.  Wow what a view!  Crowding surfing my new fav!

The Killers: SICK!  Sick as in cool (P.W.Ryan 2012).  Blew my mind!  It started to rain just as they were coming on but that didn't stop us!  Right up the front we were packed in like sardines and they rain didn't really bother me.  It was probably more the guy in front of me who decided to throw his half drunken beer which in turn as he reached back ended up all over my face and hair that had me soaked.  Not that I could care less as i frantically tried to video message all the right people all the right songs as well as trying to record it all on my camera and boogie at the same time!

It has been a super slow start to the week.  The last day of the festival was on Sunday which made wine tasting Monday afternoon such a drag.  Hungarians drink a special kind of drink called froccs, which I am ashamed I am yet to order one here.  It comes in many different types and forms.  The idea is that it is pretty much a spritzer and I am trying not to be rude but it would make the wine (that I tried anyway) more bearable.  I can see now why NZ is raved about having such good wine.  The guy who took the lecture was chatting away about how Hungary wants to get a rep like one that NZ has for it's wines.  Yea I was giggling in the corner rooting for us.  Back to the spritzer, it can be 1 part wine 1 part soda water, 2 parts wine 1 part soda water and so forth.  It is ideal for the hot summers and lots of the people we are here with drink it too. We are heading to Lake Balaton this weekend so I guess the wine tasting was a precursor for what is to happen this weekend!

Farewell far away friends.