Last weekend was spent in Portugal with Dani, Brad and Ronni. Thanks to Dani, we got tickets to the open air music festival outside Lisbon for 5 days. We had our tents with us to camp near the festival area. Finding a good camping spot (anywhere) was impossible, even a day before the festival started.
The trip was pretty cool, the camp site had lots of hippies, and people got really drunk to the point they were annoying. People woke us up one day with a horn at 6am, then the next day with a drum, and our last night I did not sleep at all, as there was a group of people just drumming the whole night, so that was cool to watch and listen to.
There were drums everywhere, the hippies brought their dejmbes and doumbeks, which is make me feel like buying a drum, so I am preparing for some money spending soon. There were even drums attached to seats in the festival for people to go and drum while sitting around the drum, pretty cool!
The weather was perfect, and most of the time was spent at the beach with the perfect weather, and then later on have lunch and then head back to the music festival at night. The music festival had some known artists, which we didn't know were playing, e.g. Cypress Hill, Pink Floyed (I think it was a cover bank, but sounded really good), etc... All types of music, dance, rap, reggae, rock, alternative, techno, really good mix.
The organization of the festival was OK. There were good things like handing out freebies, free transportation between the camp/festival area to the beach. However, the dirt at the camp site was the worst I've seen, and the toilets smelled really bad. The toilets were cleaned everyday, but people were usually careless.
Unfortunately I didn't take my SLR, but took photos with my Casio camera. The photos are here. I have some videos too, which I will try and upload soon.
Something I did not expect to see, which I really miss, is a steak pie! While going through the market near the Costa Vicentina, I noticed a shiny stainless steel oven calling me like mirage to a lost man in a desert. The pies were not as good as the dairy pies in NZ, but the best in Europe so far. I was their favourite customer for the next couple of days, which scored me a free pie at the end har har har...
Returning from beautiful sunny weather at the beach, I returned to rainy weather in Luzern. The weather was also random during the Blue Balls festival. A few Blue Balls photos are here.