Balaton Sound

Am sitting in a lounge, listening to some dj playing nice afternoon sun music. It's a bit too loud for conversation, but who needs conversation when you can just chill out, watching glorious lake Balaton - it's shore line just a few meters away. Apparently the festival is sold out, 120 000 tickets, and the party is on till late into the night. Vanessa, waking up at 4.30 last night, said that the music was still going strong at that time. We'd succumbed to our tiredness and crawled into bed (well, into tent and hammock respectively..) a few hours before that, after watching an amazing concert with Massive Attack, unbelievable. (I can't seem to find an exclamation mark on this keyboard, so you'll have to imagine them at the proper places...) We watched Swedish Koop from the loung at the back of the stage, having danced too much to Massive Attack to be able to stand up anymore. Later we could hear the remaining acts from the camping place, no need to fight your way to the front... The camping place is hard to miss, with tents so close to each other it's hard to find your own tent, a tip is to find a tree or some other reference point, or else you'll be lost - especially at night. And watch out for all the strings and pins in the ground, it can be a mine field in the dark (and with a few beers in the system..)
Lake Balaton is beautiful, apparently the biggest inland lake in Europe, and the sunsets are incredible. They go well with the music, streaming from four five places at once. The crowd is most part hungarian which sometimes makes conversation hard - my hungarian not being anything I'm too proud of.. and the hungarians seemingly being afraid of speaking english. A shame, but we've come across a bunch of nice people anyway.
The sun is shining with a untiring strength and just small puffs of clouds can be seen here and there in the sky. The tent is HOT but the lounge nice and cool. And should that too get too hot, then - like I said - the lake is just at our feet.
Vanessa and I are going to continue not doing much until tonight when there are some acts we want to see. Among them David Guetta at 2 AM.. And tomorrow we're leaving for Budapest to spend a few days in the capital.

PS. För alla er som undrar - studera.nu láter meddela att Elin kom in pá juristlinjen (hár kan man tánka sig ett utropstecken...) Kram

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