With this year’s Sziget Festival over, I’m not going to try to write some epic wrap-up piece, since I wouldn’t expect anyone to read it. So instead, here are some of the many photos I took over the previous week.
The barren wasteland of the main stage area.
The oh-so-shocking Dreher experience.
One of the popular poses at the festival.
Free vodka if she gets it into your mouth and not your eyes.
The trash-bin hippie king.
The only promotion with its own security detail.
And it was about 30 degrees too.
John Lydon took time out from selling butter to shout insults at the audience.
We found the one Hungarian camper on the island!
I wonder what file taste sauce is like.
The most impressive thing about Iron Maiden was the lack of wheelchairs.
Your sandcastle sucks in comparison.
Someone obviously forgot Belize.
I could think of better places to wash your dishes.
I don’t even want to know how you can guzzle a fish. Well, maybe I do.
Some guys also decided to pole dance for workplace gender equality.
Despite Alma Pirner‘s attempt, this guy kept this post family friendly.
Népszabadság could use someone with better English skills.
Kasabian, who really got the crowd going last night.
Muse, who I assume had the largest audience during the week.
A bacon, corn and cucumber pizza, with ketchup.
And the last thing you see before you leave.
Re: ‘file’ powder. Filé powder is ground sassafras leaves and is crucial to Louisiana cajun cooking. That accent on the e is also crucial!
Thanks, Elsbeth!
I thought it was supposed to be “vile” tasteing …
Bacon, corn, cucumber and ketchup??? Kind of wheel of fortune game where ingredients are chosen randomly or what??? I mean, it’s just disgusting that somebody prepared it, but even more so if you think that somebody else really spent some time to invent it. Just when Budapest got its first Michelin star this is a good reminder of real local culinary culture…
File is used as a thickener when you can’t get okra…which I have not seen here but I have strong doubts that this was actual Filé powder rather than a misplacement of the word fillet.
What shocks me is that even though Hungary is an “educated nation”, you are still pandering to foreign corporations for labor and technical knowledge. Can you imagine the fact that Hungary doesn’t really produce anything of value? Strange…
anything of value? just think of a festival that’s organized in August