Sziget is one of the most friendly festival in the world. In 17 days there, I never witnessed a fight (not even from far). People are nice and kind wherever they are from (more than 90 nationalities were represented by their flags all along the « Peace Street », with Lebanon in front of Israel). Speaking of which, we met a small group of israelis at the flag party who called us « neighbors » and greeted us with hugs. During his concert, Asaf Avidan was affected by the presence of a lebanese flag next to an israeli one and made a peace speech. This is Sziget. Wherever it comes from, the crowd will be nice. Crazy nice, drunk nice, nice nice, whatever!
Camp Unknown
I explained there how I met them and what an awesome group of people they were last year. This year was as awesome. I won’t give names but I saw again people that I consider friends and I made new ones. The atmosphere at the camp is great: you got all these people from all around the world with one goal in mind, having fun, sharing stories, exchanging gifts… We went to concerts together, to the different partys (color party was quite good as everyone had his powder!), we drank sneaked-in vodka in watermelons and most importantly it was always friendly. I will definitely go back to Camp Unknown next year.
Concerts
The Sziget crowd is a nice one. I’d love to go to a mad concert in England to watch a big british rock band but Sziget was special in its own way. The only concert I wasn’t feeling good at was Avicii’s one, too crowded. But other than that, people are always singing, drinking, jumping everytime the singer tell us to. We sat down during Martin Garrix’s and other concerts before jumping at the same time, we fucking RAN during Major Lazer (can’t find the video), we went into moshpits (Infected Mushroom, Gogol Bordello, Foals, Kasabian, Knife Party). I don’t know about the other festivals, but at Sziget there were rules in the moshpit. Sometimes it got violent (Taj got a bruise, Rade fell, my ear got hurt…) but EVERYTIME if something happens to you (if you fall), they all stop, protect you from the ones that didn’t see someone falling, help you to get up, high five you and continue the madness. I really loved it. At the end of our first moshpit, a guy came to Rade and I, congratulated us and put stamps on us. I never felt insecure in a moshpit, even if there were drunk and druged and crazy people. Here’s the one where Pizzorno was yelling « moshpit ». The atmosphere was also really incredible during the end show.
Here’s another small video of Szitizen dancing during Gentleman’s concert!
![photo: [ Sandor Csudai ] . www.facebook.com/csudaisandor](https://backpacknstuff.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/szombat5-moshpit.jpg)
On the road
When you’re not doing some activity or watching a concert, you can wander on the roads and still find something interesting. While walking, it’s interesting to watch, hear and see people. You can go talk to them or just smile because they do something special. One time, we stayed up until the sunrise and while we were going back to the camp, there was one (drunk) girl shouting « good morning, good morning everybody, oh this is the most beautiful morning ». Many time, we would meet some people that would be surprised that we come from Lebanon. (Nederlands? Ahhh Lebanon!). One day, we met a group of french by invading a picture they were taking, and one of the guys looked like Imad! Everyday, we saw people with weird makeup, hair, dress… filling the island with wonderful weirdness. So many people that entered our lives for a few seconds or minutes but they will stay in our memories forever.
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