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1) Lose All Your Friends…
All the fun happens on one big big island. You bend down to tie your shoe-laces on the way from a Vietnamese Water Puppet Show, look up and your mates have disappeared. Everyone is wearing their stupid festival hats and your phone battery is dead…
All the fun happens on one big big island. You bend down to tie your shoe-laces on the way from a Vietnamese Water Puppet Show, look up and your mates have disappeared. Everyone is wearing their stupid festival hats and your phone battery is dead…
2) …and Make New Friends
Don’t worry. Some festivals last a weekend but Sziget lasts a week and it turns people crazy, which makes them want to make friends with freaks like you. Everyone is either drunk or on their way there, super excited about the best band ever that they’ve just seen, and want to make new friends.
Don’t worry. Some festivals last a weekend but Sziget lasts a week and it turns people crazy, which makes them want to make friends with freaks like you. Everyone is either drunk or on their way there, super excited about the best band ever that they’ve just seen, and want to make new friends.
3) Visit a Museum
No, not in steamy downtown Budapest, but on the island itself. This year the fest organizers have arranged a “Museum Quarter” where you can pursue outdoor installations and also get deals on reduced entry to the museums proper for when you make it back to civilization.
No, not in steamy downtown Budapest, but on the island itself. This year the fest organizers have arranged a “Museum Quarter” where you can pursue outdoor installations and also get deals on reduced entry to the museums proper for when you make it back to civilization.
4) Have An Exclusive Theater Performance
The friendly thespians from TÁP Theater offer exclusive One Minute Theater performances for each and every person. Important: make sure you are in a totally a clear state of mind before having ten drama students dance around you for 60 seconds, it could send you over the edge.
The friendly thespians from TÁP Theater offer exclusive One Minute Theater performances for each and every person. Important: make sure you are in a totally a clear state of mind before having ten drama students dance around you for 60 seconds, it could send you over the edge.
5) Mud Wrestle
By Saturday you’ll have lowered your standards so much that you might even consider watching R.E.M. If you’re in that state of mind, then you’ll also probably be up for drinking 10 Arany Ászoks and rolling around in the mud with your friends, pretending to suffocate them with your underwear.
By Saturday you’ll have lowered your standards so much that you might even consider watching R.E.M. If you’re in that state of mind, then you’ll also probably be up for drinking 10 Arany Ászoks and rolling around in the mud with your friends, pretending to suffocate them with your underwear.
6) Hug a Foreigner
Sziget is now firmly rooted in the brains of Europe’s festival-heads. There’s people from all over the place and unless you are one of those brainy students who speaks 645 languages the best way to communicate with all of the foreign freaks is to give them a big loving hug (then invite them for a mud wrestle).
Sziget is now firmly rooted in the brains of Europe’s festival-heads. There’s people from all over the place and unless you are one of those brainy students who speaks 645 languages the best way to communicate with all of the foreign freaks is to give them a big loving hug (then invite them for a mud wrestle).
7) Stuff Your Face with International Food
Yes, we all love Langos. Yes, it’s brilliant for breakfast when you have a hangover. But our bodies can only handle so much deep fried dough, so offer praise to the great Chef in the sky because Sziget has a wonderfully wide range of international hippy ethnic cuisine to munch on.
Yes, we all love Langos. Yes, it’s brilliant for breakfast when you have a hangover. But our bodies can only handle so much deep fried dough, so offer praise to the great Chef in the sky because Sziget has a wonderfully wide range of international hippy ethnic cuisine to munch on.
8) Experience Hungarian Literature (Without Hungarian)
The Hungarian language is a beautiful thing and it has a literary scene to match. The nice folks over at the Multi-Arts Festival allow you to experience the wonders of Magyar literature without the troubles of the language with bilingual literature readings of Hungarian works.
The Hungarian language is a beautiful thing and it has a literary scene to match. The nice folks over at the Multi-Arts Festival allow you to experience the wonders of Magyar literature without the troubles of the language with bilingual literature readings of Hungarian works.
9) Watch a Vietnamese Water Puppet Show
Are these people trying to put on the most mind-bendingly diverse festival which ever happened on an island? It seems they are. When people ask you “how were the Sex Pistols?” you can say, I didn’t want to watch tired old men pretending they were 20, I was watching “The Spirit of the Village” a traditional Vietnamese puppet show.
Are these people trying to put on the most mind-bendingly diverse festival which ever happened on an island? It seems they are. When people ask you “how were the Sex Pistols?” you can say, I didn’t want to watch tired old men pretending they were 20, I was watching “The Spirit of the Village” a traditional Vietnamese puppet show.
10) Get Married
There are special marriage booths, with officials to conduct the ceremony. For those of you looking to use this as an easy way to get Hungarian citizenship, apparently the union counts for nothing once you leave the island.
There are special marriage booths, with officials to conduct the ceremony. For those of you looking to use this as an easy way to get Hungarian citizenship, apparently the union counts for nothing once you leave the island.