Day 40 to 41 Sziget Festival Budapest

Posted by Magnus on Friday, August 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Long time since update, here comes some pictures from the Sziget festival in Budapest. Was a really awesome festival where I met a lot of fun people… I have realized I LOVE festivals…its like a completely different world! I was also lucky enough to be able to get a place to crash with two nice CS-girls so I could stay there the whole time 🙂

Afterwards I was supposed to take a flight to Sweden from Bratislava which turned out to be a bit adventurous. The day started with me not finding my pants so I had to look for them at the lost and found station at the Festival. This made me miss my public transportation to the city so I had to take a taxi. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough money and my credit-cards where empty (had forgotten to move money to them) so I only got to three kilometers from the station… then I had to run the last part with my backpack. I did make it on time though (thanks to my GPS who took me on the right route!) and boarded the train. There I put my alarm to bell 15 minutes before arrival and then I crashed to sleep (had not been sleeping very much the last couple of days during the festival).

I suddenly wake up from a lot of people stirring around in the train and realize I am at the Bratislava train station (I need to get a better alarm clock!). I run for the door but they close JUST as I get up to them and the train start moving… this is when I realize that my wallet has been stolen while I slept… (no worries, I had spent all my money on the taxi anyway and I didn’t keep any credit cards or something like that in it anyway…) but hmm… now I am sitting on a express train going away from my airport without money in the middle of Slovakia. At this time I had a choice… either I could be upset that everything was going bad and i probably would miss my flight, OR I could decide that it was a pretty cool adventure, where I was discovering something completely new and that I was pretty happy about travelling around… besides nothing would become better from being grumpy anyway…

I chose the second one, started laughing and joking with my fellow passengers about it who all became quite cheerful, 45 minutes later I jumped off at the next station (it was an express train) and found that I had 13 euro still laying around in my backpack. I managed to buy a train ticket for a ride back to Bratislava for 2.15 € and then the airport coaches cost another 0.50 € to the airport (love eastern European countries :-D). I managed to get on my flight and got a nice ride back into Stockholm from Skavsta by some cool guys in a cabriolet…. nice!

The ting tings playing