Sziget, day one: boiling at 25˚

A member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin is going through a check-up near the festival gate. This year’s festival has gathered representatives of every European country on the island and it can be noticed by flags over marquees and by the languages spoken all around.

Sziget has been organized for the eighteenth time but many things are new here. For example, McDonalds has opened here this year. It is probably the only place in the world where hamburgers cost twice as much as the standard price.

Now you can pay for services and goods with the help of magnetic cards and even magnetic watches.

Sziget offers you various opportunities (at various prices): you can get a massage, skateboard or learn to walk on stilts like Maria from the Netherlands.

Not all the musicians perform on the stage. This travelling Hungarian band has occupied Jimmy Hendrix Lane.

A girl from Croatia has the courage to get a tattoo. It will disappear by the next Sziget festival.

Even those who seem to lack opportunities to enjoy the festival to the full can do it. Wheelchair ridden people are watching the performance of Rise Against.

Frederic and Xavier will graduate next year. They are on vacations now.

On the whole, the number of pupils is only exceeded by the number of students at the festival. These teenagers say that half of their grammar school pupils have arrived here from Bruges, Belgium.

Paul Banks from “Interpol” looked downcast and seemed detached form his own performance.

Grey cardinal and New York guitarist Daniel Kessler.

Ben and Veronica are looking for lighters after the concert of the Austrian band “Empire of the Sun”.

Photo by: Dzyanіs Dzyuba